Rogue code aims to create permanent DoS. A new form of attack code has come to town and it uses techniques similar to Mirai to permanently scramble Internet of ThingsRead More →
Creator apologizes for a “joke” that really requires expert play to unlock files. At this point, Ars readers have heard countless tales of computer users being forced to pay significantRead More →
Brad Duncan, a Threat Intelligence Analyst for Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, has recently started seeing the EITest campaign use the RIG exploit kit to distribute the Matrix ransomware. While MatrixRead More →
If you follow the steps in the phishing email, you may end up giving attackers a way into stealing your identity. Apple customers should pay extra attention to the emailsRead More →
This article sheds light on the current ecosystem of the Sathurbot backdoor trojan, in particular exposing its use of torrents as a delivery medium and its distributed brute-forcing of weakRead More →
The investigation into The Love Zone child pornography site was much larger in scope than previously thought. Last year, Motherboard found Australian authorities had unmasked Tor users in the USRead More →
For more than a month, at least ten groups of attackers have been compromising systems running applications built with Apache Struts and installing backdoors, DDoS bots, cryptocurrency miners, or ransomware,Read More →
A new malware strain called BrickerBot is bricking Internet of Things (IoT) devices around the world by corrupting their storage capability and reconfiguring kernel parameters. Detected via honeypot servers maintainedRead More →
Short Bytes: There are good chances that you might’ve heard about Samsung’s Android replacement Tizen OS. Recently, an Israeli researcher uncovered 40 zero-days in this Linux-based open source OS. As most ofRead More →
An Indian developer is playing around with an open source ransomware builder, which in the long run may end up causing serious problems for innocent users. This developer, who goesRead More →
