InMobi ad network, which reaches more than 1 billion devices, settles FTC charges. A mobile advertising company that tracked the locations of hundreds of millions of consumers without consent hasRead More →
A new ransomware was discovered that is written in Python and targets theZimbra enterprise collaboration software. Reported by one of our visitors, this ransomware targets the Zimbra email message store folder and encryptsRead More →
The central banks of Indonesia and South Korea have been hit by distributed denial of service attacks on their public websites, with officials linking the timing of the attacks toRead More →
There’s something fishy about this botnet. Social media and advertising fraud investigations firm Sadbottrue has discovered a botnet of three million Twitter accounts, along with two smaller botnets of 100,000 botsRead More →
In an effort to develop a target base and increase the conversion rate of victims, ransomware perpetrators will try to veer away from well-known families and create new family sportingRead More →
We came across a family of mobile malware called Godless (detected as ANDROIDOS_GODLESS.HRX) that has a set of rooting exploits in its pockets. By having multiple exploits to use, GodlessRead More →
OurMine, the same group that hacked Mark Zuckberg’s Pinterest and Twitter accounts, seems to be behind it. Even the former CEO of Twitter isn’t protected from the occasional security hack.Read More →
We found a new piece of mobile malware, Android/Trojan.Pawost, that’s using Google Talk to make malicious calls. As soon as the malicious app is opened, a blank Google Talk iconRead More →
Users are now prompted to update to the latest version. Apple is now blocking older versions of Adobe’s Flash Player because of security vulnerabilities that were patched in the most recentRead More →
On June 1st, I reported an arbitrary recursion bug in the Linux kernel that can be triggered by a local user on Ubuntu if the system was installed with homeRead More →
Two mobile variants of Triada and Horde malware have been spotted in the wild by Check Point Software Technologies researchers who warn the latest samples have adopted dangerous new techniques includingRead More →
An unnamed hacker hacked the video conferencing software used by the Quebec Liberal Party and shared the news with the media. Politicians are a privileged target of hackers, in manyRead More →
The employee tried to cash in by stealing and selling the data of up to 1.5 million Czech customers. T-Mobile’s arm in the Czech Republic has uncovered an employee’s intentionsRead More →
Incident seems to be another ATO (account takeover) attack.GoToMyPC decided to reset user passwords after attackers tried to hack into customer accounts over the weekend using what the company callsRead More →
Lost info includes names, addresses, numbers and security codes. Acer’s insecure customer database spilled people’s personal information – including full payment card numbers – into hackers’ hands for more than aRead More →
Selfrando is an alternative to ASLR memory randomization. At the start of June, the Tor Project released version 6.5a1 of the Tor Browser, but compared to previous releases, this one alsoRead More →
DAO had just raised $150 million in record crowdfunding effort. A futuristic technology experiment appears to have fallen prey to a common technological risk, as operators of a new investment fundRead More →
Today the federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) finally published its exhaustive report on the FBI’s face recognition capabilities. The takeaway: FBI has access to hundreds of millions more photos thanRead More →
The Pirate Bay cofounder Peter Sunde says ‘Bullying is the new Black’ after being fined $395,000 in damages to media companies The Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde has been orderedRead More →
How do companies regardless of size and industry prepare for ransomware attacks? A recent study revealed that businesses are considering saving up Bitcoins, just in case they get hit by theseRead More →
