Symantec is currently investigating reports of yet another new attack in the Middle East involving the destructive disk-wiping malware used by the Shamoon group (W32.Disttrack, W32.Disttrack.B). Similar to previous attacks,Read More →
Group responsible for carrying out highly-sophisticated attacks against banks ATMs. Five members of an international organised cybercrime group have been arrested and three of them convicted so far as aRead More →
At the end of last year, Mozilla hurriedly patched a zero-day vulnerability for Firefox that had been used against targets in the wild. Shortly after, Motherboard found that the relatedRead More →
LeakedSource garnered criticism for actively cracking the passwords it sold. LeakedSource, a legally and ethically questionable website that sold access to a database of more than 3.1 billion compromised accountRead More →
Short Bytes: Pattern lock on Android smartphones is probably the quickest and easiest way to gain access to the device. A group of researchers has a created a computer visionRead More →
Security researchers have uncovered a new trojan that targets Linux devices that is capable of transforming infected machines into proxy servers and relay malicious traffic, hiding the true origin ofRead More →
Over 200,000 messages were compromised due to a security flaw. One of the largest trading posts on the Dark Web, AlphaBay, has rewarded a researcher for disclosing the existence ofRead More →
Security researcher Sebastian Krahmer has recently discovered that a previously known security flaw in the systemd project can be used for more than crashing a Linux distro but also toRead More →
An unknown hacker is accessing public and unsecured Apache Cassandra databases and adding an extra table through which it warns server owners that their DB was left exposed to onlineRead More →
The censorship state wants to enforce government control over software which can circumvent China’s Great Firewall. The Chinese government has launched a fresh campaign to take down and control censorship-thwartingRead More →
