OnePlus says it’s “looking into” the report. A Twitter user by the name “Elliot Alderson” has discovered a root backdoor in OnePlus devices—one that has apparently been shipping for years.Read More →
Android apps with millions of Google Play downloads also crash the party. A researcher has documented almost 2,500 sites that are actively running cryptocurrency mining code in the browsers ofRead More →
New AVGater flaw provided key ingredient for hacker to hijack computer. Antivirus programs, in many cases, make us safer on the Internet. Other times, they open us to attacks thatRead More →
Experts at Palo Alto Networks have discovered a new malware family named Reaver with ties to hackers who use the SunOrcal malware. A China-linked cyber espionage group has developed a newRead More →
Researchers and private industry experts, along with DHS officials, remotely hacked a Boeing 757 airplane that was parked at the airport in Atlantic City. A group of researchers and privateRead More →
“Protected by reCaptcha” means that a form has to be accompanied by a g-recaptcha-response field, which is then verified by the backend through a request to reCaptcha server. Based on the probabilityRead More →
Avira firm detected a new strain of the Locky ransomware that is spreading through malicious attachments disguised as legitimate Libre and Office documents. Researchers at Avira Virus Lab detected a new strain ofRead More →
The security experts Florian Bogner devised a method dubbed AVGater to escalate privileges by abusing the quarantine feature of some antiviruses. Several popular antivirus solutions are affected by flaws that could beRead More →
Another wiper malware posing as a ransomware is targeting German businesses under the guise of fake job applicants inquiring about openings. Ordinypt was discovered by ID-Ransomware coder Michael Gillespie when one of the malware’s ransom notesRead More →
