Google, being the tech giant it is, has decided to significantly boost the security of it’s notebooks running Chrome OS. Amongst the new features, there will soon be a fingerprint scanned and a PIN code used to unlock the device.…
A collaborative operation of Europol, Italian forces and Romanian police has resulted in the successful arrests of 7 men in Italy and Romania. In addition to this, there were also 14 suspects that were detained in the arrests. The forces…
It shouldn’t come to no one’s surprise that no place on the Web is safe – forums of porn sites the least. Still, however, such occurrence shouldn’t become the hackneyed scenario to which everyone has gotten used to. Amidst terrorism…
It’s already been 13 years since the powerful Blaster worm has hit the world. This may have yet been the first malware that attacked computers that were connected to important machines and institutions. Back then, many Windows XP systems were…
Have you been impatiently looking forward to Mr. Robot’s second season? Do you always have questions about the hacks that take place during the show? Are you often pausing to have a closer look at what’s written on that PC…
A man from El Portal, Florida was arrested for gaining unauthorized access to the kernel.org (Linux Kernel) servers. According to the court, the hacker Ryan Austin used credentials to the servers of what appears to be an employee associated with…
Many services we use on a daily basis turn out to be quite buggy. This time our attention was caught by a vulnerability in the Yandex Browser, built on Chromium, which could have allowed attackers to steal users’ browsing history,…
MirrorLink by Connected Car Consortium is the first industry standard for connecting smartphones to in-vehicle infotainment systems (IVI). A recent comprehensive research, titled ‘A Security Analysis of an In Vehicle Infotainment and App Platform’ and carried out by Damon McCoy,…
Have you ever clicked on a random link in your inbox or in a Facebook message? Despite knowing the risks? Well, you are not alone! A study by researchers at Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, discovered that people still…
Troy Hunt, owner of HaveIBeenPwned, just reported that 71,000 user accounts and IP addresses have been leaked from a Minecraft fan website (minecraftworldmap(.)com). The dumps include email addresses, IP addresses, usernames and passwords associated with that site. The leaked passwords…
A new spam campaign delivering the Ozone RAT has been detected targeting German-speaking users. The attack is spread via malicious Office documents. However, instead of the well-known macro malware, the operation ends with the installation of Ozone. Interestingly, users are…
Imagine there is a currently exploitable bug in Google. Well, truth is you don’t need to imagine it because it is already there! British security researcher Aidan Woods just disclosed an issue found on Google’s login page. This issue enables…
A new ransomware virus has been reported to cause damage to web servers based on Linus. This virus, dubbed Fairware, does not use a direct encryption approach. Unlike other ransomware for web servers, the malware directly eliminates the web folder…
The malware writers behind the Locky and Zepto ransomware projects proved once again that they are working all the time not only to infect more and more users and remain on top of the ransomware chart, but they are also…
Have you been impatiently looking forward to Mr. Robot’s second season? Do you always have questions about the hacks that take place during the show? Are you often pausing to have a closer look at what’s written on that PC…
An industry analyst report by Forcepoint and Ponemon Institute, titled “The 2016 Study on the Insecurity of Privileged Users” has come to some troubling revelations. The study is based on results of a recent survey of some 704 IT operations…
Open-source ransomware is a real issue which is continuously evolving. Over the past few weeks, researchers have caught three open-source crypto virus strains, based on Hidden Tear and EDA2. What all of the three strains have in common is that…
September is expected to be a month riddled with malware. We have already seen several banking Trojans, some new and some renewed, and a strong wave of CrySiS/ Troldesh ransomware variants. However, this is far from everything happening on the…
Have you ever thought that a botnet of Android devices could be controlled via Twitter? This is no longer a theory because it has already happened, as disclosed by researchers at ESET. The botnet, dubbed Android/Twitoor or just Twitoor is…
GozNym, the banking Trojan that was detected in April 2016, has been just caught once again in a new active campaign. This time victims of the banker are German users. Researchers at IBM X-Force say that the Trojan has been…
