It’s a secret to no one (in the infosec world) that the exploit kit market has been rearranged to meet the current needs of malware distributors. Just several weeks ago, there was a notable malvertising incident on the popular website…
There’s a serious uptake in DDoS attacks, and as in many cyber threats, a DDoS can be carried out for political reasons. The Newsweek website just reported a heavy DDoS, and its timing is definitely not a coincidence. The website…
Have you heard of Zerodium? It’s a company that has a pretty interesting business – it buys zero-day exploits and then sells them to international government agencies. Apparently, Zerodium really wants to get hold of a series of iOS zero-days…
Instead of being stopped, a powerful kit of different types of malware, primarily Trojan horses still continues to infect Android users on a daily basis. Reports by TrendLabs at Trend Micro indicate that some apps have even managed to generate…
Linux.Mirai is a new Trojan recently found to be at fault for DdoS attacks. The malware was first registered in May, 2016, when it was detected by Dr. Web. Back then, it was added to the company’s virus databases under…
CONFUCIUS is a new malware detected by Palo Alto Network researchers. It’s a backdoor that displays quite the creativity on the cybercriminals’ side. The researchers have analyzed two samples of the malware, taken from two separate cyber espionage campaigns. In…
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has found more attempts to hack the voter registration systems of states, ahead of national elections. The agency had reportedly found evidence in August that foreign hackers had breached state election databases in Illinois…
If you’re an iPhone or iPad user (and an Apple follower), you may want to know that owners of the devices will soon see ads when using the Search option in the App store. The ads will appear at the…
News broke out that the same gang which is behind the devastating Dridex banking malware was also reported to be behind other very famous viruses as well. The gang has initially begun to distribute CryptoWall, but this was just the…
With the drone revolution aligned with the IoT (Internet of Things) more concerns arise regarding the security and proper usage of drones. The main scares to which drones are related are connected primary with collisions and crashes. But there are…
As with any other software which is coded by humans, there are also vulnerabilities in Apple’s latest operating system which is now available for an upgrade on the iPhone 7, iPhone 7 plus, iPhone 6, iPhone 6s, iPhone SE and…
Have you been wondering which today’s most prevalent cybercrime threats are? Europol has just released a vast, 72-page report called the Internet Organized Crime Threat Assessment which gives quite a detailed answer. Crime-as-a-Service According to Europol, the malware market has…
Google has just released two new tools for developers with the purpose to shield web domains from XSS scripting vulnerabilities. XSS, or cross-site scripting, is a common issue in cybersecurity. An XSS-powered attack takes place when malicious actors implement malicious…
Malware going by the name of BASHLITE has been created to cause a DDoS (Denial of Service) type of attacks by taking advantage of IoT devices, researchers report. This is not the first IoT malware that has been detected, but…
Changes in the exploit kit market indicate that currently RIG is the most deployed EK service. Apparently, RIG is taking the place of Neutrino. Since the death of Angler, the two exploit kits have been battling for the lead positon…
Virlock ransomware has apparently been updated and is now capable of propagating itself via the cloud. Hence, the ransomware can be spread negligently from one infected to another, eventually file-locking an entire network. This update seen in the code of…
OVH is a hosting company that has apparently been a victim of the biggest DDoS attack ever registered. The attack is said to have surpassed the DDoS on KrebsOnSecurity. A tweet by the company’s CTO, Octave Klaba, reveals that “you…
Komplex is, according to security researchers at Palo Alto Networks, a new Trojan for Mac OS X, which is believed to be linked to the activities of Sofacy (also known as APT28, Pawn Storm, Fancy Bear, and Sednit), a Russian…
Windows Defender Application Guard for Microsoft Edge is Microsoft’s latest attempt to improve the security of its browser and respectively Windows 10. The new addition will run Edge in a lightweight virtual machine. Shortly said, the application is powered by…
“Do not use the new Google Allo”, “ Google Allo invades your privacy” and other statements have begun to raise the eyebrows of many privacy activists and researchers. The primary concern is that the new chat bot created by Google…
