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Medical and non-medical chips are entering our lives despite the controversy they are surrounded by. Unfortunately, many people willing to participate in such programs are forgetting the civil and privacy issues that must be addressed by system designers, innovators, regulators,…
One of the last times we heard of the Panda ZeuS Trojan was in June, 2017. Apparently, the banking Trojan has been used yet again in new malicious campaigns, as reported by Cisco Talos researchers. However, there is a difference…
WordPress admins, beware. Websites running on WordPress version 4.8.2 and earlier should update immediately to version 4.8.3. Security researcher Anthony Ferrara has reported an SQL injection vulnerability in the platform allowing for websites to be taken over and exploited. Even…
Silence is the name of a new Trojan (and the hacking group behind it), discovered in September by Kaspersky Lab researchers. The targeted attack is set against financial institutions, and at this point its victims are primarily Russian banks, as…
Phishing campaigns drive most of the malicious attacks in the wild, and as it turns out, cybercriminals have found an efficient way to optimize their effect. A new study reveals that attackers often re-use phishing websites across multiple hosts by…
Dark Web news flash – digital code signing certificates cost way more than guns in underground markets. Apparently, a single certificate may cost up to $1,200, whereas a handgun is sold for about $600. According to researchers at Venafi, the…
Cryptocurrency miners have successfully sneaked in the Google Play store. Researchers have found apps with malicious capabilities directed towards cryptocurrency mining. The apps were found to use dynamic JavaScript loading in combination with native code injection to bypass detection by…
Scams that are after credit card and financial information have doubled in the past year, new report shows. Such scams are distributed across social media websites. Despite their abundance and frequency, it appears that the number of hacker groups behind…
Back in 2016, PornHub started a bug bounty program with the idea to protect users from malvertising campaigns. The bug bounty program was meant to reward white hats between $50 and $25,000 for flaws found on its main website. Despite…
One of the biggest accounting firms, Deloitte, has been through a critical data breach that has affected its internal email systems. The company has tried to soften the impact of the incident by stating that it affected a handful of…
Researchers have uncovered a new critical, zero-day vulnerability in Windows, which was identified as CVE-2017-8759. The flaw is flagged as high risk, making the operating system vulnerable to remote code execution. The flaw resides within the .NET Framework. The following…
CCleaner, ‘the world’s most popular PC cleaner’ has been backdoored, researchers confirmed. Unfortunately, researchers still haven’t figured out the details surrounding the event, and it’s still unknown how it happened. Nonetheless, the hack has been confirmed by Piriform, the developer…
Researchers are not encouraged to find zero-day flaws in the Tor Browser. A new program is launched by Zerodium, the infamous private exploit reseller, which is promising rewards of up to 1$ million. All a researcher has to do is…
Have you heard of Bashware? It’s apparently a new way for malware to compromise a previously unavailable Windows 10 feature called Subsystem for Linux. The so-called Bashware can be deployed to bypass security applications on an endpoint. Related Story: Top…
Owners of a particular D-Link router model are at serious risk of hacking, researcher Pierre Kim claims. The latter has unveiled 10 serious security flaws in D-Link DIR-850L AC1200 Dual Band Gigabit Cloud router. His recommendation to users of that…
CVE-2017-7533 is the identification of the latest vulnerability found in Linux kernel that was disclosed on August 3. The flaw is described as a “race condition” that can be exploited to allow an unprivileged local user to obtain root access…
A group of security researchers have discovered a critical flaw within automatic carwash systems that are connected to the Internet. The vulnerability could potentially be exploited by remotely hijacking the carwash and directly pose a risk to the health and…
Security researchers have stumbled upon pre-installed malware and spyware on devices many times. Unfortunately, there’s new malware of the pre-installed kind that was just discovered by security company Dr. Web. The malware, which in fact is a Trojan horse called…
A new serious cryptographic vulnerability has been discovered in modern, high-speed cell networks. The flaw, revealed during the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, could allow affordable phone surveillance and location tracking. The 3G and 4G devices deployed worldwide are…
UniCredit bank breach was just registered. The institution just announced that it has suffered two security breaches in less than a year. The financial company has been breached in Italy due to unauthorized access. The breach was possible via an…
