The Coinhive Miner virus has infected hundreds of thousands MikroTik routers. The malware has now reportedly installed a JavaScript miner to over 170,000 devices and this recent outbreak is believed to be getting bigger and bigger. The first hint of…
Numerous Steam users have reported that a game titled Abstractism is consuming way too much CPU power to mine for cryptocurrency. The game was also selling marketplace items that were masqueraded as goods from popular games such as Team Fortress…
New security statistics reveal that spam is one of the most common methods used to distribute malware to potential victims. Because of the high click rate, malicious email messages continue to be a preferred technique among cybercriminals. F-Secure researchers recently…
Here you will find out how the BitPaymer ransomware cryptovirus had forced people in some parts of Alaska, USA to go back to using typewriters. That is due to the computer systems getting compromised with said cryptovirus and as a…
Ubuntu 18.04 has been updated with a brand new security guidance released by the National Cyber Security Centre, a department of GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters). The guidance was developed after testing on devices running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. More about the…
Printers are often the weakest link in an organization, with printer vulnerabilities being exploited in various malicious campaigns to compromise entire networks. One such vulnerability was disclosed in 2017, and enabled hackers to carry out remote code execution attacks on…
AZORult is an information stealer and downloader designed to harvest various sensitive details from the systems it compromises. The malware was first identified in 2016 when it was distributed as a part of an infection with Chthonic banking Trojan. Soon…
CVE-2018-10901 is the identifier of a recently disclosed vulnerability in Linux kernel. More specifically, the vulnerability resides in the KVM virtualization subsystem, a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions. Using KVM, a user can run…
This article is about the newest iteration of the Kronos Banking Trojan and what new features it brings to the cybersecurity landscape. Malware researchers ponder whether the malware has developed into the new Osiris Trojan horse. Kronos Banking Trojan 2018…
A research conducted by Cisco Talos researchers indicates that 20 vulnerabilities that affect Samsung’s SmartThings Hub may enable hackers to compromise third-party smart devices. A successful exploit of these vulnerabilities could let attackers connect remotely the devices and obtain sensitive…
Demand for all types of malware has skyrocketed and keeps growing in the underground cyber-criminal markets and has already surpassed the currently supply, PTSecurity has reported. In line with the financial losses caused by malware which are increasing steadily, the…
New evolved Spectre Bug has been discovered by security researchers. The bug prays on the CPUs of victims and uses the processor in combination with Network Connections to obtain critical information. The new attack is going by the name NetSpectre…
Perhaps you know but John McAfee hasn’t been part of the company for more than 20 years. However, his name continues to be associated with it, despite his many other business endeavors. One of his most recent business ventures has…
This article is about a recent network breakdown that has impacted the services of COSCO (China Ocean Shipping Company). On the 24th of July, an unknown ransomware virus has impacted the American part of the COSCO shipping lines. The company…
EU’s fine on Google in the size of $5 billion has been followed by a wave of penalties against huge corporations. It turns out that the European Commission has issued a fine against four big manufacturers of consumer electronics –…
It’s been two years from now since Google uploaded Fuchsia online and made it public. Fuchsia is a new operating system created from scratch. It is intended to overcome some of the Android limitations. Engineers behind the project believe that…
Microsoft has released lots of fixes for the latest versions of Windows 10. More particularly, the company has released Windows 10 build 17134.191 for Windows 10 version 1803 also known as the April 2018 Update, and Build 16299.579 for Windows…
Bluetooth exploits are not anything new on the hacking horizon but they can cause security risks to vulnerable devices. A new vulnerability, identified as CVE-2018-5383, fits the description of a great threat as it is a highly critical cryptographic flaw.…
If you are a user of the Brave browser, you are probably aware that its developers announced the integration of Tor into a new private tab feature. The new functionality integrates Tor into the browser and gives users a new…
Have you heard of the Data Transfer Project (DTP)? It is a recently announced open-source, service-to-service project created by Google, in partnership with Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter. The project is in fact a data portability platform intended mainly for consumers…
