OutlawCountry is the name of the latest CIA exploit revealed by the WikiLeaks. Unlike ELSA which was designed to target Windows systems to determine the location of a particular user, OutlawCountry targets Linux systems. According to a leaked user manual,…
What were the reasons behind the latest Petya/ NotPetya/ GoldenEye ransomware outbreak? Considering the circumstances surrounding this week’s malware catastrophe, security researchers have been struggling to understand why the campaign happened in the first place. Who was behind it? The…
How do you feel about a decade-old vulnerability in a range of Unix-based operating systems, like Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSF, FreeBSD and Solaris? Unfortunately, this question is not a theoretical one as such a vulnerability (identified as CVE-2017-1000364) has been discovered,…
CVE-2017-9948 is a stack buffer overflow vulnerability recently discovered in Microsoft Skype 7.2, 7.35, and 7.36 before 7.37. The Skype flaw involves MSFTEDIT.DLL mishandling of remote RDP clipboard content within the message box, as explained by researchers. The highly severe…
SamSam ransomware has been around since at least March 2016, but research indicates that it is active once again. This time around, the criminals behind the ransomware are demanding a huge amount of ransom, AlientVault researchers say. Related Story: SamSam…
Have you ever pondered on the type of personal information that search giant Google indexes? Perhaps you haven’t? Here’s some food for thought – Google has silently altered its search engine indexing to exclude medical data. Why is that a…
Have you heard of Google Backup and Sync? Apparently, Backup and Sync is a new feature Google is about to start rolling out on June 28. The feature will assist users in backing up their important files to the cloud.…
Earlier this month, security experts from Check Point made a report about a browser hijacker and malware downloader dubbed Fireball. The security company claimed that the Chinese malware had infected more than 250 million systems. Microsoft, on the other hand,…
Windows 10 is vulnerable to a bypass of PatchGuard kernel protection in the operating system. The bypass, dubbed GhostHook, makes the OS vulnerable to rootkits. Even though Windows 10’s protection against rootkit attacks has been known to be quite efficient…
Symantec just fixed three flaws (CVE-2017-6326, CVE-2017-6324, CVE-2017-6325) in the Symantec Messaging Gateway (SMG). The vulnerabilities were of the remote code execution, privilege escalation and file inclusion types. A security advisory addressing the vulnerabilities has been issued. Related Story: Symantec…
Are you a user of OpenVPN? The software patched four vulnerabilities just this week. One of the flaws is quite severe – a remote code execution bug that could allow an authenticated attacker to run code on a compromised box.…
PoS terminals have been a primary victim of hacking attacks in 2016, a new Trustwave report shows. Attacks targeting sales terminals increased to 31% last year, whereas e-commerce incidents fell to 26%. 49% of Data Breaches in 2016 Happened in…
Honda has suffered a WannaCry cyberattack which led to the interruption of one of their domestic vehicle plants in Japan for a whole day. The Japanese automobile company said that it had shut its plant in Sayama, near Tokyo, on…
Kaspersky recently filed anti-trust complaints against Microsoft with the European Commission and the German Federal Cartel Office. The anti-virus company did the same in the end of 2016 with Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service. As to why, Kaspersky believes that Microsoft…
Data breaches are making headlines everyday, do you want to in be one of them? Read on the article to understand how you can stop hackers from crashing your success party! No matter you are managing a business or an…
There is a possibility that one of the biggest torrent trackers out there, The Pirate Bay could be permanently blocked as a result of a decision made by the higher ups at the European court. In the decision’s document, the…
The corporation behind Windows XP, Microsoft was forced to issue more security patches for one of it’s older versions for which the support has already expired. The primary reason for releasing the security patches is the recent WannaCry ransomware virus…
Researchers have identified a new method by which one can get infected with viruses and this method is likely to become widespread soon, so suggestions are to be extremely careful. The method is dangerous primarily because it takes advantage of…
MacRansom and MacSpy are two samples of new Mac malware that has been created by the same person. That person is also offering the two pieces for sale via the malware-as-a-service model on two dark web portals. Potential customers and…
Kaspersky has filed anti-trust complaints against Microsoft with the European Commission and the German Federal Cartel Office. The anti-virus company has already done the same in the end of 2016 with Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service. The reason for these measures?…
