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 →
Fifteen-year-old vulnerability comes back to life. HTTPoxy is the name of a 15-year-old vulnerability that has plagued several code libraries that make HTTP requests, and has most recently been found toRead More →
Company promises to refund affected users. Steemit, a relatively small social network, announced last Thursday, on July 14, that an unknown attacker had managed to hack its network and steal someRead More →
Office exploit kits updates drop support for CVE-2012-0158. Two newer vulnerabilities targeting the Microsoft Office suite have become very popular in recent months, as Office exploit kit makers have updated theirRead More →
Short Bytes: Apart from knowing the best methods to create a strong password, one should also be aware of the techniques used by hackers to crack them. The recent torrent ofRead More →
It may be a good idea to stay away from this software. The website of the Ammyy Admin remote desktop management utility has been abused over and over again by malwareRead More →
Chap responsible for very early nodes says ‘recent events’ make it impossible to continue. Tor’s annus horribilus continues, with one of its earliest contributors, Lucky Green, quitting and closing downRead More →
It’s not the next Stuxnet, says SentinelOne, it’s just very naughty code. Malware hyped as aimed at the hear of power plants is nothing of the sort according to securityRead More →
