A hacker, or group of hackers, has set off all 156 tornado sirens in the city of Dallas, Texas, on the night between Friday and Saturday, April 7 and 8.Read More →
The Shadow Brokers (TSB) are back, and they’ve released the password for the rest of the hacking tools they claim to have stolen from the NSA last year. TSB isRead More →
Nobody seems to know what kind of technology Trump was using during his airstrike on Syria. President Trump ordered a missile strike on Syria last night in response to aRead More →
There is a preconceived idea that malvertising mostly affects the Windows platform. Certainly, when it comes to malicious adverts, Internet Explorer is a prime target for malware infections. However, malvertisingRead More →
Rogue code aims to create permanent DoS. A new form of attack code has come to town and it uses techniques similar to Mirai to permanently scramble Internet of ThingsRead More →
Creator apologizes for a “joke” that really requires expert play to unlock files. At this point, Ars readers have heard countless tales of computer users being forced to pay significantRead More →
Brad Duncan, a Threat Intelligence Analyst for Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, has recently started seeing the EITest campaign use the RIG exploit kit to distribute the Matrix ransomware. While MatrixRead More →
If you follow the steps in the phishing email, you may end up giving attackers a way into stealing your identity. Apple customers should pay extra attention to the emailsRead More →
This article sheds light on the current ecosystem of the Sathurbot backdoor trojan, in particular exposing its use of torrents as a delivery medium and its distributed brute-forcing of weakRead More →
The investigation into The Love Zone child pornography site was much larger in scope than previously thought. Last year, Motherboard found Australian authorities had unmasked Tor users in the USRead More →
For more than a month, at least ten groups of attackers have been compromising systems running applications built with Apache Struts and installing backdoors, DDoS bots, cryptocurrency miners, or ransomware,Read More →
A new malware strain called BrickerBot is bricking Internet of Things (IoT) devices around the world by corrupting their storage capability and reconfiguring kernel parameters. Detected via honeypot servers maintainedRead More →
Short Bytes: There are good chances that you might’ve heard about Samsung’s Android replacement Tizen OS. Recently, an Israeli researcher uncovered 40 zero-days in this Linux-based open source OS. As most ofRead More →
An Indian developer is playing around with an open source ransomware builder, which in the long run may end up causing serious problems for innocent users. This developer, who goesRead More →
Embedding a shortcut (.lnk file) which points to powershell (accompanied by an encoded command) in a word document or zip file is a known sneaky trick to spread malware. TheRead More →
The malware can snoop on people’s conversations, act as keylogger, take screenshots, control camera and microphone. A new Android RAT malware was detected in the wild, and it is consideredRead More →
Security experts at CISCO Talos have spotted a new insidious remote access tool dubbed ROKRAT that implements sophisticated anti-detection measures. Security experts at CISCO Talos have spotted a new insidiousRead More →
Hackers are using a combination of low and high-tech attacks to make ATMS spit out cash, according to Kaspersky researcher Igor Soumenkov, who presented this novel attack at this year’sRead More →
It’s a well understood fact that platform security is an integral part of the security of complex systems. For mobile devices, this statement rings even truer; modern mobile platforms includeRead More →
Owners of Android and iOS devices should pay special attention to security updates released by Google and Apple on Monday, as they contain fixes for a series of critical bugsRead More →
