The FTC has filed a lawsuit against D-Link for failing to protect its customers against ‘well known and easily preventable software security flaws’ in its routers and IoT cameras. TheRead More →
MongoDB administrators are about to be tought a hard lesson in database management practices, as the number of hackers that are now involved with DB hijacking attempts has gone fromRead More →
Researchers have discovered a Linux variant of the KillDisk ransomware, which itself is a new addition to the KillDisk disk wiper malware family, previously used only to sabotage companies byRead More →
we will detail our discovery of the next two versions of MM Core, namely “BigBoss” (2.2-LNK) and “SillyGoose” (2.3-LNK). Attacks using “BigBoss” appear likely to have occurred since mid-2015, whereas “SillyGoose” appears to haveRead More →
SGX needs I/O protection, Austrian boffins reckon. Intel’s Software Guard Extensions started rolling in Skylake processors in October 2015, but it’s got an Achilles heel: insecure I/O like keyboards orRead More →
The Koolova ransomware will decrypt the encrypted files for free it the victim read two blog posts about how to avoid ransomware infection. Ransomware authors are very creative, in theRead More →
The notorious black hat hacker CyberZeist (@cyberzeist2) has broken into the FBI website FBI.gov and leaked data on Pastebin. The notorious black hat hacker CyberZeist (@cyberzeist2) has broken into theRead More →
A ransomware family named FireCrypt will encrypt the user’s files, but also attempt to launch a very feeble DDoS attack on a URL hardcoded in its source code. This threatRead More →
A hacker going by the online handle of “Kuroi’SH” hacked and defaced the official Google Brazil domain earlier Tuesday afternoon. The hacker left a deface page along with a messageRead More →
A cyber-crime infrastructure known in infosec circles as pseudo-Darkleech has been the source of many ransomware infections during the past year, either by malicious spam attachments or via automated attacksRead More →
