The security researcher Kafeine confirmed that the authors of the Angler EK have integrated the exploit for a recently patched Microsoft Silverlight vulnerability. Ransomware is becoming one of the most dreaded cyberRead More →
Survey, YouTube offer proof that people are blowing up ATMs to get the cash inside. What was the best way to steal cash from an ATM in 2015? Skimming stillRead More →
Journalist gets hacked while writing the FBI vs Apple iPhone hack story. The recent United States court’s order to Apple for hack San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone and providing a backdoor forRead More →
The security expert Troy Hunt discovered that it is possible to remotely control features of a Nissan Leaf via API. The popular security expert Troy Hunt discovered a security vulnerability affectingRead More →
Limited power to eavesdrop contrasts painfully with UK’s far-ranging Snooper’s Charter. German police are now permitted to infect a suspect’s computers, and mobile devices with special trojan software to monitorRead More →
Ricochet is the most secure encrypted anonymous messenger that sends no metadata. The security experts have approved a new internet messaging tool that bypasses the federal government’s metadata collection systemRead More →
Google and security firm Red Hat have discovered a critical security flaw in the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS) that affects a library in a universally used protocol. This meansRead More →
Researchers blow the lid on one of the most dangerous and well-organized cyber-espionage groups around. Only after four different cyber-security firms teamed up, did security analysts manage to understand howRead More →
Over 4,000 branches and 13,000 ATMs were targeted through a massive phishing campaign. Customers of ICICI, India’s largest private bank, have become targets in a phishing campaign tailored to dupeRead More →
Mousejack attack – Researchers at Bastille firm demonstrated how to hack computers by exploiting a flaw in many wireless mouse and keyboard dongles. A bogus wireless computer mice and keyboards canRead More →
Attackers used legitimate tools on mobile devices to create variants of Android.Lockdroid.E. Symantec has seen several variants of a known ransomware family (Android.Lockdroid.E) that were developed on Android devices using theRead More →
Exploits for a vulnerability in Microsoft Silverlight have found their way into the dangerous Angler Exploit Kit a little more than a month after it was patched. French security researcherRead More →
Anonymous hacked the CIMD portal managed by the France’s Ministry of Defense to protest against French foreign arms trade operations. The Anonymous collective has hacked one of the websites managedRead More →
Six years ago, the cyber-attacks barely reached 25,000. Utah officials are saying that the number of cyber-attacks they’ve seen against local state organizations has grown exponentially in the past six years.Read More →
Acecard evolved from a simple information stealer to the most sophisticated Android banking trojan ever seen. The Android malware scene has a new top threat if we are to believe theRead More →
Employees at six Russian banks were sent spoofed emails delivering Trojan.Ratopak in a narrow, targeted attack. In December 2015, employees from several Russian banks were targeted with spoofed emails, aRead More →
Some Tor servers may leak timezone info via gzipped files. Jose Carlos Norte, developer for the eyeOS virtual desktop project, has discovered an obscure setting in the HTTP GZIP compression formatRead More →
Operators running websites based on the WordPress and Joomla must be aware of a spike in the number of compromised platforms used in Admedia attacks. Not only WordPress CMS, threatRead More →
Part of the point in presenting small, hack-minded tutorials a la “Edit an Image in Python” or “Send an Email from Python” is that some subset of readers who actuallyRead More →
Anonymous launched a series of cyber attacks against government websites of Saudi Arabia to protest the execution of 47 people, including Mr. Sheikh Nimr Al Nimr. The Anonymous collective isRead More →
