Safe Mode proves to be a valuable tool for hackers.Research published by CyberArk, a US cyber-security vendor, reveals various attack scenarios that leverage Windows Safe Mode to carry out maliciousRead More →
A Dutch Computer Science student discovered the presence of a backdoor that could allow an attacker to silently install any app on Xiaomi phones. A Dutch Computer Science student, Thijs Broenink,Read More →
A Brazilian Infosec research group, Morphus Labs, just discovered a new Full Disk Encryption (FDE) Ransomware this week, dubbed Mamba. Mamba, as they named it, uses a disk-level encryption strategyRead More →
Research published last week by the Cyber-Security Research Center at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel reveals that it only takes about 6,000 smartphones infected with malware toRead More →
During the past few weeks there has been an increase in malvertising attacks, for example via a series of compromises of open source Revive ad servers which is still continuing. What’s interesting toRead More →
The Shark Ransomware Project that appeared in July 2016 has rebranded as the Atom Ransomware Affiliate Program, offering an improved service for crooks that want to start a life inRead More →
“The French Underground: Under a Shroud of Extreme Caution”, another interesting report published by Trend Micro on illegal activities in the Dark Web. The dark web is a privileged place whereRead More →
For bogus applications to be profitable, they should be able to entice users into installing them. Scammers do so by riding on the popularity of existing applications, embedding them withRead More →
Eurekalert pulls everybody’s access after security breach.For many science journalists, a week would not be complete without one or more trips to the Eurekalert website. Put together by the AmericanRead More →
The security expert Issam Rabhi (@issam_rabhi) has discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability in Google France. The giant already fixed it. A security expert from French security outfit Sysdream, Issam RabhiRead More →
