New hacking tools arrive on underground hacking forums. The latest addition to the malware scene is a new set of hacking tools advertised under the OffensiveWare brand, available as rentable MaaSRead More →
Researchers for the new ‘Hacker’s Playbook’ analyzed 4 million breach methods from an attacker’s point of view to gauge the real risks today to enterprises. No organization is immune toRead More →
The DXXD ransomware specifically targets servers and is able to encrypt files on network shares even if they haven’t been mapped. Malware continues to evolve, the last threat in orderRead More →
The Signal encrypted messaging application on Tuesday added disappearing messages to its array of privacy features. Disappearing messages gives users the ability to designate how long conversations live on respectiveRead More →
At the time of writing, everything is back to normal. Blockchain.info, the largest web-based Bitcoin wallet, suffered a DNS hijacking attack today when users accessing the site were pointed toRead More →
The latest variant of the notorious Cerber ransomware family is currently featured in several infection campaigns, security researchers warn. Dubbed Cerber 4.0, the malware version emerged in early October andRead More →
0-days affect IE, Edge, Office, and Windows’ GDI component. aaThese four zero-days affect Microsoft products such as Internet Explorer (CVE-2016-3298), Edge’s scripting engine (CVE-2016-7189), the Windows Graphics Component (CVE-2016-3393), and OfficeRead More →
According to the head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director Yukiya Amano, a nuclear power plant in Germany was hit by a “disruptive”Read More →
France’s TV5Monde came “within hours” of being destroyed by hackers, according to the station’s boss. TV5Monde was taken off air for hours in April 2015. The interruption might haveRead More →
Watch how simple it really is to hack a security camera. CCTV cameras are thought to be the final frontier in protecting physical assets and humans against crime. However, over theRead More →
Publish primes with seeds, so we know there are no backdoors. Researchers with at the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) and the University of Pennsylvania haveRead More →
The security researcher Matt Weeks discovered a way to abuse the Microsoft Just Enough Administration (JEA) technology to escalate user profiles. Just Enough Administration aka JEA is a Microsoft technologyRead More →
I came across this nasty-looking script that hijacks your browser. It appears to have been around in some shape or form since 2014 but this latest version deploys an aggressiveRead More →
TURKEY has blocked access to Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive and partially restricted Google Drive cloud file sharing services popular on mobile phones as well as in education, business, legal and press industries,Read More →
On Tuesday we found out internet giant Yahoo has been playing flunky for the FBI and NSA, helping the feds spy on hundreds of millions of Yahoo email users. ARead More →
Magecart targets Magento, OpenCart and the Powerfront CMS. Over 100 online stores have been compromised with a new type of web malware called Magecart that secretly logs data entered onRead More →
As technology matures and microprocessors are becoming cheap we are starting to see a trend of products that are now ?smart.? The problem is that once we discover how theseRead More →
X.Org released patches and updates to fix several flaws found in many client libraries that could be exploited to cause DoS and escalate privileges. X.Org is a widely used open-sourceRead More →
Project Soli, which debuted at Google I/O in 2015, is a tiny chip that uses radar to detect discreet hand and finger motions. It was designed as a unique wayRead More →
London Police have continued to bag and tag criminals who installed malware in ATMs across the city, with the extradition of a Romanian man to the UK last week. EmanualRead More →
