Safe Mode proves to be a valuable tool for hackers.Research published by CyberArk, a US cyber-security vendor, reveals various attack scenarios that leverage Windows Safe Mode to carry out maliciousRead More →
A Dutch Computer Science student discovered the presence of a backdoor that could allow an attacker to silently install any app on Xiaomi phones. A Dutch Computer Science student, Thijs Broenink,Read More →
A Brazilian Infosec research group, Morphus Labs, just discovered a new Full Disk Encryption (FDE) Ransomware this week, dubbed Mamba. Mamba, as they named it, uses a disk-level encryption strategyRead More →
Research published last week by the Cyber-Security Research Center at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel reveals that it only takes about 6,000 smartphones infected with malware toRead More →
During the past few weeks there has been an increase in malvertising attacks, for example via a series of compromises of open source Revive ad servers which is still continuing. What’s interesting toRead More →
The Shark Ransomware Project that appeared in July 2016 has rebranded as the Atom Ransomware Affiliate Program, offering an improved service for crooks that want to start a life inRead More →
“The French Underground: Under a Shroud of Extreme Caution”, another interesting report published by Trend Micro on illegal activities in the Dark Web. The dark web is a privileged place whereRead More →
For bogus applications to be profitable, they should be able to entice users into installing them. Scammers do so by riding on the popularity of existing applications, embedding them withRead More →
Eurekalert pulls everybody’s access after security breach.For many science journalists, a week would not be complete without one or more trips to the Eurekalert website. Put together by the AmericanRead More →
The security expert Issam Rabhi (@issam_rabhi) has discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability in Google France. The giant already fixed it. A security expert from French security outfit Sysdream, Issam RabhiRead More →
Next time a site wants your personal info, remember the ClixSense debacle. Plaintext passwords, usernames, e-mail addresses, and a wealth of other personal information has been published for more than 2.2Read More →
A targeted spam wave is infecting Windows computers with a backdoor capable of stealing sensitive corporate information from medium and small-sized businesses. Bitdefender antispam researchers have identified a couple ofRead More →
Number of DualToy infections is on the rise. A trojan targeting Windows computers is secretly sideloading mobile applications to any Android or iOS devices the user is connecting to infected PCsRead More →
A hacker leaked a data dump containing more than 320,000 Financial Records apparently stolen from an Israeli payment processor. Another data breach is in the headline, roughly 324,000 financial records have been leaked online.Read More →
It is a good day when a ransomware programmer channels their noobness and releases an insecure ransomware. This is the case with a new variant of the NoobCrypt Ransomware that was discovered by security researcher Jakub Kroustek.Read More →
Shark Ransomware Project rebrands as Atom. The Shark Ransomware Project has recently rebranded and switched to a new domain in an attempt to start from scratch, calling itself Atom – aRead More →
Targets foot hardware and electricity costs of mining Monero coins. Attackers are draining the CPU and power resources of thousands file transfer protocol servers by infecting them with malware that surreptitiouslyRead More →
Bluetooth Low Energy devices like smart watches, “wearables,” give you up all day. My new neighbor was using AirDrop to move some files from his phone to his iMac. I hadn’tRead More →
High-pitched sound destroys bank’s data storage drives. Problems during a planned fire drill shut down ING Romania’s entire data center for ten hours on Saturday, in an event that looked likeRead More →
Everyone is a potential victim, even the wannabe hackers that try to exploit Facebook Hacker Tools to hack into friends’ accounts. When dealing with cybercrime everyone, is a potential victim,Read More →
