MICROSOFT PUBLIE LES DÉTAILS TECHNIQUES DE DEUX VULNÉRABILITÉS IMPORTANTES DÉCOUVERTES EN MARS

Haythem Elmir

Des chercheurs d’ESET et Microsoft ont publié les détails techniques de deux vulnérabilités de type «zero-day»  découvertes en mars 2018. Les deux failles ont été corrigées par Microsoft lors du Patch Tuesday de mai 2018. L’exploitation de la première vulnérabilité permettrait l’exécution de code arbitraire à distance dans Adobe Acrobat et […]

Hamas cyber-operatives lure Israeli soldiers to spyware hidden in tainted apps

Haythem Elmir

Israeli military intelligence accused Hamas operatives of creating tainted apps to lure soldiers into downloading spyware onto their phones. According to a report published by the Israeli military, Hamas hackers are attempting to lure Israel Defence Forces (IDF) soldiers into installing tainted apps on their devices. Israeli military already blamed Hamas […]

Gentoo Publishes Incident Report After GitHub Hack

Haythem Elmir

Maintainers of the Gentoo Linux distribution published an incident report on Wednesday after someone hijacked one of the organization’s GitHub accounts and planted malicious code. The attack started on June 28 and the hacker (or hackers) not only changed content in compromised repositories, but also locked out Gentoo developers from the targeted […]

Crooks leverage obfuscated Coinhive shortlink in a large crypto-mining operation

Haythem Elmir

Crooks leverage an alternative scheme to mine cryptocurrencies, they don’t inject the CoinHive JavaScript miner directly into compromised websites. Security researchers at MalwareLabs have uncovered a new crypto mining campaign that leverages an alternative scheme to mine cryptocurrencies, differently from other campaigns, crooks don’t inject the CoinHive JavaScript miner directly in compromised […]