Haythem Elmir

A change meant to improve Google Chrome performance will also indirectly impact cryptojacking scripts (in-browser cryptocurrency miners) and will severely reduce their efficiency. According to a design document seen by Bleeping Computer, Google engineers plan to limit the CPU power some types of JS scripts running in the browser’s background […]

The Autosploit hacking tool was developed aiming to automate the compromising of remote hosts both by collecting automatically targets as well as by using Shodan.io API. Users can define its platform search queries like Apache, IIS and so forth to gather targets to be attacked. After gathering the targets, the tool […]

It recently came to light that cybercriminals have been deceiving ‘Reddit’ users into voluntarily handing over their usernames and passwords. Why would anyone do that of their own free will you might ask? It all comes down to a simple typo – reddit.co instead of reddit.com When users accidentally type […]

Netherlands police’s high-tech crime unit has arrested an 18-year-old man on suspicion of launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on the Dutch tax authority, tech site Tweakers, and internet service provider Tweak. The police said the teenager, known only as ‘Jelle S’, is also suspected of attacking the online bank Bunq. […]

Ledger hardware wallet that is currently operating in the cryptocurrency market is vulnerable to cyber attacks. The vulnerability was identified by unknown security researchers in every single hardware wallet that allows cybercriminals to show fraudulent addresses to Ledger users/customers. When funds are requested to these addresses, the cryptocurrency is transferred to […]

Joomla! is one of the biggest players in the market of content management systems. Its easy installation, usage, and extensibility make it the second most used CMS on the web next to WordPress1. Last year, our PHP static code analysis solution unveiled a rare LDAP injection vulnerability within the 500,000 […]

Another day, another cryptocurrency miner targeting users – This time, MacUpdate site has been hacked to drop cryptocurrency miner on Mac devices. MacUpdate, a well-known software download, and aggregator platform, has become a victim of a hack attack and the service is now distributing cryptocurrency miners to Mac users, revealed […]