Toward the end of April 2018, it was revealed that Mexico’s financial system was the victim of a cyberattack in which cybercriminals stole over 300 million pesos. Initially, the Interbank Electronic Payment System (SPEI) of the Bank of Mexico began reporting some abnormalities in the interbank transfer service. And although initially it was not […]
Année : 2018
‘Zip Slip’ arbitrary file overwrite vulnerability affects thousands of projects
Security experts from British software firm Snyk have discovered a critical vulnerability, dubbed ‘Zip Slip’ that affects thousands of projects across many industries. The flaw, that remained hidden for years, could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable systems. The Zip Slip is an arbitrary file overwrite […]
The author of the Sigrun Ransomware decrypts Russian victims’ files for free
The author of the Sigrun Ransomware is providing the decryption key to Russian victims for free, others have to pay a ransom of $2,500 worth of Bitcoin or Dash for the victims. We have reported several cases where Russian malware authors avoid infecting computers in their country, but the case we […]
MyHeritage Genealogy Site Announces Mega Breach Affecting 92 Million Accounts
Family genealogy and DNA testing site MyHeritage announced on Monday a security breach during which an attacker made off with account details for over 92 million MyHeritage users. In a statement on its website, MyHeritage said it became aware of the incident on Monday, the same day of the announcement. The incident […]
Visa payments DOWN: Millions affected by a service disruption
The Visa card payment system is suffering a widespread outage across Europe, millions of users were unable to make payments using their cards. Shoppers and travelers were unable to make payments with their cards since at around 2.30pm on Friday across Europe. At the time of writing, Visa confirmed the […]
Botnet Authors Don’t Learn Anything From Victims and Secure Databases With Root/Root
Botnet operators can be as clueless about security as their victims, according to Ankit Anubhav, Principal Researcher at NewSky Security, a cyber-security company specialized in IoT security. Anubhav told Bleeping Computer that he recently stumbled upon two databases of two distinct IoT botnets secured with the trivial username and password combination of […]
Updated: Microsoft reportedly acquires the GitHub popular code repository hosting service
Microsoft has reportedly acquired the popular code repository hosting service GitHub, but at the time of writing there is no news about how much Microsoft paid for the platform. Microsoft has reportedly acquired the popular code repository hosting service GitHub. GitHub was last valued at $2 billion in 2015, but […]
Les banques néerlandaises touchées par des attaques informatiques
Les trois principales banques des Pays-Bas, de même que, brièvement, le service néerlandais des impôts, ont été la cible de plusieurs cyberattaques ces derniers jours, bloquant l’accès aux sites web et aux services en ligne, ont-ils fait savoir lundi. Les banques ING, ABN Amro et Rabobank ont souligné que les […]
Block.one piraté : les utilisateurs d’EOS visés par du phishing
Voilà deux jours que le lancement du mainnet d’EOS s’est produit, et, en plus d’une belle envolée dans le prix, les dramas se multiplient. Après la prétendue découverte de failles critiques dans le réseau (qui ont été corrigées) c’est une affaire de phishing qui fait désormais surface, comme nous l’annonce Block.one, la firme […]
Iron cybercrime group uses a new Backdoor based on HackingTeam’s RCS surveillance sw
Security experts at security firm Intezer have recently discovered backdoor, associated with the operation of the Iron cybercrime group, that is based on the leaked source code of Remote Control System (RCS). The Remote Control System (RCS) is the surveillance software developed by the HackingTeam, it was considered a powerful malware that is able […]