Mirai is not the biggest IoT worm anymore, as a battle is forming between the remains of the infamous botnet and a newly emerging family dubbed Hajime. Initially discovered in October 2016, Hajime uses unsecured devices with open Telnet ports…
Oracle has just issued a patch addressing a whole lot of vulnerabilities, 299 to be particular. This patch is making a new record, breaking last year’s July patch of 276 flaws. The company has addressed 39 MySQL and 39 Oracle…
BankBot is back, once again bypassing the security measures of Google Play Store. The banking Trojan landed for the first time in January this year, when attackers used the source code of an unnamed Android banker. Attackers took the code…
Microsoft has reportedly stopped to support AMD and Intel 7th generation software updates for Windows 7 and 8.1 versions since April this year. The updates which are stopped are exclusively for the newer generation processors of Intel and AMD. Anyone…
Yet another phishing scam involving LinkedIn has been detected. The scheme is trying to trick users of the professional network to upload their CVs. Scammers are sending emails about alleged “job openings for active LinkedIn users”. Related: LinkedIn Data Breach:…
A powerful botnet infection, going by the name Kelihos has been reported to be taken down by authorities and all of it’s infrastructure to be shut down. It’s “administrator” Peter Severa also known as Pyotr Levasho has been arrested Sunday…
A vulnerability used by the trojan horse Dridex to infect computers has been detected and reported to take advantage of Microsoft Word files. A large e-mail campaign spreading the Dridex trojan horse using a new Microsoft Word exploit has been…
An infection was discovered to even be able to exploit Windows 10 machines with latest updates, taking advantage of Mircosoft Office zero-day exploit. News have appeared of a flaw which takes advantage of absolutely all versions of Microsoft Office software.…
News broke out of a malware called BrickerBot that is new type of bricker virus that It takes control of IoT devices with vulnerabilities to disable them. Report by NetworkWorld magazine has indicated that the malware is also known as…
Security firm ESET has reported new attacks associated with an iteration of Sathurbot, a backdoor Trojan that has infected more than 20,000 users. Researchers say that the backdoor has been active since June, 2016, and has been using illegal torrents…
A recently released report by WatchGuard Technologies indicates that approximately 20 percent of today’s malware is new and zero-day-related. This simply means that traditional antivirus programs didn’t succeed in detecting and blocking the threats. The researchers gathered threat data from…
If you’re a Windows 10 user it’s very likely you’ve been wondering about the type of data being collected by Microsoft. The company has finally revealed this information as part of its mission to deal with privacy-related criticism and comply…
A new bug affecting Wi-Fi chips by Broadcom, the supplier for iPhones, Nexus and Samsung devices has been discovered by Google’s Project Zero. More particularly, researcher Gal Baniamini has provided a detailed analysis on the exploit showing how an attacker…
Remember the No More Ransom project? Launched in July 2016 with the collaborative efforts by Europol, the Dutch National Police, Intel Security (currently McAfee) and Kaspersky Lab, the project seeks to fight ransomware and help its victims. Since it was…
Nowadays, all your devices can be hacked, your IoT sex toys included. Security researchers from Pen Test Partners have made the troublesome discovery that an Internet-connected vibrator equipped with a camera can be hacked without a hitch. As a result,…
CVE-2017-7269 is a buffer overflow vulnerability that is currently being exploited in the wild. Unfortunately, Microsoft doesn’t plan on fixing the flaw because the victims are running unsupported software. The vulnerability was discovered by researchers at South China University of…
Phishing attempts are constantly being improved and made more sophisticated and personalized. Currently, carefully crafted spear phishing emails are being spread posing as airlines and financial departments. The attempts go so far that they imitate internal corporate travel and expenses…
New Android ransomware has been discovered, and apparently no mobile antivirus program has been able to detect it. The ransomware was discovered in a popular app called “OK”, a Russian-based entertainment social network app available in Google Play store. Interestingly,…
VMware has released a security advisory regarding several critical vulnerabilities that were demonstrated during the recent Pwn2Own hacking content. The flaws could be exploited to escape from the isolation of virtual machines, researchers explain. The teams were awarded $105,000 for…
A leak on Wikileaks, part of the “Vault 7” segment has recently became famous for tricks used by the Central Intelligence Agency to hack Apple devices. Those were targeted at Apple MacOS and iOS mobile devices. And not only this…
