The young hacker Mys7erioN announced to have hacked into the database of a US organization, the Michigan State University. Data leaked online. Today I was contacted via Twitter by Mys7erioN who revealedRead More →
The malware world continues to develop rapidly and dynamically. On a daily basis new malware appears, accelerating the cat-and-mouse game between attackers and defenders. As a result, it’s more importantRead More →
Rex incorporates some features from the Mirai malware. The Rex Linux malware is not as widespread and efficient as initially thought, and currently, the multi-featured Rex malware is only inRead More →
At the 2016 mobile Pwn2Own event, held on Oct. 26 in Tokyo, security researchers were able to exploit devices that vendors had fully patched. In total, Trend Micro’s Zero DayRead More →
Ryan Collins sent fake e-mails that appeared to be from Apple and Google. A 36-year-old Ryan Collins from Pennsylvania was sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty toRead More →
BLACKGEAR is an espionage campaign which has targeted users in Taiwan for many years. Multiple papers and talks have been released covering this campaign, which used the ELIRKS backdoor when itRead More →
In early October, a hacker named Anna-senpai published the source code of a malware created to automatically scour the internet for poorly secured and easy-to-hack connected devices that could beRead More →
Ukrainian hacking group’s haul shows Russian plans to destabilize Kiev…maybe. MRecently a cache of 2,337 e-mails from the office of a high-ranking advisor to Russian president Vladimir Putin was dumped onRead More →
TL;DR Here’s a new code injection technique, dubbed AtomBombing, which exploits Windows atom tables and Async Procedure Calls (APC). Currently, this technique goes undetected by common security solutions that focusRead More →
The latest Android.Lockscreen variants declare their activity as part of the launcher category to get around Android’s security restrictions. New variants of Android.Lockscreen are using a simple, yet effective techniqueRead More →
