New Hakai IoT botnet takes aim at D-Link, Huawei, and Realtek routers After silently growing in the shadows for months, a new IoT botnet is now making its presence felt online, popping up on more and more security researchers’ radars in the past two weeks. Tracked by the infosec community […]
Année : 2018
T-MOBILE CONFIRME AVOIR SUBI UN VOL DE DONNÉES PERSONNELLES DE SES CLIENTS
T-Mobile a confirmé, le 20 août, que plus de deux millions de ses clients sont concernés par un vol de données personnelles suite à une intrusion au sein de ses serveurs. Les informations divulguées comprennent le nom des clients, le code postal de facturation, le numéro de téléphone, l’adresse électronique, le […]
Wireshark fixed three flaws that can crash it via malicious packet trace files
The Wireshark team has addressed three serious vulnerabilities that could be exploited by a remote unauthenticated attacker to crash the analyzer. The Wireshark development team has fixed three serious flaws that could be exploited by a remote unauthenticated attacker to trigger a DoS condition in the world’s most popular network […]
Barack Obama’s Blackmail Virus Ransomware Only Encrypts .EXE Files
Every once in a while you come across a really strange malware and such is the case with a new ransomware that only encrypts .EXE files on a computer. It then displays a screen with a picture of President Obama that asks for a « tip » to decrypt the files. Barack Obama’s […]
Hackers Abusing Windows Management Interface Command Tool to Deliver Malware That Steal Email Account Passwords
Cybercriminals are continuing to innovate and use legitimate tools to deliver the malicious file, with this new campaign attacker used WMIC (Windows Management Interface Command) to deliver the information-stealing malware. WMIC is a command line interface that allows users to run WMI operations, which used to get the status of the […]
Multiple Wireshark DOS Vulnerabilities Allows a Remote Attacker to Crash Vulnerable Installations
Wireshark issued security patches for three critical vulnerabilities that allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to crash the vulnerable installations leads to DoS condition. Wireshark is the most famous open source network protocol analyzer used by organizations and individuals for analyzing network packets and displaying detailed information about them. Cisco demonstrates […]
Cobalt cybercrime gang targets Russian and Romanian banks
On August 13, ASERT observed the Cobalt crime gang actively pushing a new campaign aimed at institutions in eastern Europe and Russia. Security experts from Netscout’s ASERT uncovered a new campaign carried out by the Cobalt cybercrime group. The attacks were detected on August 13, 2018, experts revealed that the hackers targeted also the NS Bank […]
CryptoNar Ransomware Discovered and Quickly Decrypted
This week a new CryptoJoker ransomware variant was discovered called CryptoNar that has infected victims. The good news, is that a free decryptor was quickly released so that these victims can get their files back for free. This ransomware was first discovered by MalwareHunterTeam and at first glance it looks like a ransomware with little to […]
Cosmos Bank SWIFT/ATM US$13.5 Million Cyber Attack Detection Using Security Analytics
Introduction The Securonix Threat Research team recently learned of a new high-profile cyber attack targeting SWIFT/ATM infrastructure of Cosmos Bank (COSDINBB), a 112-year old cooperative bank in India and the second largest in the country, resulting in over US$13.5 million stolen [1,2]. Below is a summary of what we currently […]
Federal prosecutors indicted a 20-year-old man who built the Satori botnet
A youngster (20) from Washington was indicted last week on federal computer hacking charges after rival hackers fingered him as the creator of a Mirai variant dubbed Satori. MalwareMustDie Team: “It’s time for every teenager or young man to know that playing with malware is the fastest way to finish […]