Haythem Elmir

An email with the subject of Fwd: derek ( recipient’s name)  pretending to come from Pamela <logo@mensperl.edu> ( probably random senders)  with a malicious word doc attachment  delivers some sort of malware, but I don’t know what The word doc is passworded and you need to use the password from the email […]

A recently disclosed severe 17-year-old vulnerability in Microsoft Office that lets hackers install malware on targeted computers without user interaction is now being exploited in the wild to distribute a backdoor malware. First spotted by researchers at security firm Fortinet, the malware has been dubbed Cobalt because it uses a […]

If you own a Mac computer and run the latest version of Apple’s operating system, macOS High Sierra, then you need to be extra careful with your computer. A serious, yet stupid vulnerability has been discovered in macOS High Sierra that allows untrusted users to quickly gain unfettered administrative (or […]

  In February this year, HackRead published a detailed report on Proton malware which targets macOS. At that time, the malware was being sold on a Dark Web marketplace for 40 BTC ($41,891 at the time of sale). The same malware then showed up last month infecting Mac users who download Elmedia Player. […]