A new scam has been detected in the wild, exploiting the tragic Boeing 737 Max crashes in the attempt to drop malware. The spam emails use the following subject: “Airlines plane crash Boeing 737 MAX 8”. If you’ve received such…
CVE-2018-20250 is a critical vulnerability in WinRAR, which has been estimated to have been a part of the software for 19 years or even more. The vulnerability even forced the development team to drop support for a file format. This…
20 vulnerabilities have been fixed in the Intel Graphics Driver for Windows. The flaws could lead to a range of attacks such as escalation of privilege, denial of service and information disclosure. It should be mentioned that local access to…
IBM X-Force Research experts have uncovered a new type of banking Trojan. The malware is reported to be a combination between two previously detected banking Trojans – Nymaim and Gozi. Researchers have established that the Trojan contains features of both…
Perhaps you’ve experienced the outage of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram yourself when you were unable to use their services properly. Users from all over the world were reporting issues with the apps. And while the three widely popular services were…
Unpatched versions of the Abandoned Cart for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress have been exploited in attacks, researchers say. Apparently, there’s a dangerous XSS (cross-site scripting) vulnerability in the plugin which affects both paid and free versions of the plugin. Last…
March 2019 Patch Tuesday is here, addressing 64 vulnerabilities in Windows, 17 of which are critical, 45 important, oe moderate and another one low-severity in rating. Two of these vulnerabilities, CVE-2019-0797 and CVE-2019-0808, have been exploited in the wild. This…
Yatron is the name of a new ransomware-as-a-service which is currently being advertised on Twitter. Apparently, the ransomware plans to use the [wplinkpreview url=”https://sensorstechforum.com/eternalblue-exploit-backdoor-nitol-gh0st/”] EternalBlue and DoublePulsar exploits for distribution purposes. .yatron Ransomware – Update October 2019 The good news…
Microsoft has introduced a new safety feature which is designed to improve the way updates are installed and removed on Windows 10. Buggy Windows Updates to Be Automatically Uninstalled The new feature will automatically uninstall problematic software updates whenever Windows…
The STOP ransomware family has been circling the web for a few months now, successfully infecting victims and encrypting their files. In addition to the encryption capabilities, the ransomware is now able to install a particular password stealing Trojan known…
The Social Security Administration scam has turned out to be one of the most successful scams last year. It appears that scammers representing themselves as SSA employees have caused losses in the size of at least $16.6 million or more.…
According to multiple user reports and complaints, the February KB4482887 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1809 has been causing great graphics performance issues in a number of games. Issues range from FPS drops and mouse input lag to severe…
According to CrowdStrike researchers, the criminal group behind the infamous GandCrab ransomware is nicknamed Pinchy Spider. The group has been selling access to the ransomware in a partnership program with a limited number of accounts. It’s curious to note that…
The StealthWorker malware is currently being spread in a new campaign targeting both Linux and Windows. Note that previous versions of the malware only targeted the Windows platform, but a deeper look into the open directory of the latest version…
Google Chrome has been found vulnerable to a zero-day vulnerability for which there may be an active exploit in the wild. The vulnerability in question is assigned the CVE-2019-5786 number, and fortunately, it has been patched. All Chrome users are…
According to a new security report, Microsoft’s IoT version of Windows can be exploited in an attack, called SirepRAT, where hackers can take complete control of the system. The vulnerability was announced during the WOPR Summer in New Jersey where…
macOS has been found to contain a high-severity security vulnerability which was recently disclosed to the public. Apparently, Apple failed to address the issue within the 90-day deadline, and Jann Horn, researcher at Google Project Zero, released the information to…
If you are new to the world of essential online security measures, then you might be unfamiliar with the differences between an intrusion prevention system or IPS and an intrusion detection systems or IDS. In the article below we’ll give…
A new critical flaw, CVE-2019-1663, residing in Cisco wireless VPN and firewall routers was just reported. Businesses should update immediately to protect against the flaw. More specifically, CVE-2019-1663 is a serious vulnerability in the web-based management interface of the Cisco…
Coinhive just announced that the project is coming to an end very soon. According to the official statement, the service is going to be discontinued on March 8. What are the reasons for this decision? Coinhive Project Not Economically Viable…
