Haythem Elmir

Legitimate and large-scale cryptocurrency mining operations often invest in dedicated hardware and electric consumption to make a profit. This doesn’t escape the attention of cybercriminals: Malicious cryptocurrency mining was so pervasive last year that it was the most detected network event in devices connected to home routers. Through our incident response-related monitoring, we observed intrusion attempts […]

Travel fare aggregation site Orbitz on Tuesday warned that a hacker may have stolen customers’ personal information and payment card details over a two-year period.   Chicago-based Orbitz, a subsidiary of Bellevue, Washington-based Expedia, says that on March 1, it discovered the suspected breach in a legacy system, noting that […]

On Friday, Frost Bank announced that it has suffered a data breach that exposed check images, crooks could use them to forge checks. Frost Bank announced on Friday that it has suffered a data breach that exposed check images. The bank is a subsidiary of Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc., its staff discovered […]

AMD has officially confirmed the validity of the RyzenFall, MasterKey, Fallout, and Chimera vulnerabilities that came to light on March 12, and said it would be releasing patches in « the coming weeks. » The company’s assessment of the four flaws is consistent with the original whitepaper published by Israeli security firm CTS […]

A Supreme Court in Russia ruled Telegram must provide the FSB with encryption keys to access users’ messaging data to avoid being blocked. Bad news for Telegram, a Supreme Court in Russia ruled the company must provide the FSB with encryption keys to access users’ messaging data. If Telegram will refuse to […]

Microsoft said on Friday that the upcoming Windows 10 major feature upgrade —dubbed the Spring Creators Update— will take around 30 minutes to install, unlike previous variants that took between one and two hours to complete. This boost in installation time is attributed to work engineers have done on the « Feature […]

With the recent report of Facebook user’s data being harvested and used for information warfare, many people are looking to delete their accounts or at least their Facebook posts in order to have a clean slate. Deleting posts, though, can be a very time consuming task as you normally would have to […]

f you are unaware, the security standard HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) can be abused as a ‘supercookie’ to surreptitiously track users of almost every modern web browser online without their knowledge even when they use « private browsing. » Apple has now added mitigations to its open-source browser infrastructure WebKit that underpins its […]

  A report released today by US cloud security and compliance solutions firm Armor shines a light on the prices practiced on Dark Web markets for a wide range of cybercrime-related services. The report, compiled by trawling several well-known Dark Web markets, shows a slight increase in pricing compared to the prices reported by […]