Macs targeted with new Backdoor.MAC.Eleanor trojan.Security researchers from Bitdefender have discovered a new malware family that opens a backdoor via the Tor network on Mac OS X systems. The malware’sRead More →
Hi, everyone! In this article I will continue to publish my research of Lenovo ThinkPad’s firmware. Previously I shownhow to discover and exploit SMM callout vulnerabilities on example of SystemSmmAhciAspiLegacyRtRead More →
The malware economy is alive and well! And cyber criminals are making big money by using this business model. The re-emergence of Adwind RAT provides additional proof to support this.Read More →
A second US man has pleaded guilty to stealing intimate pictures of celebrities using a phishing scam. Edward Majerczyk, 28, who resides in Chicago and Orland Park, Illinois, was chargedRead More →
Yingmob supposedly controls over 85 million Android devices. A Chinese advertising company is responsible for two of the biggest waves of malware for both the Android and iOS ecosystems, a recentRead More →
Popular Android Keyboard App with 50 million downloads is spying on you. A popular Android keyboard app called Flash Keyboard was found by a UK-based cyber-security firm, Pentest to be askingRead More →
RansomNoteCleaner Windows app cleans up the ransom note spam left behind after removing a ransomware infection. Security researcher Michael Gillespie, one of the people responsible for creating several free ransomwareRead More →
Talos have observed a large uptick in the Zepto ransomware and have identified a method of distribution for the Zepto ransomware, Spam Email. Locky/Zepto continue to be well known ransomwareRead More →
It all started from a spam campaign. Figure 1 shows a campaign we picked up recently from our spam traps with a suspicious document file attachment. Notice how poor theRead More →
Is it a bug or is it a backdoor? Lenovo, and possibly other PC vendors, is exposed to a UEFI bug that can be exploited to disable firmware write-protection. If theRead More →
