Année : 2018

The upcoming version of the Android OS —codenamed only Android P for the moment— will block applications from accessing and monitoring the operating system’s network activity. Android project developers took this decision to improve the operating system’s privacy and prevent user-installed apps from sniffing on the user’s network activity outside […]

everal days ago, FortiGuard Labs captured a malware sample that was exploiting the Microsoft Office vulnerability CVE-2017-11882 patched by Microsoft last November. The sample is an RTF document with an Equation object. By analyzing its behavior in my test environment, I realized that it spreads a new variant of Remcos RAT, version […]

According to a report by C’T magazine, researchers have found several data-leaking Spectre CPU vulnerabilities in Intel chips, which they are calling “Spectre Next Generation” or Spectre-NG. There are reportedly eight new CVE-listed vulnerabilities, which Intel has not confirmed for now. The company, however, has confirmed the reservation of Common Vulnerabilities […]

GandCrab version 3 was released earlier this week with a few noticeable changes. The most noticeable change is the addition of a desktop background. Unfortunately, at this time GandCrab 3 cannot be decrypted for free. For those who wish to discuss GandCrab or receive support, you can post in our […]

The e-commerce world is continually facing a threat to its rising fame and user appreciation; e-commerce fraud. There has been a steady rise in sales tied to e-commerce platforms across the globe with many embracing the trend. In the same manner, e-commerce fraud has been making a gradual climb from 2015 to […]

Researchers from Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam have demonstrated that it is possible to use a Rowhammer attack to remotely hack Android phones. What is a Rowhammer attack? “The Rowhammer attack targets the design of DRAM memory. On a system where the DRAM is insufficiently refreshed, targeted operations on a row […]

Microsoft’s patches for the Meltdown vulnerability have had a fatal flaw all these past months, according to Alex Ionescu, a security researcher with cyber-security firm Crowdstrike. Only patches for Windows 10 versions were affected, the researcher wrote today in a tweet. Microsoft quietly fixed the issue on Windows 10 Redstone […]

As the saying goes —if at first, you don’t succeed, then try, try again. This is the mantra that Microsoft seems to have taken up for dealing with the patching process meant to mitigate the effects of the Spectre v2 (CVE-2017-5715) vulnerability. The OS maker released yesterday two new Windows […]