In 2015, the FBI hacked Tor to identify users of child sex websites. Now, Mozilla is begging courts to divulge to it how the operation was carried out so thatRead More →
Maybe the FBI should team up with India because that country’s government says it can hack into Apple’s iPhones. Both think access to encrypted data in investigations is important, althoughRead More →
Is the North Korea behind the hack of a South Korean defense contractor? The officials announced an investigation into the security incident. There is a constant tension between South KoreaRead More →
The information security plan describes how the security is implemented, defined policies, controls and solutions. The information security plan is developed considering all the IT resources depending on the securityRead More →
Exploits exist for both bugs and allow for remote code execution. Windows users woke up to something that doesn’t happen every day: the disclosure of two zero-day vulnerabilities, one in theRead More →
White Hackers from Positive Technologies demonstrate how to exploit SS7 protocol to impersonate WhatsApp and Telegram users and act on their behalf. Both WhatsApp and Telegram messaging services have implemented the end-to-end encryption for chats inRead More →
The Bucbi ransomware family, which dates back to early 2014, has received a significant update. In a recently observed attack, we also noted new tactics used to infect systems. TheRead More →
The Check Point research team uncovered a new Android malware campaign on Google Play it calls Viking Horde. Viking Horde conducts ad fraud, but can also be used for otherRead More →
Whistleblowing is overshadowed when SQL injection gives way to unauthorized access. A Florida man has been slapped with felony criminal hacking charges after gaining unauthorized access to poorly secured computer systemsRead More →
Recorded Future’s real-time threat intelligence product allows analysts access to hundreds of thousands of sources that are normalized, organized, and searchable for analysis rather than simple keyword search. In thisRead More →
usually when you end up with a virus on your computer, you do everything possible to get rid of it. Over at the Internet Archive, viruses are being preserved inRead More →
Hacker dumps nearly 10GB of bank data online. Turkish hackers tweeted a URL yesterday pointing to a massive collection of files, which they claim belongs to UAE’s InvestBank. The hacker groupRead More →
Hackers demonstrated to the Tech Insider how to break into any office by purchasing from Amazon and eBay $700 worth of electronic parts to clone access cards. Breaking into aRead More →
Backdoors are typically designed to execute cybercriminals’ commands on the infected machine. As a rule, they are used to gain a remote access to the user’s private information. Recently, DoctorRead More →
New York (AFP) – The founder of an online underworld bank that allegedly laundered billions of dollars for criminals was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison. Arthur Budovsky, 42,Read More →
7ev3n ransomware appeared at the beginning of this year. In addition to typical features of encrypting files, it was blocking access to the system using a fullscreen window, and wasRead More →
.. but security researchers already cracked it According to security experts from Cylance, in the underground world of ransomware peddlers, there’s no ransomware kit better than AlphaLocker, sold by a RussianRead More →
Simple attacks plus user willingness to pay ransoms to get their files back means ransomware is on the rise, warn Kaspersky researchers. Ransomware has replaced advanced persistent threat (APT) networkRead More →
Lenovo Solution Center allowed attackers to get admin access. Lenovo has hid a crucial security update in an old security advisory from last year. The advisory details fixes for a vulnerabilityRead More →
A few months ago, we reported on a white hack against Dridex where the malicious payload was removed and an Avira antivirus downloader added. It seems that a very successfulRead More →
