The United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand have joined the United Kingdom in officially blaming Russia for the destructive NotPetya attack launched last summer. Moscow has denied the accusations. In a statement released on Thursday, the White House attributed the June 2017 attack to the Russian military and described it as […]
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A Single-Character Message Can Crash Any Apple iPhone, iPad Or Mac
Only a single character can crash your iPhone and block access to the Messaging app in iOS as well as popular apps like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Outlook for iOS, and Gmail. First spotted by Italian Blog Mobile World, a potentially new severe bug affects not only iPhones but also a wide range […]
Still relying solely on CVE and NVD for vulnerability tracking? Bad idea
2017 broke the previous all-time record for the highest number of reported vulnerabilities. The 20,832 vulnerabilities cataloged during 2017 by Risk Based Security (VulnDB) eclipsed the total covered by MITRE’s Common Vulnerability Enumeration (CVE) and the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) by more than 7,900. “Incredibly, we see too many companies […]
Méfiez-vous! Ransomware Saturn. Comment se débarrasser complètement de Saturn ?
Saturn apporte beaucoup d’avantages aux pirates, s’il arrive à l’ordinateur. Il doesn’;t ont une structure complexe, Cependant, Il est très efficace. Ainsi, les utilisateurs souvent rencontré avec elle en ligne. La seule issue est la réinstallation du système actuel, ou vous avez gagné ‘;t éliminer cette ransomware. Malheureusement, les utilisateurs devront dire adieu […]
Facebook wants you to install a VPN app accused of spying on users
Facebook has begun releasing a controversial app for its Android and iPhone (iOS) users which is a free VPN program from Onavo, an Israeli company bought by Facebook in October 2013, which promises to protect users’ browsing data. However, the program is accused of monitoring user traffic and tracking the major competitors of […]
Hackers use Google Ads to steal $50 million of Bitcoin
In December last year, HackRead.com exclusively exposed a scam in which hackers bought advertisement slots on Google Search Engine using Google’s very own Adwords (Google Ads) service. The search results would display Google Chrome browser download advertisement even before the official Chrome download store but in that case, the link on the ad […]
ATM Skimmer Kingpin Escapes UK Police
In what many consider to be a monumental failure on the part of UK police, the ringleader of a notorious ATM skimming gang has escaped prosecutors and is believed to be hiding abroad, after being let out on bail. Despite absconding UK authorities in the middle of legal procedures, the […]
Android Security Bulletin – Google fixed several Critical Code Execution vulnerabilities
Android Security Bulletin – Google fixed several Critical Code Execution vulnerabilities Android Security Bulletin for February 2018 – Google has fixed tens of vulnerabilities for Android OS, including several critical remote code execution (RCE) flaws. The Android Security Bulletin for February 2018 addresses 26 vulnerabilities in the mobile operating system, […]
Android ransomware in 2017: Innovative infiltration and rougher extortion
2017 was without a doubt the year of ransomware. Users and businesses worldwide had to cope with the fallout of massive campaigns such as Petya or WannaCryptor, and put up with damages that surpassed the multibillion mark. However, it wasn’t just PC ransomware that made headlines, as authors of Android malware […]
Hackers Exploiting ‘Bitmessage’ Zero-Day to Steal Bitcoin Wallet Keys
Bitmessage developers have warned of a critical ‘remotely executable’ zero-day vulnerability in the PyBitmessage application that was being exploited in the wild. Bitmessage is a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) communications protocol used to send encrypted messages to users. Since it is decentralized and trustless communications, one need-not inherently trust any entities like root certificate […]