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…
The official announcement of the discontinuing of the Skype Classic version of the program is already a fact, scheduled for 1st of September, 2018. The 2018 version, called Skype Classic has been reported to no longer be supported after the…
A new botnet has been detected by security researchers at NewSky security, with their discovery being confirmed by researchers from Qihoo 360 Netlab, Rapid7, and Greynoise. The botnet in question has compromised more than 18,000 routers in a single day,…
Cisco has released more fixes for a range of critical and high severity vulnerabilities found in several groups of products – Policy Suite, SD-WAN, and Nexus. Let’s have a closer look at the Policy Suite flaws. Vulnerabilities in Cisco Policy…
The South Korean company Ahnlab has developed a Killswitch for the latest version of the virus, calling itself v4.1.2, causing the ransomware to stop functioning. Ahnlab has reportedly analyzed the internal version 4.1.2 of GandCrab ransomware, which is part of…
Microsoft is initiating a bug bounty program that is focused on customer security. The program is called Identity Bounty Program and it will offer bounties ranging from $500 to $100,000 for unveiling security vulnerability in the company’s identity services. What…
Blackgear is a previously detected cyber espionage campaign that dates back to 2008. The malware has been known to target organizations in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, with the targets primarily being public sector agencies and high-tech companies. According to…
It is a trend that is not going away – cybercriminals will always be attempting to circumvent security defenses with the assistance of increasingly sophisticated techniques. This leads us to the so-called fileless malware where the effectiveness of an attack…
Yet another vulnerability, identified as CVE-2018-0369, in Cisco software has been patched. Rated severe, the flaw is described as an IPv4 Fragmentation vulnerability which could lead to a denial of service if used with three other medium severity bugs. CVE-2018-0369…
GitHub has been known to support JavaScript and Ruby by providing security alerts, and now the same becomes valid for Python. In other words, GitHub has updated its security alerts feature by adding support for Python projects. This relatively new…
Dorkbot, a 6-year-old banking malware has resurfaced in the wild to become a major threat, according to recent reports. The Dorkbot banking malware reportedly started its malicious activity back in 2012 but now it seems as if this virus has…
A highly targeted malware campaign targeting iPhone users in India has been unearthed by Cisco Talos security researchers. The campaign has been active since August 2015 and is spying on 13 specific iPhones. The attackers who were most likely operating…
After all the noise and headache, Facebook is finally (about to be) fined – in the U.K at least, where the company has to pay £500,000 ($664,000). The decision comes after the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) concluded the social…
A new form of malware, combining the two most prominent threats out there – cryptocurrency mining and ransomware has been detected to check which is the appropriate type of virus to be installed on your PC and then installs either…
