Black Friday is a reminder that the winter holidays are near. Christmas means presents, presents mean shopping, which for various reasons often happens online. Unfortunately, the ever increasing number of people shopping online means more scams specifically designed to target…
What malware researchers usually encounter in their daily malware analyses is reused code. As a matter of fact, reusing code is something all developers tend to do, malicious coders inclusive. Most new malware is in fact reused, re-branded source code…
Have you heard about the accidental freeze of $300 million worth of Ether that happened to the Parity wallet? Already called the biggest cryptocurrency loss in the short life of cryptocurrencies, this event is not a classical hack. The money…
Web-based scripts and downloaded viruses deliver cryptocurrency miners that take advantage of the available system resources. The criminal operators have resorted into making multiple versions that include varied functionality. Our article lists the top 5 cryptocurrency miners that are actively…
Ever since the Emotet Trojan was launched against computers worldwide a few years ago criminals have utilized in their attacks. Throughout the years its code has changed and removal attempts may not be always successful. Our article illustrates some of…
A brilliant new technology was developed that may completely transform e-mails sent to victims by scammers. Named “Re:scam” the AI bot has a wide database of different personalities which aim to imitate how an actual human replies to an e-mail.…
The only real constant in cybersecurity is change. With that in mind, let’s take a look forward at how that will come into effect in 2018. It’s been quite a year, hasn’t it? From the news that Russian hackers may…
Computer security researchers released the Q3 2017 virus report indicating the latest threats which signals the intentions of the hackers that are behind the malware. The quarterly report gives insight on where the criminals are headed and how they have…
A new banking Trojan has been reported IBM X-Forse team – the IcedID Trojan. According to researchers, the piece emerged in the wild in September last year. This is when its first campaigns took place. The Trojan has sophisticated capabilities…
New statistics reveal that 2,531 of the top 3 million websites are running the Coinhive miner, which amounts to 1 in 1,000 websites. To no one’s surprise, BitTorrent websites are the main perpetrators. But they are not the only ones.…
Plausibly 1 out of 5 feedback reports from Chrome desktop users is about encountering unwanted redirects and content, Ryan Schoen from Google has shared. Because Google is always trying to improve user experience, Chrome will soon be blocking several types…
Quantum encryption is one of the trendiest topics in cybersecurity practice and theory. In essence it uses the principles of quantum mechanism to secure message transmissions. One of the distinct advantage related to its use is the fact that it…
14 flaws in Linux kernel USB drivers were just disclosed by Google researcher Andrey Konovalov. The researcher found the vulnerabilities by deploying a kernel fuzzler known as syzkaller. The “14 vulnerabilities found with syzkaller in the Linux kernel USB subsystem……
The APT28 hacking group, also known as Fancy Bear, has initiated a global attack campaign using infected documents that refer to the recent terrorist attacks in New York. The criminal collective is using a recent vulnerability affecting a component of…
Medical and non-medical chips are entering our lives despite the controversy they are surrounded by. Unfortunately, many people willing to participate in such programs are forgetting the civil and privacy issues that must be addressed by system designers, innovators, regulators,…
Security experts discovered the dangerous TorMoil Tor Browser Vulnerability which has recently been fixed in the latest version of the application. All users of the hidden network application are urged to apply the critical update as soon as possible. Related…
One of the last times we heard of the Panda ZeuS Trojan was in June, 2017. Apparently, the banking Trojan has been used yet again in new malicious campaigns, as reported by Cisco Talos researchers. However, there is a difference…
WordPress admins, beware. Websites running on WordPress version 4.8.2 and earlier should update immediately to version 4.8.3. Security researcher Anthony Ferrara has reported an SQL injection vulnerability in the platform allowing for websites to be taken over and exploited. Even…
Silence is the name of a new Trojan (and the hacking group behind it), discovered in September by Kaspersky Lab researchers. The targeted attack is set against financial institutions, and at this point its victims are primarily Russian banks, as…
Phishing campaigns drive most of the malicious attacks in the wild, and as it turns out, cybercriminals have found an efficient way to optimize their effect. A new study reveals that attackers often re-use phishing websites across multiple hosts by…
