Being a cyber security blog, we are used to mentioning MITRE mainly when it comes to disclosure of vulnerabilities (CVEs). However, the not-for-profit company “operates multiple federally funded research and development centers” and has now launched a competition with the…
Stealing from Dark Web users may seem ridiculous but it’s a crime that can get you charges! This is what happened to Michael Richo, a 30-something-year-old man from Connecticut who was caught stealing Bitcoin via fake login pages from users…
Scams over the phone continue to be quite profitable, as evident by three call centers in Thane district of Mumbai which brought a profit of over $75 million to the scammers. The call centers are already shut down by the…
Facebook is often targeted by spammers and scammers, scenarios which often lead to malware infiltration. Unfortunately, some of these campaigns may turn out to be more persistent than expected. Such a Facebook spam campaign, recently detected in France has caused…
Online stores are not safe anymore according to recent reports by Sucuri. First detected in March 2016, the Magecart malware has begun to gain momentum in it’s activity until May when it began to target well-known and large online retailer…
Security researcher Stacey Jury at IntaForesincs has shared some concerns in terms of iOS 10’s privacy, in particular Apple Safari’s private browsing mode. Apparently, Apple has changed some things in the private mode in Safari and it is now less…
A trojan horse, created by a hacking group, dubbing it FastPOS, has recently been updated with a new technique that causes infection via a bug in Windows Mailslots mechanisms. The new version of the POS malware is not only created…
If you are a Spotify Free user, perhaps you should be more careful since users have spotted malicious behavior, SCMagazine reports. According to several users of the free version of the service, ads are serving malware through the advertiser network.…
According to a new report by Applied Risk conducted by security researcher Alexandru Ariciu, “multiple vulnerabilities were found in MOXA E1242 Ethernet remote I/O series used in factory automation.” The vulnerabilities can trigger code injection in the web application, and…
According to a research carried out by Symantec, Turkey has taken the leading position in terms of highest botnet population in EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa), with Istanbul and Ankara having the highest and second highest botnet controlled…
Password and credential security and respectively theft is a dangerous element of an infection chain. Luckily, security researchers at the University of Washington may have found a solution to prevent malicious hackers from intercepting passwords and keys, a rather unusual…
Apple and Microsoft have been competitors ever since their inception. Nonetheless, it’s not unseen for companies to adopt similar politics for one reason or another. According to Apple commentator Jim Dalrymple, Apple is about to engulf a behavior that is…
A decade or two ago, augmented reality (AR) may have been something more abstract than real but not anymore. Standing on the thin line between virtual reality and our own world, augmented reality is here to reshape our thinking. AR…
The notorious IoT(Internet of Things) botnet Mirai has seen a rapid rise in it’s global infection rate, malware researchers report. When the botnet first came out, nobody believed it will become this widespread, however after the hacker(s) creating it found…
The latest trend in the 21st century – IoT, common systems of devices organized to revolutionize our daily lives are becoming a playground for hackers. This becomes particularly interesting primarily for IT security professionals who are always looking forward to…
You can buy or sell pretty much anything on the Darknet, Office 365 accounts inclusive. Security firm SenseCy recently came across a new advert promoting a new hidden service – Open Hacking Lab (OHL). Among the hacking arsenal usually offered…
It’s a secret to no one (in the infosec world) that the exploit kit market has been rearranged to meet the current needs of malware distributors. Just several weeks ago, there was a notable malvertising incident on the popular website…
There’s a serious uptake in DDoS attacks, and as in many cyber threats, a DDoS can be carried out for political reasons. The Newsweek website just reported a heavy DDoS, and its timing is definitely not a coincidence. The website…
Have you heard of Zerodium? It’s a company that has a pretty interesting business – it buys zero-day exploits and then sells them to international government agencies. Apparently, Zerodium really wants to get hold of a series of iOS zero-days…
Instead of being stopped, a powerful kit of different types of malware, primarily Trojan horses still continues to infect Android users on a daily basis. Reports by TrendLabs at Trend Micro indicate that some apps have even managed to generate…
