Developers with the open source content management framework Drupal today patched a series of highly critical remote code execution bugs in three separate modules. If exploited, the bugs could letRead More →
Problems uncovered after employees walk off job with thousands of SSNs on flash drives. A report published by the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology today found that hackers purportedRead More →
The National Security Agency (NSA) has reportedly turned its focus on Tor and Linux users, having recently shown a keen interest in these users’ online activities. The NSA has goneRead More →
When it was released 20 years ago, the Sega Saturn was by far the most powerful video game console available. It was a revolutionary device, had incredible (for the time)Read More →
ATM transactions suspended in Taiwan for two days. Taiwan’s top eight banks have suspended operations on 900 ATMs after crooks stole NT$70 million ($2.18 million) from 20 branches across two citiesRead More →
Introducing vulnerability of the year: CVE-2016-3238. Microsoft patched today a critical security vulnerability in the Print Spooler service that allows attackers to take over devices via a simple mechanism. The vulnerabilityRead More →
The xDedic market has resurfaced, this time on a Tor network domain and with the inclusion of a new $50 USD enrollment fee. XDedic’s original domain (xdedic[.]biz) disappeared shortly afterRead More →
Tool only drops malware after painstakingly dismantling AV and other defenses. A campaign that targeted a European energy company wielded malware that’s so sneaky and advanced it almost certainly is theRead More →
Tagged as “Ranscam”, Powershell and script-based malware is a botched smash-and-grab. There has been a lot of ingenuity poured into creating crypto-ransomware, the money-making malware that has become the scourge ofRead More →
Freely available tool follows the release of more than 642 million account credentials. Over the past few months, a cluster of megabreaches has dumped account credentials for a mind-boggling 642Read More →
Tor has been the go-to for anonymous communication online for years now — and that has made it one of the juiciest targets possible to the likes of the NSARead More →
Malware developers are fast learners. They adapt to new security measures in record time and find new ways to evade detection or at least stay hidden long enough to completeRead More →
A new ransomware called CTB-Faker was discovered that pretends to be the CTB-Locker ransomware. It is a poor imitator, though, as instead of encrypting a victim’s files, it will move themRead More →
Vivaldi 1.3.534.3 comes with WebRTC IP leak protection. Buried in a snapshot version of the Vivaldi browser released today, there’s a crucial security feature that none of the major Web browsersRead More →
We should always think twice before running an unknown program downloaded from the Internet. Of course not every application is dangerous, but it’s all too easy to find a maliciousRead More →
Nintendo’s new location-based augmented reality game ‘Pokémon GO’ is hot right now. Like really, really popular—so much so that players are spoofing their phone’s location using VPNs in their questRead More →
Decrypter works with older Jigsaw versions as well. Security researchers from Check Point announced over the weekend that they identified a way to decrypt files locked by the Jigsaw ransomware, bothRead More →
Email address found used for registering C&C domain names for Lurk, Angler, and Necurs infrastructure. As many infosec professionals have initially suspected, there is a connection between the arrests madeRead More →
Hacktivists from Ghost Squad Hacker group made revealed the identities of hackers affiliated with the ISIS cyber army called United Cyber Caliphate. Ghost Squad Hackers (GSH), a hacktivist group madeRead More →
Almost 1.7 million users affected by latest breaches. A hacker who goes by the name of uid0 claims to have breached three websites belonging to Penton Technology: Hot Scripts, Mac Forums,Read More →
