WHEN CYBERSECURITY RESEARCHERS showed in recent years that they could hack a Chevy Impala or a Jeep Cherokee to disable the vehicles’ brakes or hijack their steering, the results wereRead More →
New Gozi campaign targets Japan, Spain, Poland. The latest version of the Gozi banking trojan that’s currently under development comes with a few tricks up its sleeve, including an increased roleRead More →
There’s a fundamental difference between criminal hackers and white hat vulnerability researchers. When a white hat finds a vulnerability they may explore it, and write an interesting presentation about whatRead More →
Audacity and Classic Shell software downloads affected. A hacking crew that goes by the name of PeggleCrew has compromised Fosshub and embedded malware inside the files hosted on the website and offeredRead More →
Approach exploits how HTTPS responses are delivered over transmission control protocol. The HTTPS cryptographic scheme protecting millions of websites is vulnerable to a newly revived attack that exposes encrypted e-mailRead More →
Were 15 million Iranian accounts truly placed at risk?Telegram has fought back against researcher claims that Iranian cyberattackers have managed to compromise at least a dozen accounts on the secureRead More →
Bitcoin exchange platform Bitfinex is reporting the theft of what some users are saying is as much as 119,756btc — or about $65 million in cash. A Reddit user underRead More →
It’s no secret hotel rooms can be hacked into. One security researcher has now created a cheap, discrete device the size of a card deck that can open guest rooms at aRead More →
Macros have been used since the mid 1990s to spread malware and infect systems. Increased user awareness of the need to disable the macro function within Microsoft Word during theRead More →
Venmo has patched multiple flaws that could have allowed an attacker to steal as much as $2,999.99 from unsuspecting victims using Siri. Venmo is a mobile app that allows friendsRead More →
Researchers claim they can stop malware before it executes. Black Hat EndGame vulnerability researchers Cody Pierce, Matt Spisak, and Kenneth Fitch have created a defence framework to protect against deeper modernRead More →
Attack from the ’90s resurfaces more deadly than before. A flaw in how Windows handles old authentication procedures for shared network resources can leak a user’s Microsoft account username and password,Read More →
A hacker using the pseudonym “Peace” has uploaded what purports to be a data dump of 200 million Yahoo accounts to an underground marketplace called The Real Deal. The technologyRead More →
While many email providers, clients, and anti-spam engines have become adept at detecting spam, malicious messages sent via high-profile, legitimate providers are much harder to catch. Threat actors continue toRead More →
A new trojan potentially threatens as many as 2.8 million Android users with unwanted mobile advertisements. On 29 July, researchers at the Russian computer security firm Doctor Web published anRead More →
Short Bytes: Google Hacking is the method to access information that’s publicly available, but not intended for public distribution. Using certain intelligent search techniques, one can land unexpected results onRead More →
By mid-July 2016, the Afraidgate campaign stopped distributing CryptXXX ransomware. It is now distributing the “.zepto” variant of Locky. Afraidgate has been using Neutrino exploit kit (EK) to distribute malwareRead More →
Fueled by the lack of Pokémon GO in Brazil, a hacker group called OurMine took control of Niantic CEO John Hanke’s Twitter account today. Hanke and the development team atRead More →
Israeli experts discovered a vulnerability within the JavaScript that proxy PAC files that allows HTTPS URLs interception via Proxy Attacks. Israeli security firm, Safebreach, has discovered a vulnerability within theRead More →
In previous blog posts Liang talked about the userspace privilege escalation vulnerability we found in WindowServer. Now in following articles I will talk about the Blitzard kernel bug we usedRead More →
