THE WIFI REPEATER YOU PROBABLY HAVE ON YOUR BENCH
2017-12-27
Few things are as frustrating as a WiFi signal that drops in and out. On a public network it is bad enough but at home? Even if you can liveRead More →
BadRabbit Ransomware Decided to Avoid One Antivirus Vendor
2017-12-26
Security researchers are noticing something curious about Tuesday’s BadRabbit ransomware outbreak. Apparently, the malicious code is built to avoid encrypting PCs running antivirus from a certain vendor. Researchers at FireEye noticed the issueRead More →
Sednit update: How Fancy Bear Spent the Year
2017-12-26
The Sednit group — also known as Strontium, APT28, Fancy Bear or Sofacy — is a group of attackers operating since 2004, if not earlier, and whose main objective is to stealRead More →
CVE-2017-7344 Fortinet FortiClient Windows privilege escalation at logon
2017-12-25
A setting, disabled by default, enables FortiClient on the logon screen to allow users to connect to a VPN profile before logon. An attacker, with physical, or remote (e.g. throughRead More →
HUAWEI ROUTER VULNERABILITY USED TO SPREAD MIRAI VARIANT
2017-12-23
Researchers have identified a vulnerability in a Huawei home router model that is being exploited by an adversary to spread a variant of the Mirai malware called Okiku, also knownRead More →
Facebook phishers want you to “Connect with Facebook”
2017-12-23
As we edge toward Christmas, scammers are throwing their own party—in the form of Facebook phishing pages linked to and from bogus landing pages hosted on sites(dot)google(dot)com URLs. These landingRead More →
US capital’s surveillance cam network allegedly hijacked by Romanian ransomware suspects
2017-12-23
Charges filed against pair coincide with arrests abroad. Two of the five unnamed individuals cuffed this month in Romania on suspicion of spreading ransomware face US computer crime charges – for theirRead More →
8 Best WiFi Hacking Software And Analysis Tools You Should Use In 2018
2017-12-22
Security analysis and penetration testing is an integral part of creating any kind of secure network. This brings us to the WiFi hacking software that could be used for ethicallyRead More →
What I hate most about Apple slowing down iPhones with bad batteries
2017-12-22
A few days ago, an iPhone user discovered that his old iPhone felt slower because the battery was getting old. His empirical findings were later confirmed by a benchmark thatRead More →
Windows XP ATM Machine “Hacked” by Simply Pressing Shift Five Times in a Row
2017-12-22
Bad configuration leaves ATM exposed to further hacks. We’ve known for a while that ATM machines running Windows XP (Embedded version or not) are exposed to attacks, but when weRead More →
CHM Badness Delivers a Banking Trojan
2017-12-21
Like good old Microsoft Office Macros, Compiled HTML (CHM) Help files have been utilized by malware authors for more than a decade to sneak malicious downloader code into files makingRead More →
PROJECT ZERO CHAINS BUGS FOR ‘APACOLYPSE NOW’ ATTACK ON WINDOWS 10
2017-12-21
Google’s Project Zero released details of a local proof-of-concept attack against a fully patched Windows 10 PC that allows an adversary to execute untrusted JavaScript outside a sandboxed environment onRead More →
FIVE ARRESTED FOR SPREADING RANSOMWARE THROUGHOUT EUROPE AND US
2017-12-21
During the last week, Romanian authorities have arrested three individuals who are suspected of infecting computer systems by spreading the CTB-Locker (Curve-Tor-Bitcoin Locker) malware – a form of file-encrypting ransomware.Read More →
Facebook Is Disrupting North Korean Hacking Operations
2017-12-20
The company’s announcements came on the heels of the US government’s public accusation blaming the North Korean government for WannaCry. Facebook says it has discovered and banned some malicious accountsRead More →
Lo lo lo Loapi Trojan could break your Android
2017-12-20
Kaspersky has found what they deem as a jack of all trades malicious app they call Trojan.AndroidOS.Loapi. Like the Trojan AsiaHitGroup we discovered last month on Google Play, this malware can do all the things—it’sRead More →
Android malware posing as porn can literally make your phone’s battery explode
2017-12-19
A strain of Android malware found lurking on third-party application stores is so packed full of nefarious capabilities it can cause physical damage to smartphones. Security experts from Moscow-based anti-virusRead More →
Hackers take control of security firm’s domain, steal secret data
2017-12-19
Attackers bypass HTTPS encryption protection by registering new TLS certificate. A Dutch security firm recently fell victim to a well-executed attack that allowed hackers to take control of its serversRead More →
UK firms ‘stockpile’ Bitcoin to pay off ransomware hackers
2017-12-18
Ransomware attacks can cripple a business, leading to a rather sad trend in the industry.British companies are hoarding Bitcoin in order to pay off ransomware attacks capable of disrupting criticalRead More →
SSD Advisory – vBulletin routestring Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution
2017-12-18
vBulletin, also known as vB, is a widespread proprietary Internet forum software package developed by vBulletin Solutions, Inc., based on PHP and MySQL database server. vBulletin powers many of theRead More →
Face Palm: Windows 10 Bundled A Password Manager That Exposed Your Saved Passwords
2017-12-18
About 16 months ago, a Google Project Zero researcher found a critical bug in a password manager named Keeper. The bug allowed Keeper to inject its trusted UI into untrustedRead More →
