For a little over a month, researchers and previous victims have been quietly helping TeslaCrypt victims get their files back using a flaw in the TeslaCrypt’s encryption key storage algorithm. The information thatRead More →
Nasty trojan found in the Android OS system loader. Some Phillips s307 Android smartphones come with a pre-installed trojan (Android.Cooee.1) that shows ads and animations on the user’s main screen, andRead More →
Intel-powered laptops are safe again. So are desktops. Intel has released version 2.4 of the Intel Driver Update Utility, fixing a critical security flaw (CVE-2016-1493) that enabled attackers to interceptRead More →
Cyber-crooks secretly develop new Asacub Android malware, deploy it for the first time this Christmas. Over the past six months, security experts from Kaspersky have observed the slow evolution of theRead More →
Exploit takes a long time to cook Windows, but gives hackers a menu of evil options. Shmoocon Foxglove Security bod Stephen Breen has strung together dusty unpatched Windows vulnerabilities toRead More →
Steam scammer caught red-handed by Panda Security researcher. A crafty Steam user created four Chrome extensions that would empty out his victim’s Steam inventory and send all their game perks toRead More →
Short Bytes: If you are interested in increasing the security and privacy of your network traffic, here’s a great news for you. Facebook has just rolled out experimental TOR supportRead More →
A new zero-day vulnerability allows Android or Linux applications to escalate privileges. Security researchers have discovered a new zero-day vulnerability in Linux kernel that affects both the Linux operating system and theRead More →
A new archive containing alleged voting records of millions of US citizens is available on a hidden service on the dark web. Joseph Fox from Motherboard discovered alleged voting recordsRead More →
Dr.Web, a Russian antivirus maker, has detected a new threat against Linux users, the Linux.Ekocms.1 trojan, which includes special features that allow it to take screengrabs and record audio. DiscoveredRead More →
Walmart-owned store patches hole, but it was open for nearly 2 years. Retailer Asda dragged its heels for nearly two years before finally this week tackling a set of securityRead More →
A new variant of the infamous Tinba banking trojan has emerged in the wild and is targeting financial institutions in the Asia Pacific region. Even small threats can scare theRead More →
Finnish fellow scores $10k bug bounty for reporting malformed HTML mess. Video A stored XSS vuln in Yahoo! Mail has netted Finnish researcher Jouko Pynnönen of Klikki a US$10,000 bugRead More →
At some point over the weekend, the official website of Belinda Carlisle was compromised, displaying banner ads for a Canadian Pharmacy page. Here’s the Google search result for “Belinda Carlisle”Read More →
This is how a $30 D-Link webcam can be converted into a backdoor. Researchers at US security firm Vectra Networks have hacked a ‘tiny’ D-Link web camera and demonstrated how it canRead More →
In the summer of 2014, anonymous hackers flooded the internet with private nude photos of major (and minor) celebrities. Two years later, new details show the FBI thinks they identifiedRead More →
New interesting revelation about the Stuxnet attack published by The New York Times, a must read for experts. The popular cyber security expert Mikko Hypponen has published an interesting blogRead More →
Ukrainian Government is accusing Russia of organizing hacker attacks against the Boryspil airport’s networks. Cyber security experts of the State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine areRead More →
This article looks at how an attacker can intercept and read emails sent from one email provider to another by performing a DNS MX record hijacking attack. While our researchRead More →
Over the years, I have written many articles here on Null Byte chronicling the many the hacks of the NSA, including the recent hack of the Juniper Networks VPN. (ByRead More →
