The Conti ransomware, ever since its initial release, has impacted a lot of computer systems and unlike other common malware, it includes the ability to use all available CPU threads during its execution. As more and more samples are collected,…
Account takeover (ATO) continues to be a “ubiquitous problem”, at the heart of which are compromised user credentials. According to a detailed paper by Digital Shadows Photon Research, currently approximately 15 billion credentials are circulating on hacker forums, enabling account…
The Magecart group is not the only hacking collective targeting online e-commerce stores en masse. Known as Keeper, this cybercrime group has successfully broken into online store backends to change their source code and insert malicious scripts. These scripts stole…
New exploits for Microsoft Software including the Windows operating system have been added to the Purple Fox and Magnitude Exploit Kits. These are some of the serious tools used by computer criminals in leveraging large-scale network attacks. The newly found…
Are you actively using dating apps? Then you may want to know that cybersecurity researchers just discovered 5 separate leaks of personal information of users of dating apps in the US, Japan, and South Korea. According to WizCase researchers, the…
Privacy on social media should be a top concern for online users. However, most people remain unaware of the misdeeds of social networks and app developers who often abuse their personal information. The CanaryTrap Method Helps Identify Data Misuse Fortunately,…
The Apache Guacamole remote desktop gateway has been identified to contain zero-day vulnerabilities. The identified issues are described as Reverse RDP vulnerabilities which allows criminals to take over the sessions. Identified issues are now tracked in the CVE-2020-9497 advisory. Zero-Day…
The EKANS ransomware which is known as Snake is one of the most prolific hacking tools which are used in large-scale and targeted campaigns against industrial plants. A recently discovered hacking offensive has uncovered that this malware is once again…
A new information disclosure vulnerability, CVE-2020-12418, was just discovered in Mozilla Firefox. Discovered by Cisco Talos, the vulnerability can be exploited by tricking the user into visiting a specially crafted web page via the browser. In case of a successful…
Security researchers detected a surge of sophisticated targeted attacks that originate from the well-known APT15 hacking group. The targets appear to be the Uyghur community living in China and following the incidents analysis it appears that the criminals may be…
Two out-of-band security updates were just released by Microsoft, addressing remote code execution (RCE) security flaws in Microsoft Windows Codecs Library. Several Windows 10 and Windows Server versions are affected by the vulnerabilities, which are known as CVE-2020-1425 and CVE-2020-1457.…
Mac security is once again impacted by a very dangerous threat called the Evilquest ransomware. This is a rare and new malware which has been detected in software installers that have the virus code embedded in them. In comparison with…
Security researchers have detected that an ongoing attack is being carried out by a hacking group called StrongPity using spyware files. The findings shows that this particular campaign appears to be focused against Kurdish targets which are present in these…
How safe do you think your Facebook password is? If you have used one of the 25 Android apps Google just removed from Google Play Store, your Facebook credentials were stolen. The findings come from French cybersecurity firm Evina which…
LenovoEMC NAS devices are the latest targets of a cybercrime group known as Cl0ud SecuritY. LenovoEMC NAS, or network-attached storage devices are currently being targeted by ransomware threat actors who wipe their files and demand a ransom of about $200…
Computer criminals have devised a new infection mechanism that inserts virus code into the meta data of images which are uploaded to eCommerce sites and portals. This method relies on the saving of the code in the meta data which…
Microsoft Office 365 users are the newest victims of a massive phishing attacks designed to blackmail them into opening malware files. The malicious files are hosted in SLK files whih also include a new infection mechanism. New Intrusion Technique Used…
The distribution of the GoldenSpy Trojan, a prominent remote access malware, has been found to infect users via a legitimate Chinese tax application. It appears that the virus code is bundled from within the software and is made part of…
An advanced Microsoft Windows malware called Lucifer has been found to infect target computers using a very sophisticated features set. It has been detected in an active attack campaign which features a novel infection techniques by “bombarding” computer hosts with…
A new report by WatchGuard sheds light on the state of malware so far into 2020. One of the most crucial findings of the report is that 67% of the malware in Q1 of 2020 was distributed via encrypted HTTPS…
