St. Jude Medical declares claim of vulnerability “false and misleading.” Trading in the stock of medical device manufacturer St. Jude Medical was halted Friday afternoon after a dramatic drop in itsRead More →
Exploiting server side bugs is a jackpot for hackers. Users tend to keep their data in one big pot – the server. This allows attackers to focus on one target,Read More →
The Domino Ransomware is a new infection discovered by Daniel Gallagher and Michael Gillespie that is based off of the Hidden Tear open-source ransomware project. What makes this variant interesting is that it pretendsRead More →
As the uptake of SSL grows, Tim Blombery, systems engineer at A10 Networks, said threat actors are increasingly leveraging SSL-based encryption to hide malicious activity. As usage of Secure SocketsRead More →
New MIME confusion attack mitigations added to Firefox 50. Starting with Firefox 50, the browser will feature improved mitigation against MIME confusion attacks, preventing a threat actor from disguising malicious codeRead More →
HTTPS and VPN traffic broken with new semi-practical attack. Two scientists from the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) have published new research that details an attackRead More →
One of the most active banking Trojans that we have observed recently in email and exploit kits is one often referred to as Ursnif or Gozi ISFB [6]. Thanks toRead More →
Today, Apple released the iOS 9.3.5 out-of-band security update, which fixes vulnerabilities that allows attackers to remotely jailbreak an iPhone in order to to install spyware. First discovered by Citizen Laband Lookout, theseRead More →
Researchers at MIT’s artificial intelligence labs have developed new algorithms that could significantly boost bandwidth and network quality. Researchers at MIT claim to have created a network-boosting technology that couldRead More →
The Linux Trojan Linux.PNScan is back and it is actively targeting routers based on x86 Linux in an attempt to install backdoors on them. Yesterday I wrote about a new LinuxRead More →
