The researchers from Tel Aviv University and Weizmann Institute of science, called Daniel Genkin, Adi Shamir, Eran Tromer were able to break the toughest encryption used by most ransomware viruses – RSA – 4096 bits. The revolutionizing cyber-attack was performed…
Microsoft Edge, the browser that was supposed to win over users and beat competition, is not as popular as one would think. New data shows that a minority of people that are currently running Windows 10 have chosen to use…
We have been quite curious about what is currently happening with Windows 10. There has already been enough controversy in regards of the new update policy of Microsoft’s latest. A new spicy ingredient has just been added to the pot…
Name Type Trojan Short Description Read and write permissions in Windows 10. Allows the attacker to infect other PC connected to the infected one. Symptoms Appearing of an unfamiliar .exe file. Distribution Method Spam mails. MiTM attacks, malicious redirects. Detection…
A new Russian malware has surfaced the Web. It is called Hammertoss and is a malware strain with backdoor capabilities. Hammertoss is attributed to a Russian group called APT29 and has been discovered by researchers at FireEye Inc. They have…
KB3081424 is a Microsoft’s cumulative update for Windows 10. It has already been blamed to cause issues for numerous users. The update is reported to put systems into a never-ending loop of crashes. Basically, it keeps on trying to install…
Upgrading to Windows 10 may be an easy job… unless you stumble upon an activation error. Many errors of the kind have already been reported by users, attempting to switch to Windows latest. Users that have upgraded for free to…
Many businesses already began adopting Windows 10 in their work environment. When the free upgrade from Windows 8, 8.1 and 7 has been made available, Win10 is about to become widely used in personal computers. That is why we decided…
Windows Update KB3022345, or DiagTrack, was released on May 14, 2015. It raised quite the suspicion since it was set to collect sensitive information from machines it was installed on. Even though the data collection was for diagnostics reasons, many…
Earlier this year – in March – a macro-based malware called Bartalex was detected. Macro-based attacks exploiting Microsoft Word and Excel keep on occurring even though the technique can be described as ‘an old trick’ that has been around for…
Hacking Team is now selling their surveillance system Galileo. This software is said to be able to hack any mobile software, including iOS, Windows Phone, Android, Symbian and Blackberry. However, there have been reports that it can also affect Windows…
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…
