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One of the hottest trends in malware design is AutoHotKey, security researchers say. AutoHotKey or AHK for short is an open-source scripting language that was written for Windows in 2003. In detail, the open-source language was initially aimed at providing…
One of the newest detected ransomware pieces out there has been dubbed Gedantar ransomware, or Gedantar file virus, after the main executable Gedantar.exe. The ransomware was discovered by security analyst Karsten Hahn, and researchers believe that it is an updated…
Three critical vulnerabilities have found in Cisco products. More specifically, Cisco’s IOS and IOS XE contain two flaws – CVE-2018-0151 and CVE-2018-171. The third flaw concerns only Cisco IOS XE Software. If exploited, it could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker…
Facebook Container is the name of a brand new add-on for Firefox that the Mozilla Foundation released to isolate Facebook and all of its domains from tracking users across the websites they visit while browsing. The add-on is built on…
Instead of fixing things, the patch Microsoft released for the Meltdown bug as part of the January 2018 Patch Tuesday – CVE-2017-5754 – caused further issues on Windows 7. The faulty patch allows user-level apps to read content from the…
AVCrypt is the name (after a sample named av2018.exe) of a new ransomware that displays a rather unique behavior. The ransomware attempts to uninstall whatever anti-virus and security programs are present on the targeted system. Not only does AVCrypt attempt…
Another vulnerability in macOS has been unearthed exposing passwords used for encrypted APFS external drives in plain text. The bug is present in macOS 10.13.1, and according to mac4n6, the researcher who found it, it’s still there in macOS 10.13.3.…
A new report compiled by marketing agency Fractl reveals how much worth is a user’s login for a range of online services used on a daily basis, such as Facebook, PayPal, DHL, and Gmail. The results are staggering. To do…
Facebook is once again at the center of attention, following the events from last week when the Cambridge Analytica scandal burst out. Now, it has come to the attention of several users that the Facebook’s mobile apps for Android have…
TeleRAT is the name of the latest Android Trojan that was discovered by researchers at Palo Alto Networks. The Trojan is designed to use Telegram Bot API for communication with its command and control server with the purpose of exfiltrating…
Trend Micro researchers have observed a new Monero cryptocurrency mining campaign that targets Linux servers. The campaign is using reused and known vulnerabilities – more particularly, a flaw that has been patched for five years. Users should note that the…
Ledger cryptocurrency hardware wallets have been found to be vulnerable, a teenage security researcher revealed in a blog post. The 15-year-old Saleem Rashid discovered the bug that allowed attackers to fabricate the device’s seed generation, and this way harvest any…
CVE-2018-0878 is the identifier of an information disclosure vulnerability that exists in Windows Remote Assistance. The flaw is triggered when WRA incorrectly processes XML External Entities (XXE). An attacker who successfully exploits the flaw could obtain information further abuse the…
Probably the most important factor when it comes to Facebook criticism is the way the social network handles the personal data of its users. Privacy issues related to individual cases have fueled the debate over time. The majority of the…
There were times, not too long ago, when exploit kits were widely deployed by hackers in various types of malicious campaigns. However, with the improvement of browsers and some other security-focused factors, the use of EKs began to decline, and…
Do you remember the Prilex PoS (point-of-sale) malware? Prilex is one of the latest strains of ATM malware pieces that has been used in highly targeted attacks on Brazilian banks. The malware has been developed using the Visual Basic 6.0…
According to a recent research by University of Surrey, cryptocurrencies have become the dominant tool for money laundering. How was the study conducted? Researchers gathered information directly from convicted cybercriminals and law-enforcement agencies. Apparently, crooks are using cryptocurrency to buy…
According to Microsoft’s Security Intelligence Report, Asia was the region with the highest number of ransomware infection in the period between February and December, 2017. The statistics are taken from the report’s special section dedicated to ransomware. Myanmar and Bangladesh…
Android is once again found to be vulnerable to a serious piece of malware, and this time the scale of the infection is larger than one could imagine. Security researchers came across a massive, unceasing campaign that has infected about…
Apparently, MailChimp email service has been frequently abused to deliver spam messages carrying malware infections. Security researchers have been frustrated because this problem has been happening for quite some time. MailChimp Abused in Spam Campaigns Distributing Malware The issue needs…
