Année : 2018

The US State Department confirmed that hackers breached one of its email systems, the attack potentially exposed personal information of some of its employees. The incident seems to have affected less than 1% of employee inboxes, 600-700 employees out of 69,000 people. “The Department recently detected activity of concern in its unclassified email […]

Sustes Malware doesn’t infect victims by itself, but it is spread via brute-force activities with special focus on IoT and Linux servers. Today I’d like to share a simple analysis based on a fascinating threat that I like to call Sustes (you will see name genesis in a bit). Everybody knows Monero […]

Adobe releases a critical out-of-band patch for CVE-2018-12848 Acrobat flaw, the security updates address a total of 7 vulnerabilities. Adobe address seven vulnerability in Acrobat DC and Acrobat Reader DC, including one critical vulnerability that could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code. “Adobe has released security updates for Adobe […]

Certains clients de Newegg auraient eu leur numéro de carte de crédit, alors que le groupe de piratage Magecart frappe à nouveau. Les chercheurs en sécurité RiskIQ ont déclaré mercredi que Magecart avait inséré un code malveillant dans le système de paiement du détaillant de matériel et d’électronique et qu’il […]

A new phishing attack discovered by Malwarebytes is said to be from under a new campaign, utilizing an old trick with an end goal to steal login credentials, payment details and other sensitive data from victims by claiming to offer them a tax refund which must be asserted online. The […]

Three men who operated and controlled the notorious Mirai botnet have been sentenced to five years of probation. The Mirai botnet notoriously launched a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on DNS service company Dyn in October 2016 and made it impossible for many users to reach popular sites such as Amazon, Reddit, […]

Database has now been secured. Server was also ransomed by a criminal group back in June. On Monday, a security researcher specialized in finding exposed databases has identified an unsecured MongoDB server that was leaking the personal details of nearly 11 million users. The server appears to belong to an […]