Berta is a dedicated malware researcher, dreaming for a more secure cyber space. Her fascination with IT security began a few years ago when a malware locked her out of her own computer.
Let’s face it – in the digital era the less technical computer users are the hackers’ favorite targets in every campaign, be that data theft or corporate espionage. In many cases, the only thing needed for the success of a…
People who were trying to access the iCloud service from China were recently having troubles. They have been blocked and their connection was been directed to a phishing page that collects the user credentials. The IT security specialists are figuring…
Researchers with the Russian multi-national security company Kaspersky have discovered a new OS X malware, dubbed Ventir. Reportedly it contains a keylogger, a Trojan, and a backdoor that allows the hackers to keep on accessing compromised machines. Reportedly, Ventir is…
One of the interesting topics, presented on the Black Hat Europe Conference 2014 conducted in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, between 14 – 17 October this year was how hackers could get around Android package (APK) protection changing the input and output…
What Is CryptoWall 2.0? The CryptoWall ransomware has been an enormous threat for network administrators and PC users, ever since it was initially released because it encrypts the local data as well as data found on network shares. The new…
As PC users, we are doing everything in the web browsers and this would have been wonderful if the cyber attackers, advertisers and scammers have not been trying to get their code in the browsers that we use. This is…
The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) has recently warned users about malware campaigns that use the Ebola virus as a topic. Cyber criminals may use different scam messages containing links that redirect the users to malicious websites that…
As hackers keep on targeting the online advertising world, which is considered the back of the Internet economy, more and more online brands are facing the need to eliminate the hoax of malvertising. A fresh example for such action is…
The creators of Asprox botnet are sending spam emails promising a free Starbucks gift card in order to expand the capacity of the botnet. The main purpose of the spam campaign is to enlarge the botnet, which has been known…
A spam e-mail that aims to increase the stock value of a Canadian penny stock company has been delivered to numerous users last week. As a result of the campaign, the transaction volume increased significantly. The company in question is…
What Is ZeroAccess? The ZeroAccess rootkit is a Trojan infecting Windows operating systems. The malware is also known as max++ or Sirefef and was first detected in the summer of 2011. The ZeroAccess botnet is to this day one of…
Google researchers Bodo Möller, Thai Duong & Krzysztof Kotowicz announced yesterday that they have recently discovered Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption, known as POODLE, to be attacking the SSL 3.0 version of the public-encryption key introduced by Microsoft back…
What Is the Sandworm Malware? The latest malware on the horizon, Sandworm, may have been named after the famous worm-like creature from the 60’s sci-fi classic Dune, but users should keep in mind that it is neither a worm, nor…
Vulnerabilities are Coming from the CMS Plug-Ins The content management systems are in the focus of the cyber criminals due to the availability of plug-ins, large attack surfaces themes and extensions. The news reports in the last few months revealed…
In a statement, published on 10 October this year, Kmart Company President Alasdair James acknowledged that the company has been recently a subject of a hack attack. On 9 October, 2014 Kmart’s IT team discovered their PoS (Point-of-Sale) systems to…
A few days ago 14IE flows have been closed. In September the IT specialists warned that the Aurora Panda/DeputyDog actor has lost its IE 0day for being patched and that as found unusual. In October several other vulnerabilities have been…
In the last month or so, malware researchers from Trend Micro have been observing malicious ads, a part of which were displayed on YouTube that have redirected over 113 000 users to harmful webpages. Reportedly the cyber crooks have managed…
A new post release by an unknown hacker group in the text sharing Pastebin site today states that they have managed to steal more than 6 million user credentials from the famous share-cloud service Dropbox. The statement also says that…
GameOver Zeus, a botnet designed to infect systems and steal their banking credentials, was detected to have compromised vogue.com, according to URLquery.net, a website for detecting and analysing malware. The Department of Justice and the FBI managed to disrupt the…
Cache of about 13 gigabytes of pictures, some of them of nude and underage users, leaked out in the free web on Thursday night. Most of them were posted into the 4Chan imageboard website. The cache came from the photo…
