Security researcher Patrick Wardle has disclosed a new security vulnerability in the latest version of macOS, Mojave, hours before the version was released. The researcher showed the privacy feature bypass in a video shared on Twitter. The original purpose of…
A security research team discovered that the sensitive data belonging to numerous breached websites have been posted on sale on the Magbo underground market. This community has been found to list many of the recently hacked major online services. Our…
User accounts belonging belonging to the popular AdGuard ad blocker have been hacked by an unknown hacker or criminal collective. The incident has prompted the company behind it to issue a mandatory password reset on all user accounts in order…
Tech Bureau which is a well-known Japanese cryptocurrency exchange has been hacked by criminals. The results of infiltration is a theft of $60M worth of digital assets. This is a e yet another report of a successful operation against such…
The Sustes malware is a custom virus that was recently discovered in a global infection. It infects via a unique mechanism and is designed to load a cryptocurrency miner infection onto the target systems. At the moment the made impact…
Remember the Equifax breach? The major security havoc affected one of the largest credit reporting companies operating in the USA. As a result of the malicious intrusion, cybercriminals were able to obtain information on millions of users worldwide. The data…
The Bitcoin Core software has been patched to fix a critical vulnerability that could have crashed the network. The changelog and statement released by the development team shows that the problem lies in the possibility for a DoS (denial-of-service) attack.…
The infamous criminal collective known as Magecart has successfully infiltrated the Newegg site and stole the stored payment card details stored by the company’s customers. This is a critical breach into the online merchant’s systems as the criminals were able…
CVE-2018-1149 is a new stack buffer overflow zero-day vulnerability which endangers IoT video and security camera. Also known as Peekaboo, the zero-day is affecting security cameras and surveillance equipment that use the NUUO software. If exploited, the flaw could allow…
How does a self-spreading malware with cryptomining and ransomware capabilities sound to you? Entirely hypothetical? Not at all. This new malware strain exists and is a real threat not only to Windows servers but also to Linux. It is dubbed…
Quite the peculiar botnet was detected in the wild by Qihoo researchers. The botnet, dubbed Fbot and based on the code of Satori, appears to be “just going after and removing another botnet com.ufo.miner”. Fbot is displaying other forms of…
Apple has released a new set of security fixes that address vulnerabilities in Safari, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS. It should be noted that some of the vulnerabilities were disclosed before the security updates, which opened a loophole for threat actors.…
CCleaner is once again being criticized. The software is forcing an update to the latest version, 7.00, even in cases when users have configured it not to undergo automatic updates. On top of that, once the upgrade is done, the…
A denial-of-service vulnerability typical for older versions of Windows has resurfaced in the operating system. The security flaw has been dubbed FragmentSmack (identical to SegmentSmack in Linux) and has been given the CVE-2018-5391 identifier. As explained in Microsoft’s advisory, “an…
The Bristol Airport in the UK has become a victim of a ransomware attack. As a result, the airport’s in-house TV screens needed to display arrival and departure flight information were affected and literally blacked out. The attack happened several…
It’s not a secret that modern apps often become a target of cyberattacks. Gartner reports that 95% of web applications experience attacks because of stolen user passwords. This means a set of symbols is no longer a reliable way of…
Following last year’s disclosure of the BlueBorne vulnerability security experts note that about 2 billion Bluetooth devices are still affected by it. BlueBorne is a collection of bugs that allow the hackers to intrude into them. Many of these devices…
A new tech support scam involving Google Chrome has been detected. Apparently, the scam is using a novel technique to hijack the browsing sessions of Chrome users. The scam relies on well-known tricks such as browser locking where the user…
Another day, another vulnerability. Intel has just released firmware updates for a vulnerability (CVE-2018-3655) in the Intel Converged Security and Manageability Engine (CSME). The security flaw enables threat actors to recover, modify, or delete data stored on Intel’s CPU chip-on-chip…
Computer criminals are constantly looking our for ways to infect computer systems at large. A recent security audit has revealed that hackers are using a 2008 cold boot attack which is still found in modern computers from all major vendors.…
