With the popularity of PokemonGo, it was inevitable that a malware developer would create a ransomware that impersonates it. This is the case with a new Hidden-Tear ransomware discovered by Michael Gillespie that impersonates aRead More →
A little-known feature of many modern smartphones is their ability to duplicate video on the device’s screen so that it also shows up on a much larger display — likeRead More →
ANONYMOUS POLAND HACKED WORLD ANTI-DOPING AGENCY AND COURT OF ARBITRATION FOR SPORT’S SERVERS’ SERVER AND LEAKED PERSONAL DETAILS FOR GOD KNOWS WHAT REASON! A Twitter account claiming affiliation with Anonymous PolandRead More →
Over the last month and a half, ThreatConnect has authored a number of blog posts pulling at strands of a nebulous Russian spiderweb of malicious infrastructure – one data pointRead More →
Scylex – “the next big thing” in terms of banking trojan. Threat-intel experts from Heimdal Security and the CSIS Security Group have uncovered a new banking trojan called Scylex, currently advertisedRead More →
Corporate cybercrime and information theft has become a very lucrative business for malware developers. Not only does it allow them to steal corporate secrets to sell to the highest bidder, but it canRead More →
“DiskFiltration” siphons data even when computers are disconnected from the Internet. Researchers have devised a new way to siphon data out of an infected computer even when it has been physicallyRead More →
Sławomir Jasek with research firm SecuRing is sounding an alarm over the growing number of Bluetooth devices used for keyless entry and mobile point-of-sales systems that are vulnerable to man-in-the-middleRead More →
The good news? Hacks are limited for now. The bad news? Hackers will get better. Security researchers are eager to poke holes in the chip-embedded credit and debit cards that haveRead More →
With the threat of ransomware hanging over every company’s head, does it make sense for companies to stockpile a few bitcoins in the event of a ransomware attack? Yeah, yeah, IRead More →
What do spies use to chat online? A terribly ugly Windows programme. At least, that’s what the Five Eyes intelligence alliance (made up of the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand andRead More →
Proofpoint researchers originally discovered the CryptFIle2 ransomware in March [1]. At the time, it was spreading via exploit kits (EKs); however, beginning on August 3, 2016, we detected the firstRead More →
A new Windows Activation scam has been discovered by Malwarebytes security researcher Pieter Arntz. When I installed the sample, I discovered that this PC Tech Support scam, like many others recently,Read More →
Scammers are hacking Instagram accounts and altering profiles with sexually suggestive imagery to lure users to adult dating and porn spam. Earlier this year, we reported an influx of fakeRead More →
“Off-path” attack means hackers can be anywhere with no man-in-the-middle needed. Computer scientists have discovered a serious Internet vulnerability that allows attackers to terminate connections between virtually any two partiesRead More →
Redmond races to revoke Secure Boot debug policy. Microsoft leaked the golden keys that unlock Windows-powered tablets, phones and other devices sealed by Secure Boot – and is now scrambling toRead More →
The security expert Rafael Fontes Souza has discovered vulnerabilities in the website of HP (Hewlett Packard) and decided to explain concepts of code review to mitigate the risk of thisRead More →
New technique makes malware detection almost impossible. A team of security researchers from Deep Instinct have discovered a method of injecting malware inside a digitally-signed binary without affecting the overall fileRead More →
A team researchers at Arizona State University (ASU) is crawling the Darkweb searching for zero-days for Proactive Cybersecurity Threat Intelligence.Can finding zero-day vulnerabilities be as easy as crawling the Darkweb?Read More →
Vulnerability common to devices routing IPv6; Cisco offered partial fix in July. Juniper Networks has found and mostly patched a flaw in the way the firmware on its routers process IPv6Read More →
