The technical nature of cyber crime can sometimes obscure the fact that creating, using, and distributing malware, phishing kits and other threats is a business, albeit an illegitimate one. LikeRead More →
Short Bytes: The Tor Project has released Tor Phone–a privacy-focused and secure version of Android mobile OS. It’s based on Copperhead OS, a hardened Android distribution. Tor Phone also usesRead More →
They promised they’d fix the issues and they didn’t, hacker says, so this latest breach shows better security is needed. India is making the security headlines once again, this timeRead More →
Our researchers have demonstrated that because of lack of security in the Tesla smartphone app, cyber criminals could take control of the company’s vehicles, to the point where they canRead More →
Websites offering free keygens for various enterprise software applications are helping crooks spread the Gatak malware, which opens backdoors on infected computers and facilitates attacks on a company’s internal network,Read More →
An ongoing spam campaign is using boobytrapped image files to download and infect users with the Locky ransomware, Israeli security firm Check Point reports. aMalware authors are spreading malicious imageRead More →
The European Commission was the victim of a massive DDoS attack that brought down its internet access for hours on Thursday. A massive DDoS attack targeted the European Commission website, fortunately,Read More →
Criminal gangs like the Cobalt gang are now focusing their efforts on the banks to steal cash directly from the ATMs with jackpotting attacks. Security experts are assisting a changeRead More →
MSG acknowledges attack aimed at its payment systems. “If you used the credit card to pay for items at Madison Square Garden you might want to check your account balanceRead More →
Admittedly, that’s somewhat of a click-bait blog post title but bear with us, it’s for a good reason. Lots of work goes on behind the scenes of Kali Linux: toolsRead More →
Since its first appearances until today and surely in the near future, ransomware’s profitable business continues to grow rapidly, compromising the information of companies and users in order to requestRead More →
Will Dormann, a Vulnerability Analyst for the US-CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC), is advising Microsoft to continue developing EMET because Windows 10 does not provide the same protection measures, in spiteRead More →
Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab are warning of targeted attacks with InPage zero-day against a number of organizations in Asia. According to experts from Kaspersky Lab, a number of organizations in AsiaRead More →
Let me start with some full disclosure: I pay MailChimp a decent wedge of cash each month to send out newsletters to readers of my personal blog, and I’m quiteRead More →
CAUTIOUS COMPUTER USERS put a piece of tape over their webcam. Truly paranoid ones worry about their devices’ microphones—some even crack open their computers and phones to disable or removeRead More →
This article will focus on teaching analysts on analysing malicious JavaScript code within the HWP files and a walkthrough of how we can analyse .HWP files that was used toRead More →
Stampado is one of the many new ransomware strains we have seen in 2016. Stampado was first seen in the wild in July 2016, as one of the cheapest piecesRead More →
A researcher has released a proof-of-concept exploit for a vulnerability in the Network Time Protocol daemon that could crash a server with a single, malformed packet. The Network Time Foundation’sRead More →
In January, Motherboard reported on the FBI’s “unprecedented” hacking operation, in which the agency, using a single warrant, deployed malware to over one thousand alleged visitors of a dark webRead More →
Scriptless exploit bypasses state-of-the-art protections baked into the OS. Recently released exploit code makes people running fully patched versions of Fedora and other Linux distributions vulnerable to drive-by attacks thatRead More →
