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 →
Experts at Cylance disclosed two UEFI flaws that can be exploited by attackers to install a backdoor on some Gigabyte BRIX mini PCs. Experts at security firm Cylance have disclosedRead More →
A cyber-espionage group that first surfaced in 2009 is using a novel tactic into hacking its targets by first breaching one of its cloud service providers, and then reaching insideRead More →
Metaspoilt can run on Linux, Mac OS X and on Windows. It is both a command line interface and a graphical user interface (GUI). The Metasploit Framework can be extendedRead More →
For this second chapter, we’ll do almost the same thing as for chapter 0: C strings & /proc, but instead we’ll access the virtual memory of a running Python 3Read More →
Japan plan to develop a hack proof satellite system to protect transmissions between satellites and ground stations with a dynamic encryption of data. Japan’s Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry plansRead More →
The Internet of Shit gets up close and personal. If you’re using an internet-connected vibrator equipped with a camera that allows you to stream your “pleasure” right to the internet,Read More →
Starting today, we’re going to run occasional round-ups of the other stories going on in tech that we couldn’t cover in separate articles. Twitter changes default avatar Late Friday afternoon,Read More →
An unknown hacker stole the personal information of nearly 100,000 McDonald’s Canada job applicants by breaching the fast food chain’s jobs website, the company confirmed on Friday afternoon. The hackRead More →
