Haythem Elmir

Trend Micro security experts have warned users today about a new type of Android malware that infects devices and untetheredly mines Monero in the phone’s background until the battery is exhausted or the device gives out. Called HiddenMiner, this malware has been spotted inside apps distributed via third-party stores. Researchers say […]

Facebook has announced that they are shutting down access to the « Partner Categories » targeting feature for Facebook advertisers. Partner Categories is a product that allowed Facebook advertisers to directly target the social site’s users based on data provided by third-party providers, rather than from data compiled directly by Facebook. According […]

  The Drupal CMS team has fixed a highly critical security flaw that allows hackers to take over a site just by accessing an URL. Drupal site owners should immediately —and we mean right now— update their sites to Drupal 7.58 or Drupal 8.5.1, depending on the version they’re running. […]

A recently discovered Microsoft Office document exploit builder kit dubbed ThreadKit has been used to spread a variety of malware, including RATs and banking Trojans. Security experts at Proofpoint recently discovered a Microsoft Office document exploit builder kit dubbed ThreadKit that has been used to spread a variety of malware, including banking […]

Microsoft’s Meltdown patch has opened an even bigger security hole on Windows 7, allowing any user-level application to read content from the operating system’s kernel, and even write data to kernel memory. Swedish IT security expert Ulf Frisk made the discovery earlier this month while working on PCI Leech, a device […]

If you’ve been following the infosec Twitter community for the last few days, you couldn’t ignore the constant talk about the massive scans currently taking place online, carried out by a Hajime IoT botnet looking to mass-infect unpatched MikroTik devices. All of the hoopla started on Sunday, March 25, when […]

BranchScope is a new side-channel attack technique that like Meltdown and Spectre attacks can be exploited by an attacker to obtain sensitive information from vulnerable processors. A group of researchers from the College of William & Mary, University of California Riverside, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, and Binghamton University has discovered […]