The authors of malware use various techniques to circumvent defensive mechanisms and conceal harmful activity. One of them is the practice of hiding malicious code in the context of aRead More →
The short answer to the headline’s question is that a UEFI scanner is all about helping you protect your computer against people who seek to take it over by abusingRead More →
Today we picked up new activity from an exploit kit that was first discovered back in August of this year. The Disdain exploit kit, simply identified by a string of the sameRead More →
Trend Micro spotted TOASTAMIGO, the first known malware that uses the recently patched vulnerability that ties with the Toast Overlay attacks. Malware researchers at Trend Micro have spotted the first knownRead More →
Wikileaks released the first batch of documents starting with the source code and development logs of the Project Hive. Today the popular whistleblower organization Wikileaks announced a new Vault 8 series that shedRead More →
AS DANGEROUS AS they may be, the Kremlin-linked hacking group known as APT28, or Fancy Bear, gets points for topicality. Last year, the group hacked the Democratic National Committee and theRead More →
Security experts have discovered a new hacking tool dubbed NEW IPCAM EXPLOIT containing a backdoor that is offered on several underground hacking forums. Wannabe hackers, be careful out of free hackingRead More →
Intel’s management engine – in most Positive Technologies plans to demonstrate at the next Black Hat conference how to hack over USB into Intel Management Engine of most CPUs sinceRead More →
When we give privacy or security advice, we usually talk about strong passwords, backing up your data, using security applications, keeping systems up to date, and avoiding default settings. InRead More →
In Part 1 of this series, we’ll be exploiting a stack buffer overflow using a Saved Return Pointer Overwrite attack. Hopefully, you’re all caught up on the necessary prerequisite knowledge afterRead More →
