A tool released on Friday decrypts PCs running a fuller suite of Windows versions. New hope glimmered on Friday for people hit by last week’s virulent ransomware worm after researchersRead More →
Windows XP wasn’t vulnerable to the WannaCry worm but still could be infected with the ransomware. Now there’s a tool to decrypt Windows XP machines attacked by WannaCry. French securityRead More →
We have found evidence of much more sophisticated actors leveraging the NSA ETERNALBLUE exploit to infect, install backdoors and exfiltrate user credentials in networks around the world, including the US,Read More →
BGinfo.exe older than version 4.22 can be used to bypass application whitelisting using vbscript inside a bgi file. This can run directly from a webdav server. My main inspirationRead More →
Steven Frank, co-founder of Panic, a vendor of Mac and iOS apps, has admitted yesterday that a hacker stole some of his company’s source code. Frank says this happened afterRead More →
Decryption tool is of limited value, because XP was unaffected by last week’s worm. Owners of some Windows XP computers infected by the WCry ransomware may be able to decryptRead More →
Yesterday, we released binsnitch.py – a tool you can use to detect unwanted changes to the file sytem. The tool and documentation is available here: https://github.com/NVISO-BE/binsnitch. Binsnitch can be used to detect silentRead More →
An Italian expert discovered a critical Improper Authentication vulnerability affecting the UBER platform that allowed password reset for any account. The Italian security expert Vincenzo C. Aka @Procode701 has discovered 7Read More →
It’s sad, but someone, somewhere on the Dark Web will now be privy to all your eating habits, or at least the one that Zomato knows about. For the uninitiated,Read More →
WaPo confirms long-held suspicions as NSA cyberweapons crisis threatens to grow worse. After learning that one of its most prized hacking tools was stolen by a mysterious group calling itselfRead More →
The Joomla CMS project released today Joomla 3.7.1 to fix an SQL injection flaw that allows attackers to execute custom SQL code on affected systems and take over vulnerable sites.Read More →
A California judge has found Yovan Garcia, a former security guard, guilty for hacking his former employer, stealing proprietary software, and trashing the company network after he resigned and leftRead More →
The telco giant Bell Canada was the victim of a security breach that exposed roughly two million customer account details. The long string of data breach continues, while I’m writingRead More →
Security researchers from Sucuri have found hacked WordPress sites that were altered to secretly siphon off cookies for user and admin accounts to a rogue domain imitating the WordPress API.Read More →
Yes, WannaCry is horrible. It locked people’s files and ruined businesses all over the world. With that being said, that doesn’t mean people can’t have fun with it. Over theRead More →
Just by accessing a folder containing a malicious SCF file, a user will unwittingly share his computer’s login credentials with an attacker via Google Chrome and the SMB protocol. ThisRead More →
The heap In this chapter we will look at the heap and malloc in order to answer some of the questions we ended with at the end of the previousRead More →
Today, the Shadow Brokers have published a new message teasing new exploits for people who register for a new membership program the group has announced for next month, June 2017.Read More →
Next time someone links you to whatsapp.com, make sure you take a second look. There’s some adware currently circulating around the web by tricking users to visit a ‘шһатѕарр.com’ domainRead More →
Identical code ties Friday’s attacks to hacks on Sony Pictures and $1bn bank heist. A researcher has found digital fingerprints that tie the WCry ransomware worm that menaced the worldRead More →
