Malware Leveraging PowerSploit
2017-03-03
Hi again, this is Shusei Tomonaga from the Analysis Center. In this article, I’d like to share some of our findings about ChChes (which we introduced in a previous article)Read More →
Mike Pence used an AOL e-mail account for state business and it got hacked
2017-03-03
As a candidate, Trump VP castigated Clinton for use of a private e-mail server. As the US Republican vice presidential candidate, Mike Pence vigorously chastised Hillary Clinton for using aRead More →
Exploiting Android S-Boot: Getting Arbitrary Code Exec in the Samsung Bootloader (1/2)
2017-03-03
Samsung’s Secure Bootloader (S-Boot) for Android lies at the heart of Samsung’s chain of trust concept. An attacker who compromises S-Boot could potentially load an untrusted kernel and system image,Read More →
Researchers uncover PowerShell Trojan that uses DNS queries to get its orders
2017-03-03
Delivered by “secure” Word doc, pure PowerShell malware fetches commands from DNS TXT records. Researchers at Cisco’s Talos threat research group are publishing research today on a targeted attack deliveredRead More →
Hidden backdoor discovered in Chinese IoT devices
2017-03-02
Researchers at Trustwave have uncovered a backdoor in IoT devices from a Chinese manufacturer that could leave them open to exploitation. The backdoor is present in almost all devices producedRead More →
BlackArch Linux 2017-03-01 Hacking Distro Released With 50 New Tools And Kernel 4.9.11
2017-03-02
Short Bytes: The developers of BlackArch ethical hacking distro have released the new ISO images of their operating system. BlackArch Linux 2017-03-01 is now available with 50 new hacking tools, Linux kernelRead More →
Online shops plundered by bank card-stealing malware after bungling backend Aptos hacked
2017-03-02
We were silenced by the Feds!’. Shoppers of 40 online stores have had their bank card numbers and addresses slurped by a malware infection at backend provider Aptos. The securityRead More →
Yahoo cookie hacks affected 32 million accounts, CEO forgoes bonus
2017-03-02
Nation-sponsored attackers targeted 26 specific accounts. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said she’ll forgo her 2016 bonus and any stock award for this year after the company admitted it failed toRead More →
Two new Mac backdoors discovered
2017-03-01
On Valentine’s Day, Mac users got a special “treat” in the form of new malware. Then, later that same week, there were signs of yet another piece of malware looming. These threatsRead More →
Massive Necurs Spam Botnet Now Equipped to Launch DDoS Attacks
2017-03-01
With more than one million active bots at any time, a Necurs-enabled DDoS attack could dwarf such an attack by the Mirai botnet. In an ominous development, the world’s largestRead More →
