For almost four months, script kiddies ran amok in one of Stanford’s subdomains, installing web shells, mailers, and other types of web malware. The infection was noticed last week byRead More →
A man linked to an auto parts store in a disputed territory of Moldova is behind the Bachosens malware, a backdoor trojan used in a very small number of attacks,Read More →
In what has become a welcome trend, today another ransomware master decryption key was released on BleepingComputer.com. This time the key that was released is for the XData Ransomware thatRead More →
The impact of data breaches can be measured in a company’s share price and customer churn. A data breach can have a significant affect on a company’s share price: howRead More →
The Fast-food chain Chipotle notified users a security breach, hackers compromised its point of sale terminals to steal payment card data. The Mexican Grill Fast-food chain Chipotle notified users aRead More →
Google has removed 41 Android apps from the official Play Store. The apps were infected with a new type of malware named Judy, and experts estimate the malware infected betweenRead More →
On May 21st, a security researcher who goes by the name Thyrex, received a message on a Russian forum that contained a link to a ZIP file that supposedly contained aRead More →
An eight-month-long investigation by Roman Unuchek, a security researcher at Kaspersky Lab, has uncovered one of the most complex malware distribution schemes seen to date on the Android malwareRead More →
The volume of 64-bit malware in the wild remains low even though computers running 64-bit operating systems became ubiquitous years ago. The vast majority (93 per cent) of new computersRead More →
Whenever I get a shell on a Windows system with VMware installed I feel a certain frustration at not being able to access the filesystem of the available virtual machines.Read More →
