Log wipers, timestompers may have helped hackers stay quiet in terabyte raids. Damballa researchers Willis McDonald and Loucif Kharouni say the attackers who flayed Sony Pictures with disk-cleansing malware mayRead More →
We have received a lot of reports about a new ransomware that we are calling CryptInfinite based on the Windows Registry key created by this ransomware. Other sites have also been calling this ransomware DecryptorMaxRead More →
Hacking group remains as focused as one week ago Quite a lot has happened after Anonymous declared cyber-war on ISIS members last weekend, but now, after a week passed fromRead More →
ONLINE AD NETWORKS and search engines love it when you surf around. Everything you do—every page you load, every query you type—helps them build a profile of you, the betterRead More →
VMware has patched an information disclosure vulnerability affecting a number of its products that use Flex BlazeDS. The original vulnerability was discovered and disclosed in August by Matthias Kaiser ofRead More →
Rohit Jawa fools officer into revealing personal details. Police officers investigating an eBay scammer must have been very surprised when the criminal, in a bold act of courage, stole their identitiesRead More →
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc said payment systems at 54 of its hotels in North America had been infected with a malware designed to collect payment card data. ARead More →
Even factory reset cannot smite the foulness that is Shedun. Michael Bentley of security-through-analytics outfit Lookout has found android malware that does not require user permission to install. Bentley, Lookout’sRead More →
Developers at LinkedIn fixed a persistent cross site scripting vulnerability in the social network this week that could have been exploited to spread a worm on the service’s help forums.Read More →
Brazilian whacks Arris for easy-t-o-guess default password, fix promised fast. Security bod Bernardo Rodrigues has found a backdoor-within-a-backdoor affecting some 600,000 Arris cable modems. The broadband kit company said, inRead More →
In this post, we will take a high and low-level look at the Pony Trojan, delivered through a recent spam campaign. During our case study we showed some malicious samples being distributed in spamRead More →
Mac malware is a thing. It’s real. Granted it hasn’t reached the critical mass of malicious code for Windows, but recent encounters with WireLurker, XcodeGhost and YiSpecter among others haveRead More →
How dare they demand we do exactly what we demand of them! The foreign rotters. A report laid before the US Congress yesterday encouraged lawmakers to allow American companies respondingRead More →
Telegram, the popular instant messaging service that offers end-to-end encryption, announced on Wednesday that they have “blocked 78 ISIS-related channels across 12 languages.” The company introduced channels in September 2015,Read More →
THE TRADE IN the secret hacker techniques known as “zero day exploits” has long taken place in the dark, hidden from the companies whose software those exploits target, and fromRead More →
Every once in a while we get a glimpse into rare and strange behavior that doesn’t involve the website being hacked, but causes major problems for website owners. We haveRead More →
In a new Ubuntu Security Notice (USN-2814-1), Canonical announced that they have patched a security vulnerability in the Nvidia proprietary graphics drivers for all supported Ubuntu Linux operating systems. AccordingRead More →
CARNEGIE MELLON’S researchers pulled their talk on cracking the protections of the anonymity software Tor from the schedule of the Black Hat security conference in 2014, the university has beenRead More →
Hide your Windows 10 & Edge browser, Dyreza is coming!. A new variant of the Dyreza banking trojan comes with support for Microsoft’s latest products, the Windows 10 operating system andRead More →
loud access keys hardcoded inside apps leave users exposed to data theft, and developers vulnerable to server hijacking Researchers from the Technical University in Darmstadt, Germany, have carried out anRead More →
