In Flight Hacking System
2016-12-21
In my five years with IOActive, I’ve had the opportunity to visit some awesome places, often thousands of kilometers from home. So flying has obviously been an integral part ofRead More →
Russian Methbot Operation Makes up to $5 Million per Day from Click-Fraud
2016-12-21
A bot farm involving hundreds of servers and over 570,000 different IP addresses has caused losses for online video advertisers ranging from $3 to $5 million per day. This botRead More →
New Linux/Rakos threat: devices and servers under SSH scan (again)
2016-12-20
Apparently, frustrated users complain more often recently on various forums about their embedded devices being overloaded with computing and network tasks. What these particular posts have in common is theRead More →
Ethereum Cryptocurrency Forum Suffers Data Breach
2016-12-20
Administrators of the Ethereum Project have announced today a data breach that affected over 16,500 users of the platform’s community forums. Ethereum is the name of the platform on whichRead More →
Cyber-Attack Causes Second Power Grid Outage in the Ukraine in the Past Year
2016-12-20
According to statements from Ukrenergo, a Ukrainian energy provider, a cyber-attack may have caused a power outage in northern Ukraine, almost a year after another cyber-attack had shut down powerRead More →
Inside LeakedSource and Its Database of 3 Billion Hacked Accounts
2016-12-20
BY NOW IT’S hard to keep track of which companies have been hacked and which haven’t. Remember the FourSquare hack? What about Adobe? Even breaches that were high-profile at theRead More →
RansomFree Is the Latest App That Tries to Stop Ransomware Infections on Windows
2016-12-20
The team at Cybereason released today a new tool that tries to help users stay safe from ransomware infections. Named RansomFree, this application can help users of Windows 7, 8Read More →
Bettercap – Capturing NTLM Hashes
2016-12-19
As many of you who follow me on twitter will know, I’m a big fan of the Bettercap project. Created by @EvilSocket, this tool is a reimagining of the historicRead More →
It’s Now Commonplace for Android Banking Trojans to Include Ransomware Features
2016-12-19
The current generation of Android banking trojans are all equipped with ransomware-like features in order to lock the user’s device, and in some cases encrypt his data. Despite possessing suchRead More →
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur hacked by Cryptolulz666
2016-12-19
Cryptolulz666 announced another data breach, he hacked the database of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, the second of the country. Just after 24 hours of the hack of theRead More →
FBI Arrests Customer of Xtreme Stresser DDoS-for-Hire Service
2016-12-19
The FBI arrested this past week Sean Krishanmakoto Sharma, 26, from La Canada, California, for launching DDoS attacks against Chatango, an online chat service. According to court documents, Sharma, whoRead More →
Hack This: Where To Write Code
2016-12-19
The code itself, the symbols and strings that eventually dictate the behavior of a machine, is one thing, but properly preparing it and executing it requires a dedicated venue. YourRead More →
MICROSOFT PATCHES PUBLICLY DISCLOSED IE, EDGE VULNERABILITIES
2016-12-17
Microsoft today patched a half-dozen critical browser vulnerabilities that have been publicly disclosed, but apparently not used in attacks as of yet. The critical Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge bulletinsRead More →
Department of Defense Warns Contractors About Iran-Linked Malware
2016-12-17
Shamoon, a piece of malware that tries to turn infected computers into unusable bricks, is back. Earlier this month, a number of cybersecurity firms reported that hackers had used theRead More →
NAGIOS CORE PATCHES ROOT, RCE VULNERABILITIES
2016-12-17
Nagios Core has been updated to take care of two critical vulnerabilities that can be pinned together to attack servers hosting the open source IT infrastructure monitoring software. The flawsRead More →
Security Firms Almost Brought Down Massive Mirai Botnet
2016-12-17
Following a failed takedown attempt, changes made to the Mirai malware variant responsible for building one of today’s biggest botnets of IoT devices will make it incredibly harder for authoritiesRead More →
Home routers under attack in ongoing malvertisement blitz
2016-12-17
DNSChanger causes network computers to visit fraudulent domains. As you read these words, malicious ads on legitimate websites are targeting visitors with malware. But that malware doesn’t infect their computers,Read More →
Hacking Ubuntu Linux distro exploiting the CrashDB code injection issue
2016-12-16
The exploitation of the CrashDB code injection issue could allow an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code on machines running Ubuntu Linux distro. New problems for Ubuntu Linux distribution, the securityRead More →
Tordow Android Trojan Roots Devices, Steals Photos, Contacts, Chrome Database
2016-12-16
Comodo security researchers have spotted version 2.0 of a deadly Android trojan named Tordow, which first came to light in February this year. The trojan’s main feature is its abilityRead More →
$300 Device Can Steal Mac FileVault2 Passwords
2016-12-16
Swedish hardware hacker Ulf Frisk has published today instructions on how to build and use a $300 device that can retrieve login passwords for Macs protected by Apple’s FileVault2 diskRead More →
