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Drive-by cryptomining also known as cryptojacking has turned into one of the major threats to online users. Researchers are coming across more and more cases of abuse involving Coinhive. The Coinhive mining within a browser explained What is Coinhive? Coinhive…
A new variant of Mirai just before Christmas? Sure, why not! Qihoo 360 Netlab researchers just witnessed new uptick while tracking botnet activity associated with a new variant of the well-known Mirai IoT malware. Users should be aware that ports…
Mozilla and HaveIBeenPwned.com are joining forces to alert users when they are about to visit a site that has been hacked. This would happen via an in-browser notification thanks to which the user will be informed about the possible hacked…
Linux users, beware. A number of Linux distros are at risk due to a bug in systemd. The flaw is located in systemd’s DNS resolver and could lead to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on affected systems, TrendMicro researchers warn. The vulnerability…
New day, new vulnerability. HP has just released firmware patches to address a security bug disclosed by FoxGlove researchers, which enabled hackers to carry out remote code execution attacks on enterprise-grade printers. The flaw in question has been identified as…
Black Friday is a reminder that the winter holidays are near. Christmas means presents, presents mean shopping, which for various reasons often happens online. Unfortunately, the ever increasing number of people shopping online means more scams specifically designed to target…
What malware researchers usually encounter in their daily malware analyses is reused code. As a matter of fact, reusing code is something all developers tend to do, malicious coders inclusive. Most new malware is in fact reused, re-branded source code…
Have you heard about the accidental freeze of $300 million worth of Ether that happened to the Parity wallet? Already called the biggest cryptocurrency loss in the short life of cryptocurrencies, this event is not a classical hack. The money…
Crypto mining has proven to be one of the major threats of 2017, with the tendency to continue to be so in 2018. Cryptocurrency miners’ impact on user machines is quite destructive. Researchers found out that miners such as the…
A new banking Trojan has been reported IBM X-Forse team – the IcedID Trojan. According to researchers, the piece emerged in the wild in September last year. This is when its first campaigns took place. The Trojan has sophisticated capabilities…
New statistics reveal that 2,531 of the top 3 million websites are running the Coinhive miner, which amounts to 1 in 1,000 websites. To no one’s surprise, BitTorrent websites are the main perpetrators. But they are not the only ones.…
Plausibly 1 out of 5 feedback reports from Chrome desktop users is about encountering unwanted redirects and content, Ryan Schoen from Google has shared. Because Google is always trying to improve user experience, Chrome will soon be blocking several types…
14 flaws in Linux kernel USB drivers were just disclosed by Google researcher Andrey Konovalov. The researcher found the vulnerabilities by deploying a kernel fuzzler known as syzkaller. The “14 vulnerabilities found with syzkaller in the Linux kernel USB subsystem……
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…
