Année : 2018

Introduction GandCrab ransomware was first reported on Friday 2018-01-26.  Since then, we’ve seen it distributed by campaigns using exploit kits and HoeflerText popup windows.  But today on Wednesday 2018-02-07, we’ve also seen GandCrab ransomware distributed through malicious spam (malspam).  Today’s GandCrab is a file-less infection using a DLL file called […]

Malware Chewed Up CPU of HMI at Wastewater Facility Cryptocurrency mining malware worked its way onto four servers connected to an operational technology (OT) network at a wastewater facility in Europe, industrial cybersecurity firm Radiflow told SecurityWeek Wednesday. Radiflow says the incident is the first documented cryptocurrency malware attack to […]

As it turns out, turning off location services (e.g., GPS) on your smartphone doesn’t mean an attacker can’t use the device to pinpoint your location. A group of Princeton University researchers has devised of a novel user-location mechanism that exploits non-sensory and sensory data stored on the smartphone (the environment’s […]

A change meant to improve Google Chrome performance will also indirectly impact cryptojacking scripts (in-browser cryptocurrency miners) and will severely reduce their efficiency. According to a design document seen by Bleeping Computer, Google engineers plan to limit the CPU power some types of JS scripts running in the browser’s background […]

The Autosploit hacking tool was developed aiming to automate the compromising of remote hosts both by collecting automatically targets as well as by using Shodan.io API. Users can define its platform search queries like Apache, IIS and so forth to gather targets to be attacked. After gathering the targets, the tool […]

It recently came to light that cybercriminals have been deceiving ‘Reddit’ users into voluntarily handing over their usernames and passwords. Why would anyone do that of their own free will you might ask? It all comes down to a simple typo – reddit.co instead of reddit.com When users accidentally type […]

Netherlands police’s high-tech crime unit has arrested an 18-year-old man on suspicion of launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on the Dutch tax authority, tech site Tweakers, and internet service provider Tweak. The police said the teenager, known only as ‘Jelle S’, is also suspected of attacking the online bank Bunq. […]