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A judge recently ruled that Bitcoin is a means of payment and therefore it qualifies as money: Bitcoins are funds within the plain meaning of that term. Bitcoins can be accepted as a payment for goods and services or bought…
Have you heard of Twitter’s biannual transparency report that analyzes the legal requests received in regards to user information? Well, the second biannual report for 2016 is already a fact and it definitely should be read carefully. I haven’t read…
If you download torrents, this news definitely concerns you. InfoArmor researchers have just disclosed Raum – a tool employed by Eastern European organized cybercrime group Black Team to spread malware via malicious torrents. The malware currently distributed in the campaign…
Cancer is the physiological threat of the 21st century. However, technology may turn out to be the key for solving the deadly case of cancer. Microsoft has recently promised to “solve the problem of cancer” by using ground-breaking computer science…
Mr. Robot is beginning to feel a lot more like a philosophical essay on life rather than a hacking TV show, with Satie’s Gnossienne played in the background. It is perhaps not a coincidence that I have been reading Sci-Fi…
Does Bitcoin have the value of (physical) money? This question hangs around us as Bitcoin is becoming more popular and profitable. With the reshaping and readjustment of cybercrime, the cryptocurrency has turned into the means of profit for malware coders,…
According to the FBI, a BEC scam, or a Business Email Compromise scam, is a sophisticated online fraud that targets businesses working with foreign suppliers and regularly performing wire transfer payments. Also known as a Man-in-the-Email scam, BEC has turned…
A new research conducted by Digital Shadows reveals that 76 vulnerabilities are being exploited in exploit kit attacks. 27 of them are found in Flash. Despite the popularity of Flash flaws, an IE bug prevails in most attack scenarios and…
Have you been impatiently looking forward to Mr. Robot’s second season? Do you always have questions about the hacks that take place during the show? Are you often pausing to have a closer look at what’s written on that PC…
DNS Unlocker has been around for a few years now, and still continues to be one of the most persistent adware pieces in the wild. In 2017, catching an intrusive and persistent potentially unwanted program like DNS Unlocker continues to…
Many services we use on a daily basis turn out to be quite buggy. This time our attention was caught by a vulnerability in the Yandex Browser, built on Chromium, which could have allowed attackers to steal users’ browsing history,…
MirrorLink by Connected Car Consortium is the first industry standard for connecting smartphones to in-vehicle infotainment systems (IVI). A recent comprehensive research, titled ‘A Security Analysis of an In Vehicle Infotainment and App Platform’ and carried out by Damon McCoy,…
Have you ever clicked on a random link in your inbox or in a Facebook message? Despite knowing the risks? Well, you are not alone! A study by researchers at Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, discovered that people still…
Cerber3 ransomware virus is already a fact, as accountable by several tweets by security researchers. The crypto virus is most likely appending the .cerber3 extension to victims’ encrypted files. The ransom note is titled # HELP DECRYPT #.txt. Not too…
Troy Hunt, owner of HaveIBeenPwned, just reported that 71,000 user accounts and IP addresses have been leaked from a Minecraft fan website (minecraftworldmap(.)com). The dumps include email addresses, IP addresses, usernames and passwords associated with that site. The leaked passwords…
A new spam campaign delivering the Ozone RAT has been detected targeting German-speaking users. The attack is spread via malicious Office documents. However, instead of the well-known macro malware, the operation ends with the installation of Ozone. Interestingly, users are…
Imagine there is a currently exploitable bug in Google. Well, truth is you don’t need to imagine it because it is already there! British security researcher Aidan Woods just disclosed an issue found on Google’s login page. This issue enables…
Have you been impatiently looking forward to Mr. Robot’s second season? Do you always have questions about the hacks that take place during the show? Are you often pausing to have a closer look at what’s written on that PC…
An industry analyst report by Forcepoint and Ponemon Institute, titled “The 2016 Study on the Insecurity of Privileged Users” has come to some troubling revelations. The study is based on results of a recent survey of some 704 IT operations…
Open-source ransomware is a real issue which is continuously evolving. Over the past few weeks, researchers have caught three open-source crypto virus strains, based on Hidden Tear and EDA2. What all of the three strains have in common is that…
