Cyber-crooks secretly develop new Asacub Android malware, deploy it for the first time this Christmas. Over the past six months, security experts from Kaspersky have observed the slow evolution of theRead More →
Exploit takes a long time to cook Windows, but gives hackers a menu of evil options. Shmoocon Foxglove Security bod Stephen Breen has strung together dusty unpatched Windows vulnerabilities toRead More →
Steam scammer caught red-handed by Panda Security researcher. A crafty Steam user created four Chrome extensions that would empty out his victim’s Steam inventory and send all their game perks toRead More →
Short Bytes: If you are interested in increasing the security and privacy of your network traffic, here’s a great news for you. Facebook has just rolled out experimental TOR supportRead More →
A new zero-day vulnerability allows Android or Linux applications to escalate privileges. Security researchers have discovered a new zero-day vulnerability in Linux kernel that affects both the Linux operating system and theRead More →
A new archive containing alleged voting records of millions of US citizens is available on a hidden service on the dark web. Joseph Fox from Motherboard discovered alleged voting recordsRead More →
Dr.Web, a Russian antivirus maker, has detected a new threat against Linux users, the Linux.Ekocms.1 trojan, which includes special features that allow it to take screengrabs and record audio. DiscoveredRead More →
Walmart-owned store patches hole, but it was open for nearly 2 years. Retailer Asda dragged its heels for nearly two years before finally this week tackling a set of securityRead More →
A new variant of the infamous Tinba banking trojan has emerged in the wild and is targeting financial institutions in the Asia Pacific region. Even small threats can scare theRead More →
Finnish fellow scores $10k bug bounty for reporting malformed HTML mess. Video A stored XSS vuln in Yahoo! Mail has netted Finnish researcher Jouko Pynnönen of Klikki a US$10,000 bugRead More →
