Monthly Archives: March 2017
Over 8.3 million live websites using IIS 6.0 are affected by a Zero-Day
Millions of websites are affected by a buffer overflow zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-7269, that resides in the IIS 6.0. The II6 6.0 zero-day flaw was discovered by two researchers with the Information […]
Google hacker found a third flaw in the LastPass password manager in a few weeks
The Google hacker Tavis Ormandy discovered a third flaw in LastPass password manager in a few weeks, the expert provided a few details about the issue. A couple of weeks […]
Top German official said Germany blocked Russian APT28 cyber attacks in 2016
According to a German top official, Germany warded off two cyber attacks launched by the Russian state actor APT28 group in 2016. On Friday, a top German official told Reuters that […]
Data breach – Are you an Android Forums user? Resets your passwords now.
Android Forums notified a data breach, according to the moderators at the site roughly 2.5 percent of users have been affected. Android Forums is the last victim of a data […]
Machete espionage campaign continues to target LATAM countries
The threat group behind the Machete cyber espionage campaign first spotted in 2014 continues to target entities in Spanish-speaking countries. According to the researchers at security firm Cylance Threat actors behind the […]
Once again Three mobile customers in UK experienced data breach
UK Three mobile customers experienced a new data breach, this time a technical issue caused the exposure of their personal details. It has happened again, customers of the company Three […]
Kirk ransomware – A Star Trek Themed Ransomware that requests Monero payments
The researchers have discovered a new piece of ransomware featuring a Star Trek theme, dubbed Kirk ransomware, the first one accepting Monero payments. Ransomware continues to be one of the most profitable cyber threats, […]
Global DDoS Threat Landscape Q4 2016 – US, UK and Netherlands top attacked countries
Imperva published the Global DDoS Threat Landscape Q4 2016, according to the experts the US, the UK and Netherlands are top attacked countries. Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks continue to […]
New MajikPOS Malware targets users across North America
Trend Micro has discovered a new PoS malware, tracked as MajikPOS, that is targeting business in North America and Canada. Security experts at Trend Micro have discovered a new PoS […]
Flaws in MAC address randomization implemented by vendors allow mobile tracking
Researchers devised a new attack method that can be leveraged to track mobile devices that rely on MAC address randomization mechanism. The MAC address is a unique and an hardcoded identifier assigned […]
Check Point experts spotted pre-Installed Android Malware on 38 Android devices
Experts discovered pre-installed malware on 38 high-end smartphone models belonging to popular manufacturing companies such as Samsung, LG, Xiaomi and Asus. In the past, security experts have already reported cases of pre-installed […]
INTERPOL World 2017 builds up momentum with strong support from public and private sectors
SINGAPORE – The second edition of INTERPOL World has garnered strong support from public and private sectors, both locally and on the international front. Owned by INTERPOL, the world’s largest […]
WikiLeaks releases documents detailing CIA hacking tools and capabilities
WikiLeaks has obtained thousands of files allegedly originating from a CIA high-security network that details CIA hacking tools and capabilities WikiLeaks announced on Tuesday that it has obtained thousands of […]
A bug in Twitter allowed hackers to access to locked accounts until October
A flaw in Twitter allowed attackers to access locked accounts bypassing the locking mechanism implemented by the company. A flaw in the Twitter application allowed, until a few months ago, […]
Talos team spotted a PowerShell malware that uses DNS queries to contact the C&C server
Researchers from Cisco Talos team spotted a new strain of malware that leverages PowerShell scripts to fetch commands from DNS TXT records. Malware researchers at Cisco Talos have published a detailed […]
German foreign intelligence service Spied on Foreign Journalists since 1999
A new report from Der Spiegel the German foreign intelligence service spied on journalists from BBC, New York Times and Reuters since 1999. Journalists from the BBC, Reuters and New York […]
The Gamaredon Group is back with new weapons in its arsenal
The Russian state-actor dubbed Gamaredon is back and has been using a custom-developed malware in a new cyber espionage campaign. According to the experts from Palo Alto Networks, a Russian […]