PayPal recently fixed a vulnerability on its PayPal.me site that could have let an attacker change a user’s profile without permission. The issue stemmed from a cross-site request forgery (CSRF)Read More →
Misbehaving hidden service directories are scattered around the world. The trust of the Tor anonymity network is in many cases only as strong as the individual volunteers whose computers form itsRead More →
Softpedia spoke with Rebirth, co-founder of BinarySec. The Anonymous #OpISIS campaign seemed at one point to have slowly died out after the Charlie Hebdo, Paris, and Belgium attacks, but i isRead More →
Far too many otherwise intelligent and talented software developers these days apparently think they can get away with writing, selling and supporting malicious software and then couching their commerce asRead More →
The US federal authorities asked a 3D printing lab to recreate a dead man’s fingers to unlock his smartphone … will it work? Do you remember the battle Apple vsRead More →
The crooks behind the recent campaign may be from China. Over 100,000 South Koreans had their banking credentials stolen by crooks who leveraged the BlackMoon banking trojan, also detected asRead More →
Device was specifically designed for journalists. Infamous NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and hardware hacker Andrew ‘bunnie’ Huang have presented today at MIT’s Media Lab a new concept for an iPhone hardwareRead More →
Short Bytes: The founder of the world’s largest torrent hosting website KickassTorrents is now behind the bars. The cause of his arrest are the legal purchases he made on Apple’sRead More →
Android Stagefright like attack for iPhone, All it takes is a specially crafted message to hack your iPhone If you remember the Stagefright vulnerability in Android discovered in July last year, youRead More →
tl;dr: We found 6(!) different common security issues that stem from incorrect implementation of code hooking and injections techniques. These issues were found in more than 15 different products. TheRead More →
A new ransomware has been discovered by AVG malware analyst @JakubKroustek called HolyCrypt. This ransomware is written in Python and compiled into a Windows executable using PyInstaller. This allows the developer to distributeRead More →
A decryptor has been released by ransomware expert BloodDolly that will allow victim’s encrypted by the ODCODC Ransomware to recover their files for free. Though the Command & Control serversRead More →
Dell SonicWall equipment came with a hidden account. Security researchers have discovered six serious security issues that plague several Dell SonicWall products, one of which is a hidden account with easy-to-guessRead More →
Australia is being hit hard by ransomware attacks and we’ve heard a lot of security vendors advise against paying the ransom that cybercriminals demand to decrypt locked files. But RSARead More →
Delilah is the first extortion trojan that spies on victims and collects information to force them in doing malicious activities from inside. Delilah is a strain of malware developed toRead More →
In part one of our web shell series we analyzed recent trends, code bases, and explored defensive mitigations. In part two we investigate a new web shell created by Chinese-speakingRead More →
Sites exploited by SoakSoak bots give the gift of CryptXXX malware. If you’ve visited the do-it-yourself project site of Dunlop Adhesives, the official tourism site for Guatemala, or a numberRead More →
Library of Congress and Copyright Office also affected. The US Congress has just recovered after a three-day-long DDoS attack that has crippled its online portal congress.gov, along with adjacent sites suchRead More →
Increasingly, browsers are taking on a central role in our daily lives. With web apps for everything, we have placed our most intimate data on online services such as Facebook,Read More →
Malicious macros made a comeback in 2015 to deliver malware. Now we’re seeing phishing emails use macros in Excel attachments to steal sensitive banking details. In 2015, we saw maliciousRead More →
