It has now been discovered that even after a year of patching the cryptographic software library OpenSSL, changing passwords, and other security measures applied, the Heartbleed bug still poses a big threat. Thousands of devices are still prone to the…
Researchers have disclosed information about certain vulnerabilities inside web and mobile applications of the popular sites Yahoo, PayPal, Shopify and Magento. This could have led to phishing attacks, hijacking of sessions and even, stealing of accounts. Vulnerability Lab researchers Ayoub…
Microsoft has left in Windows 10 the keylogger from its “Technical Preview” versions, even after the official release of the operating system in July. It was previously stated by Microsoft that they may collect data from everything you say, type…
Stealing money online has never been easier. ATM malware, along with other online money theft scams, has been quite popular during the last couple of years. One of the latest ATM ‘viruses’ enables criminals to physically harvest debit and credit…
The infamous Carbanak Banking Trojan that stole more than $1 billion from global financial organizations is active once again. Security researchers at Csis.dk managed to isolate a signed binary that later turned out to be a new sample of Carbanak,…
Microsoft has released three new cumulative updates for Windows 10. Windows 10 updates have turned into a hot topic among users and security professionals. Some of the updates, like KB3081424, have caused lots of crashes and, as a result, stirred…
Article Pinpoints: *What are the types of Trojan Horses? *Who is endangered by Trojans? *What are the most notable Trojan attacks in the past years? *How do high profile, collection-of-malware attacks happen? What Is a Trojan Horse and How Does…
A Web browser can be two things. A person who browses the Internet and the instrument he uses to do so. We all know about the first one, so what do we know about the second? NB! Make sure to…
The researchers from Tel Aviv University and Weizmann Institute of science, called Daniel Genkin, Adi Shamir, Eran Tromer were able to break the toughest encryption used by most ransomware viruses – RSA – 4096 bits. The revolutionizing cyber-attack was performed…
Microsoft Edge, the browser that was supposed to win over users and beat competition, is not as popular as one would think. New data shows that a minority of people that are currently running Windows 10 have chosen to use…
We have been quite curious about what is currently happening with Windows 10. There has already been enough controversy in regards of the new update policy of Microsoft’s latest. A new spicy ingredient has just been added to the pot…
Name Type Trojan Short Description Read and write permissions in Windows 10. Allows the attacker to infect other PC connected to the infected one. Symptoms Appearing of an unfamiliar .exe file. Distribution Method Spam mails. MiTM attacks, malicious redirects. Detection…
A new Russian malware has surfaced the Web. It is called Hammertoss and is a malware strain with backdoor capabilities. Hammertoss is attributed to a Russian group called APT29 and has been discovered by researchers at FireEye Inc. They have…
KB3081424 is a Microsoft’s cumulative update for Windows 10. It has already been blamed to cause issues for numerous users. The update is reported to put systems into a never-ending loop of crashes. Basically, it keeps on trying to install…
Upgrading to Windows 10 may be an easy job… unless you stumble upon an activation error. Many errors of the kind have already been reported by users, attempting to switch to Windows latest. Users that have upgraded for free to…
Many businesses already began adopting Windows 10 in their work environment. When the free upgrade from Windows 8, 8.1 and 7 has been made available, Win10 is about to become widely used in personal computers. That is why we decided…
Windows Update KB3022345, or DiagTrack, was released on May 14, 2015. It raised quite the suspicion since it was set to collect sensitive information from machines it was installed on. Even though the data collection was for diagnostics reasons, many…
Earlier this year – in March – a macro-based malware called Bartalex was detected. Macro-based attacks exploiting Microsoft Word and Excel keep on occurring even though the technique can be described as ‘an old trick’ that has been around for…
Hacking Team is now selling their surveillance system Galileo. This software is said to be able to hack any mobile software, including iOS, Windows Phone, Android, Symbian and Blackberry. However, there have been reports that it can also affect Windows…
CryptoWall – the King of the Ransomware Kingdom CryptoWall can easily be defined as the most successful ransomware that continues to target both businesses and users on a global level. The techniques CrytoWall employs to target systems vary in sophistication…
