Vulnerability in iPhones and iPads allows hackers to switch legitimate applications with malicious ones that could grant access to personal information. Security experts with FireEye report that the flaw, which they have dubbed Masque Attack, makes large amounts of personal…
A joint operation by the law enforcement agencies in sixteen European countries and the US took down 410 underground websites. So far, this is one of the biggest attacks against dark market websites on the Tor network. The Tor network…
As we all know and are aware, most phishing hacker attacks are being performed by automated bot machines instead of living humans. A statistics in a recent study on the subject Google released shows that the so-called ‘manual hijacking‘ might…
Customers of amazon.co.uk are being targeted by scam emails with attached malicious Microsoft Word documents. The messages claim to contain details on the transportation of an order, having the package number in the subject field. Over 600 000 Malicious Emails…
Two days ago, on 5th November this year, Palo Alto Network researchers published an announcement that they have come across a new malware infecting iOS and Mac OS X software applications. The malware seems to be spreading out of a…
As we wrote last month, a recent discovery of the Palo Alto Networks security researchers detected that a malware, aiming to steal bank credentials, information and certificates, used a long time ago, has been activated again. It is a modification…
Researchers with Palo Alto Networks have discovered a new malware family affecting Apple OS X and iOS. Dubbed WireLurker, the malware compromises even non-jailbroken iOS devices. This is the first malware type that infects iOS apps in a manner a…
In a blog post from Monday, 3 November, 2014 researchers in Fortinet announce that they have recently come across a new version of the notorious Backoff PoS malware, called ROM. The new version is a very precise compared to the…
Security researchers warn that an unpatched flaw in some of the earlier versions of OS X and Yosemite lets criminals take over the compromised machine. The escalation vulnerability dubbed Rootpipe allows the hackers to gain root access to the affected…
A malicious email claiming to be from Windows Outlook message informs users about mailbox infection with the C93 virus. The email is supposed to scare the receiver and lure him into following the link that will provide him with the…
Security experts with Bitdefender warn about a new wave of Rovnix Trojan infections targeting confidential information. Over 130 000 computers have been compromised in the UK so far. Analysts label this campaign as one of the most successful ones in…
A new tool for security network testing called Nogotofail, was released by Google yesterday. It is open-sourced and intended for users who wish to contribute to the Internet security improvement. It is designed to strengthen weak TLS connections and check…
Over 560 Internet crime complaints regarding spam e-mails, receiving have been filed in the USA IC3 Internet Crime Complaint Center on November 3 this year. The complaints consists of that a lot of E-ZPass users – a system, combining more…
Users who have visited the music news website spin.com two weeks ago and didn’t have the latest patches may have become victims to a drive-by download attack delivered through a RIG exploit kit. The moment the exploit kit discovers a…
Experts report that the number of computers infected with Poweliks Trojan has been growing recently. The primary distribution technique at the moment is through spam, but the cyber criminals are using other methods as well. Details on the Poweliks Trojan…
Despite all warnings, it seems impossible to get college kids to stop using Snapchat. A firm that delivers services only to users with email addresses ending on .edu called Sumpto, has recently released a report announcing that over 100 000…
A 20-year-old Austrian penetration tester claims that the credentials of Sony Playstation Network users might not be safe due to a blind SQL injection vulnerability in the website. Aria Akhavan explains that the bug could let attackers collect information from…
On October, 31 last week Facebook announced that they are making the network directly accessible for users as a Tor Hidden Service. What Tor does is offering anonymity for users offering and using different web-services over the Internet. Connecting to…
Microsoft had taken a decision to launch the new edition of Office for Mac in the second half of 2015. This will most probably result in the company’s extended support for the Office for Mac 2011. On the last Friday…
A new way to infect computers with malicious software has been found by Wade Williamson, a security researcher in the Shape Security startup company. What he says is that this attack is actually a similar version of the Remote Access…
