Haythem Elmir

You have heard about ride-sharing companies like Uber and Careem becoming victims of large-scale cyber attacks but now a bike sharing company has been hacked after falling for a damaging cyber attack. The computer system responsible for controlling and managing operations of Denmark’s Copenhagen city’s bicycle sharing system “Bycyklen” was hacked over the weekend […]

A new zero-day vulnerability known as baseStriker allows miscreants to send malicious emails that bypass security systems on Office 365 accounts. Discovered last week, on May 1, 2018, by security researchers from Avanan, baseStriker is a flaw in how Office 365 servers scan incoming emails. The HTML tag at the […]

Minutes ago, Adobe published this month’s batch of security fixes, part of the company’s regular Patch Tuesday outing. For the month of May 2018, Adobe fixed five vulnerabilities — one in Flash Player, three in the Creative Cloud Desktop application (the app that starts Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and the rest […]

Sierra Wireless has patched two critical vulnerabilities for its range of wireless gateways that would leave the enterprise devices helpless to an array of remote threats, including the charms of the Reaper IoT botnet. The more critical of the two (with a 9.4 CVSSv3 Temp Score) is a privilege-escalation bug (CVE-2018-10251), […]

Recently security experts discovered two critical vulnerabilities in the Drupal CMS (CVE-2018-7600 and CVE-2018-7602), and cybercriminals promptly attempted to exploit them in the wild. The hackers started using the exploits for the above vulnerabilities to compromise drupal installs, mostly cryptocurrency mining. It has been estimated that potentially over one million Drupal websites are vulnerable […]

Security researchers at VPNMentor conducted a comprehensive assessment on of a number of GPON home routers and discovered a Critical remote code vulnerability that could be exploited to gain full control over them. The researchers have found a way to bypass the authentication to access the GPON home routers (CVE-2018-10561). The experts chained this authentication […]

The FBI’s Internal Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released the FBI 2017 Internet Crime Report, a document that outlines cybercrime trends over the past year. Here we are to analyze the annual FBI 2017 Internet Crime Report, one of the most interesting documents on the crime trends in the last 12 months. The […]