Security researchers at Kaspersky Labs recently detected a new malware framework that they called MATA. The researchers believe the MATA framework is linked to the Lazarus APT group. The MATA framework contains several components, including loader, orchestrator, and plugins, and…
The BlackRock Trojan is one of the newest Android Trojans which is rated by many to be one of the most dangerous threats to have been developed for Google’s mobile operating system. This is a banking Trojan which is believed…
An unknown hacking group has been able to hack into and breach the popular Wattpad online community, as a result users data has been hijacked and exposed. This is one of the most dangerous intrusions of late as the stolen…
The Secret Service is taking actions against cybersecurity threats by creating a special agency called the Cyber Fraud Task Force. This is a new force that is specially commissioned to -detect and prevent serious crimes, particularly those that are categorized…
Computer security analysts have uncovered that computer hackers that have hijacked the LiveAuctioneers database are offering up the stolen data on sale. This is done on the underground hacking markets. LiveAuctioneers is a large portal for putting up art and…
A dangerous RECON bug is being used by computer hackers to breach into SAP systems. This vulnerability was patched by SAP in their latest security update, and is also tracked in the CVE-2020-6287 advisory. This new wave of intrusions is…
Android phones that are being sold under an American Government Subsidized Program have been found to contain malware. The dangerous code is very difficult to detect and it is embedded deep into the Settings features of the operating system. Low-Cost…
Google Dunzo which is an on-demand delivery startup company has published an announcement stating that it has been breached by criminals. The incident message has been posted on Saturday and gives further information about the event. Computer Hackers Penetrate Google…
The Evilnum hacking group has been found to use advanced hacking tools of other well-known criminal collectives like Cobalt, FIN6 and others. This particular hacking group has been running high-impact campaigns in the past and has been active since at…
The Conti ransomware, ever since its initial release, has impacted a lot of computer systems and unlike other common malware, it includes the ability to use all available CPU threads during its execution. As more and more samples are collected,…
Account takeover (ATO) continues to be a “ubiquitous problem”, at the heart of which are compromised user credentials. According to a detailed paper by Digital Shadows Photon Research, currently approximately 15 billion credentials are circulating on hacker forums, enabling account…
The Magecart group is not the only hacking collective targeting online e-commerce stores en masse. Known as Keeper, this cybercrime group has successfully broken into online store backends to change their source code and insert malicious scripts. These scripts stole…
New exploits for Microsoft Software including the Windows operating system have been added to the Purple Fox and Magnitude Exploit Kits. These are some of the serious tools used by computer criminals in leveraging large-scale network attacks. The newly found…
Are you actively using dating apps? Then you may want to know that cybersecurity researchers just discovered 5 separate leaks of personal information of users of dating apps in the US, Japan, and South Korea. According to WizCase researchers, the…
Privacy on social media should be a top concern for online users. However, most people remain unaware of the misdeeds of social networks and app developers who often abuse their personal information. The CanaryTrap Method Helps Identify Data Misuse Fortunately,…
The Apache Guacamole remote desktop gateway has been identified to contain zero-day vulnerabilities. The identified issues are described as Reverse RDP vulnerabilities which allows criminals to take over the sessions. Identified issues are now tracked in the CVE-2020-9497 advisory. Zero-Day…
The EKANS ransomware which is known as Snake is one of the most prolific hacking tools which are used in large-scale and targeted campaigns against industrial plants. A recently discovered hacking offensive has uncovered that this malware is once again…
A new information disclosure vulnerability, CVE-2020-12418, was just discovered in Mozilla Firefox. Discovered by Cisco Talos, the vulnerability can be exploited by tricking the user into visiting a specially crafted web page via the browser. In case of a successful…
Security researchers detected a surge of sophisticated targeted attacks that originate from the well-known APT15 hacking group. The targets appear to be the Uyghur community living in China and following the incidents analysis it appears that the criminals may be…
Two out-of-band security updates were just released by Microsoft, addressing remote code execution (RCE) security flaws in Microsoft Windows Codecs Library. Several Windows 10 and Windows Server versions are affected by the vulnerabilities, which are known as CVE-2020-1425 and CVE-2020-1457.…
