Mirai evolves from the source code of Gafgyt. A new trojan named Mirai has surfaced, and it’s targeting Linux servers and IoT devices, mainly DVRs, running Linux-based firmware, with the purposeRead More →
Not all malware is ransomware, even though ransomware hogs the spotlight these days.Keyloggers are still popular in the cyberunderworld, because they help crooks to steal your passwords. Armed with yourRead More →
Sundown EK fails to improve market share among fellow EKs. The Sundown exploit kit (EK), which has been trying to fill the void left by the death of the Angler andRead More →
Two Hong Hong government departments were targeted by Chinese hackers belonging the APT3 group just before the legislative elections. Security experts from FireEye have discovered a new cyber espionage campaignRead More →
This teenager hacked Sri Lankan President’s website to try to get the exam cancelled. As kids, we have done many things to avoid the exams like feigning stomachache or headache butRead More →
Short Bytes: Adam Laurie is a security researcher who works in the field of RFID technology. He hacks RIFD devices to look for any vulnerability which could be used toRead More →
Google’s Android security team has patched a vulnerability that left Nexus 5X devices open to attack even if the phone’s screen was locked. The vulnerability in Google’s line of phonesRead More →
While Last.fm informed users in 2012, passwords were easily cracked. The contents of a March 2012 breach of the music tracking website Last.fm have surfaced on the Internet, joining a collectionRead More →
Crooks use a botnet of CCTV cameras, one of home routers, and one made up by compromised web server. An unnamed website has been at the end of a ferociousRead More →
Donald Austin is the main suspect behind the kernel.org security breach that took place in the summer of 2011.Donald Ryan Austin, 27, of El Portal, Florida, was charged yesterday withRead More →
A new DetoxCrypto Ransomware variant called the Nullbyte Ransomware has been discovered by Emsisoft security researched xXToffeeXx that pretends to be the popular Pokemon Go bot application called NecroBot, When infected, the ransomware will encrypt aRead More →
In my previous blog about password stealing malware, we discussed how Pony malware steals passwords and is as big and rampant across the internet as any single ransomware family. NowRead More →
Exploit kits are a class of threat that indiscriminately aims to compromise all users. Talos has continued to monitor this threat over time resulting in large scale research and evenRead More →
Apple patches two new zero-days in OS X and Safari.Apple released today two security bulletins for OS X and Safari aimed to fix three vulnerabilities related to the now infamousRead More →
Attackers have been using social engineering to avoid the increasing costs of exploitation due to the significant hardening and exploit mitigations investments in Windows. Tricking a user into running aRead More →
Vulnerability is easy to exploit, hard to spot. A CSRF vulnerability existed in the core of the Yandex Browser that allowed attackers to trick the browser’s synchronization feature into sending theRead More →
Tor is an imperfect privacy platform. Ars meets the researchers trying to replace it. Since Edward Snowden stepped into the limelight from a hotel room in Hong Kong three years ago, use ofRead More →
Existing crypto software “wholly unequipped” to counter Rowhammer attacks. The world has seen the most unsettling attack yet resulting from the so-called Rowhammer exploit, which flips individual bits in computer memory. It’sRead More →
Recently I wrote about a supposedly new ransomware called Fairware that was targeting Linux servers. When a server was hacked by Faireware, it would delete various data folders and create a ransom noteRead More →
RAT is still in its early stages of development. An Arabic-speaking malware coder using the name Napoleon has released a new RAT (Remote Access Trojan/Tool) called Revenge, which he’s distributing forRead More →
