CryptoWall – the King of the Ransomware Kingdom CryptoWall can easily be defined as the most successful ransomware that continues to target both businesses and users on a global level. The techniques CrytoWall employs to target systems vary in sophistication…
A suspicious email campaign possibly associated with SwiftOption has been detected recently. The user first receives an email with an attached .zip file and a subject line ‘A new form’. Our research indicates that the sender of the initial email…
Researchers at TrendMicro have discovered MalumPoS – an attack tool designed to breach any PoS (Point of Sale) system. Presently, the PoS RAM scraper is set to harvest data from PoS systems running on Oracle® MICROS®. The platform is commonly…
Microsoft has already announced its Edge Project, advertising it as the ideal replacement for Internet Explorer. The new Microsoft Edge browser is also defined as more competitive on the browser market, right next to Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. As…
Punkey Malware has been classified as a point-of-sale threat named after the popular 1980’s Punky Brewster sitcom. The Punkey Malware has been set to deploy an aggressive point-of-sale scheme aimed at extracting personal data such as credit card details. Security…
When a web browser is facing a major update, there are two decisions that developers usually face: whether to optimize the code or to add new features to the browser. It all sounds great up until the moment when the…
One of the latest updates released by Microsoft Windows for Windows versions 7 and 8 has raised a red flag in online security communes. Several users have complained and shared experiences through forum posts. Their primary concern is they have…
More and more enterprises are relying on external research teams to deal with security issues and vulnerabilities in a range of products. One of the latest news on the matter concerns Google Chrome. Google has recently paid about $38,330 to…
Malicious browser extensions are considered a quite frequent problem among users worldwide. To deal with the issue, Google has announced that, starting this July, Chrome extensions outside the Web Store will no longer be accessible for both Windows and Mac…
Epic Scale can be described as a crypto-currency mining tool marked by many antivirus programs as a potentially unwanted application (PUP). Once on your computer, it makes you a part of a Litecoin farm, generating revenue for third parties. Since…
Angler Exploit Kit has once again proved itself to be the most advanced exploit kit available today. As reported by Cisco, more than 10 000 malicious sub-domains were found on GoDaddy accounts. The reason for the extremely high number of…
Both Lenovo and Microsoft have taken action to remove from Windows the root certificate installed by the highly criticized Superfish application, which is used to generate certificates for every web page that uses HTTPS connection. The Superfish app is not…
Dell researchers report about a new piece of malware, dubbed Skeleton Key, which can bypass authentication on Active Directory systems. The Dell team says that the Skeleton Key allow the attackers to avoid detection by AD systems with single factor…
Hackers continue to take advantage of the recently discovered zero-day exploit in Adobe Flash to attack victims via BEDEP malware this time. What Is a Zero-day Exploit? A “zero-day exploit” (attack, threat, etc.) occurs during the time when a new…
The SoakSoak malware is now employing new tactics and has recently infected a new batch of websites. The attackers have also changed the Javascript code they inject in the targeted web pages. Thousands of websites infected with SoakSoak were blacklisted…
A new piece of malware employing remarkable trickery and stealth has been released in the wild recently. The threat is dubbed “f0xy” and was first noticed by Websence. The Strategy of F0xy What makes the new malware particularly hazardous is…
Security experts with Kaspersky Lab report that a brand new strain of the infamous ZeuS Trojan is hitting banking systems over the world. The new threat Trojan-Banker.Win32.Chthonic, or just Chthonic, has already affected a hundred and fifty banks and twenty…
OphionLocker, a brand new file-encrypting malware relying on ECC (elliptic curve cryptography) has been spotted in the wild. This public-key crypto method uses two keys – public and private one. The public is used for locking the files, and the…
The growing number of browser vulnerabilities is what’s on IT security managers minds these days. With the increasing number of such vulnerabilities, 72% out of 685 IT managers state that this is what is threatening the security in their organization…
AliExpress is a wholesale online market part of the Chinese Alibaba Group. It has been established in 2010 and is one of the most visited in Russia. According to Chinese Internet News – a leading news source of China news…
