A number of the company’s US-sold products were used in the attack, which prevented millions of users from accessing dozens of high-profile websites. A Chinese manufacturer of internet-connected surveillance camerasRead More →
This post takes a quick look at Sphinx’s domain generation algorithm (DGA). Sphinx,another Zeus-based banking trojan variant, has been around circa August 2015. The DGA domains are used as aRead More →
Recently a massive DDoS attack has disconnected a large portion of users from the Internet, hackers exploited IoT devices. Is your router secure? “Are we ready to live in a worldRead More →
Permission-less apps take only seconds to root phones from LG, Samsung and Motorola. Researchers have devised an attack that gains unfettered “root” access to a large number of Android phones, exploitingRead More →
Researchers at InTheCyber firm have discovered a new easy exploitable and dangerous vulnerability affecting messaging systems. InTheCyber – Intelligence & Defense Advisors (www.inthecyber.com), a leader in offensive & Defensive Cyber Security,Read More →
The East Coast was under siege on Friday morning from a large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that brought down more than a dozen prominent websites, including Twitter, Spotify,Read More →
Cyber security group says attack launched against visitors to vessel in South China Sea. Chinese hackers targeted foreign government personnel who visited a US aircraft carrier the day before aRead More →
Update DNS provider Dyn has confirmed two massive distributed denial of service attacks against its servers Friday impacting many of its customers including Twitter, Spotify and GitHub. The attacks came inRead More →
Trojan targets desktops, not servers or IoT devices. Malware authors are taking aim at Linux computers, more precisely desktops and not servers, with a new trojan named FakeFile, currently distributed inRead More →
In writing the most recent Hack This (“Scrape the Web with Beautiful Soup”) I again found myself trapped between the competing causes of blog-brevity and making sure everything is totallyRead More →
