WikiLeaks dumped today the manuals of several hacking utilities part of Brutal Kangaroo, a CIA malware toolkit for hacking into air-gapped (offline) networks using tainted USB thumb drive. According toRead More →
Hackers can exploit electronic cigarettes and any other electronic device to deliver a malware in a poorly protected network. In November 2014, in a discussion started on the Reddit newsRead More →
Larson Studios paid $50,000 to the hacker group, but they decided to leak the season because of breach of contract. Season 5 of Netflix’s “Orange in the New Black” TVRead More →
I was told by Emsisoft security researcher xXToffeeXx about a new ransomware called TeslaWare that is being promoted on a black hat criminal site. After a quick search, I was able toRead More →
WHEN YOU THINK of a standard hacker toolkit, software vulnerabilities and malware come to mind. But a pair of researchers are testing a different type of instrument: a physical toolRead More →
On Monday, Honda was forced to temporarily shut down its car plant in Sayama, Japan, after some of its computer systems were infected with the infamous WannaCry ransomware, reported ReutersRead More →
Malware authors are using an NSA hacking tool to infect Windows computers with a new cryptocurrency miner. Detected under the generic name of Trojan.BtcMine.1259, this trojan was first spotted lastRead More →
The crusty SMBv1 file-sharing protocol, abused by a NSA exploit last month that spread WannaCry, will be removed from Windows 10 starting with the upcoming Redstone 3 update. “We canRead More →
Almost 100 such apps, with >1 million downloads, found so far (but not by Google). For the second time this month, Google has removed Android apps from its Google PlayRead More →
McAfee Labs report says 244 new threats are detected every minute – and that Android is the target in a boom in ransomware attacks. The number of different families ofRead More →
