Safe Mode proves to be a valuable tool for hackers.Research published by CyberArk, a US cyber-security vendor, reveals various attack scenarios that leverage Windows Safe Mode to carry out maliciousRead More →
A Brazilian Infosec research group, Morphus Labs, just discovered a new Full Disk Encryption (FDE) Ransomware this week, dubbed Mamba. Mamba, as they named it, uses a disk-level encryption strategyRead More →
Research published last week by the Cyber-Security Research Center at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel reveals that it only takes about 6,000 smartphones infected with malware toRead More →
During the past few weeks there has been an increase in malvertising attacks, for example via a series of compromises of open source Revive ad servers which is still continuing. What’s interesting toRead More →
“The French Underground: Under a Shroud of Extreme Caution”, another interesting report published by Trend Micro on illegal activities in the Dark Web. The dark web is a privileged place whereRead More →
Eurekalert pulls everybody’s access after security breach.For many science journalists, a week would not be complete without one or more trips to the Eurekalert website. Put together by the AmericanRead More →
The security expert Issam Rabhi (@issam_rabhi) has discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability in Google France. The giant already fixed it. A security expert from French security outfit Sysdream, Issam RabhiRead More →
Next time a site wants your personal info, remember the ClixSense debacle. Plaintext passwords, usernames, e-mail addresses, and a wealth of other personal information has been published for more than 2.2Read More →
A targeted spam wave is infecting Windows computers with a backdoor capable of stealing sensitive corporate information from medium and small-sized businesses. Bitdefender antispam researchers have identified a couple ofRead More →
A hacker leaked a data dump containing more than 320,000 Financial Records apparently stolen from an Israeli payment processor. Another data breach is in the headline, roughly 324,000 financial records have been leaked online.Read More →
