Short Bytes: Adam Laurie is a security researcher who works in the field of RFID technology. He hacks RIFD devices to look for any vulnerability which could be used toRead More →
While Last.fm informed users in 2012, passwords were easily cracked. The contents of a March 2012 breach of the music tracking website Last.fm have surfaced on the Internet, joining a collectionRead More →
In my previous blog about password stealing malware, we discussed how Pony malware steals passwords and is as big and rampant across the internet as any single ransomware family. NowRead More →
Exploit kits are a class of threat that indiscriminately aims to compromise all users. Talos has continued to monitor this threat over time resulting in large scale research and evenRead More →
Attackers have been using social engineering to avoid the increasing costs of exploitation due to the significant hardening and exploit mitigations investments in Windows. Tricking a user into running aRead More →
Vulnerability is easy to exploit, hard to spot. A CSRF vulnerability existed in the core of the Yandex Browser that allowed attackers to trick the browser’s synchronization feature into sending theRead More →
Existing crypto software “wholly unequipped” to counter Rowhammer attacks. The world has seen the most unsettling attack yet resulting from the so-called Rowhammer exploit, which flips individual bits in computer memory. It’sRead More →
Recently I wrote about a supposedly new ransomware called Fairware that was targeting Linux servers. When a server was hacked by Faireware, it would delete various data folders and create a ransom noteRead More →
RAT is still in its early stages of development. An Arabic-speaking malware coder using the name Napoleon has released a new RAT (Remote Access Trojan/Tool) called Revenge, which he’s distributing forRead More →
Hackers have stolen over 60 million account details for online cloud storage platform Dropbox. Although the accounts were stolen during a previously disclosed breach, and Dropbox says it has alreadyRead More →
