“Side channel” in Haswell CPUs lets researchers bypass protection known as ASLR. Researchers have devised a technique that bypasses a key security protection built into just about every operating system. IfRead More →
FBI is asking for the suspects extradition. Following a collaboration with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Czech national police announced yesterday the arrested of a man on suspicion ofRead More →
Biggest credit card replacement in India’s history. The State Bank of India (SBI) said today it decided to block over 600,000 debit cards after rumors of a malware infection onRead More →
As we keep a tab on exploit kits, today we are looking at some changes with Sundown EK. Nowhere near as popular as RIG EK, this exploit kit still remains aRead More →
Even if you have an iPhone 6S protected by a 6 digits password plus the touch ID fingerprint it is possible to unlock it. 1. Introduction You have an iPhoneRead More →
VeraCrypt 1.19 released to fix 8 critical issues. The VeraCrypt project has released version 1.19 to fix a series of security flaws discovered during a recent security audit paid theRead More →
Spear-phishing and malware at the root of the intrusion.From November 2015 to June 2016, hackers targeted researchers at the University of Toyama’s Hydrogen Isotope Research Center, the University told JapaneseRead More →
Experts from the White Fir Design discovered cybe rcriminals exploited a zero-day flaw in an e-commerce plugin for WordPress to upload a backdoor. According to the experts from the firmRead More →
Newt Gingrich brokered deal for moonlighting contractor to hunt for potential breach. More records from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s review of Hillary Clinton’s e-mail practices have been released throughRead More →
Malware hides credit card data inside image files. Hackers are collecting payment card data from Magento stores, hiding the stolen data inside JPG images, which they’re downloading from infected storesRead More →
NRSC hack – A platform used by the National Republican Senatorial Committee for the donations was hacked and donors’ financial data have been exposed. Other rumors around the Presidential Election,Read More →
It’s been several weeks since the story broke about Trident/Pegasus and the vulnerabilities they exploited in iOS. There has certainly been a significant (although a lot less than expected) amount ofRead More →
Logins and passwords that match Netflix accounts have been released by a separate company, Netflix said today in an email to affected customers. I found out via email, as IRead More →
Who needs complicated malware when you have dynamite.Criminals like to use explosives to break into ATMs, rather than deploy malware, a recent European ATM Security Team (EAST) report has shown.Read More →
Sierra Wireless confirms that devices it manufactures were infected by Mirai. This week, the US government-backed ICS-CERT warned that the troubling new generation of computer attacks is powered by malware thatRead More →
Pork Explosion backdoor affects Foxconn-made devices. Some Android devices that contain firmware created by Foxconn may be vulnerable via a debugging feature left inside the OS bootloader, which acts asRead More →
Ransomware attack groups among the most frequent users of new tactic. Symantec has seen a major increase in the number of email-based attacks using malicious Windows Script File (WSF) attachmentsRead More →
In the first half of 2016 we noticed that Android banking Trojans had started to improve their phishing overlays on legitimate financial apps to ask for more information. Victims were requested toRead More →
The Exotic Ransomware is a new infection released by a malware developer going by the alias of EvilTwin or Exotic Squad. Discovered on October 12th by MalwareHunterTeam, the Exotic Ransomware will encrypt allRead More →
A Tweet posted recently by AVG researcher, Jakub Kroustek, suggested that a new ransomware, written entirely in Python, had been found in the wild, joining the emerging trend for PysomwaresRead More →
