Clarksons, the global shipping firm, has turned the tables on criminal hackers who attempted to extort a ransom payment after stealing confidential information from the company’s network. The business, whichRead More →
FOR YEARS, AUTOMAKERS and hackers have known about a clever attack that spoofs the signal from a wireless car key fob to open a vehicle’s doors, and even drive it away.Read More →
We’ve been following the Terror exploit kit during the past few months and observed notable changes in both its redirection mechanism and infrastructure, which have made capturing it in theRead More →
The accused hacked 3 multinational corporations in pursuit of intellectual property. Three men who worked for an Internet security firm in China have been indicted on federal charges for hackingRead More →
Qihoo 360 Netlab researchers reported on Friday that they are tracking an uptick in botnet activity associated with a variant of Mirai. Targeted are ports 23 and 2323 on internet-connectedRead More →
Earlier this month, we reported how a Muslim hacking collective named Di5s3nSi0N was able to hack Amaq, one of the key outlets for ISIS propaganda, within hours after they called themselves “unhackable.”Read More →
Imgur, a widely recognized image sharing service most commonly used on Reddit, has revealed that it suffered a data breach as far back as 2014, and claims that it wasRead More →
Researchers at CyberArk Labs have created a post-intrusion attack technique known as a Golden SAML that could allow an attacker to fake enterprise user identities and forge authentication to gainRead More →
For many pentesters, Meterpreter’s getsystem command has become the default method of gaining SYSTEM account privileges, but have you ever have wondered just how this works behind the scenes? In this postRead More →
Air-gapped computers are seen as high-value targets, so considerable research has gone into taking data from them — without a network connection. Here’s what you need to know. Researchers haveRead More →
Trove included more than 1.8 billion posts spanning eight years, many from US people. A Pentagon contractor left a vast archive of social-media posts on a publicly accessible Amazon accountRead More →
We discussed the re-emergence of banking malware EMOTET in September and how it has adopted a wider scope since it wasn’t picky about the industries it attacks. We recently discovered that EMOTETRead More →
The US clothes retailer FOREVER 21 announced it has suffered a security breach, hackers stole payment card data at some locations. Another data breach made the headlines, this time theRead More →
Join us on YouTube or Facebook to learn how hacking works. Today we’re going to learn how security researchers work. Adrian Bednarek is a security analyst at Baltimore’s Independent Security Evaluators (ISE),Read More →
Powerdown the PowerShell Attacks : Harnessing the power of logs to monitor the PowerShell activities Lately, I have been working on analyzing the PowerShell attacks in my clients’ environment. Based on theRead More →
A group of researchers hacked Apple iPhone X Face ID facial recognition technology by using a 3D-Printed Mask that costs less than $150. On November 3, Apple released its new iPhone X andRead More →
“Protected by reCaptcha” means that a form has to be accompanied by a g-recaptcha-response field, which is then verified by the backend through a request to reCaptcha server. Based on the probabilityRead More →
Today we picked up new activity from an exploit kit that was first discovered back in August of this year. The Disdain exploit kit, simply identified by a string of the sameRead More →
Trend Micro spotted TOASTAMIGO, the first known malware that uses the recently patched vulnerability that ties with the Toast Overlay attacks. Malware researchers at Trend Micro have spotted the first knownRead More →
AS DANGEROUS AS they may be, the Kremlin-linked hacking group known as APT28, or Fancy Bear, gets points for topicality. Last year, the group hacked the Democratic National Committee and theRead More →
