Haythem Elmir

As the latest record DDoS attack hit GitHub and threatened to overwhelm its edge network, the popular Git-repository hosting service quickly switched to routing the attack traffic to their DDoS mitigation service.   In the end, GitHub ended up completely unavailable for five minutes and intermittently unavailable for four. But […]

Récemment, l’apparition d’une nouvelle attaque de phishing a fait son apparition. Elle se présentait sous la forme de faux messages de renouvellement d’abonnement à l’App Store, qui s’avéraient être des emails de phishing imitant les emails officiels d’Apple. Vous avez déjà reçu un email qui ressemble à s’y méprendre à […]

A new MBR bootlocker called DiskWriter, or UselessDisk, has been discovered that overwrites the MBR of a victim’s computer and then displays a ransom screen on reboot instead of booting into Windows. This ransom note asks for $300 in bitcoins in order to gain access to Windows again. Ransom Screen First […]

Firefox engineers are working on a method to address the recent rise in usage of in-browser miners (cryptojacking scripts) that are, in most cases, ruining the web surfing experience of most users. Plans to address this growing scourge were revealed in an email interview Bleeping Computer had with Peter Dolanjski, Product Manager […]

Precisely two months on the day since the release of its first version, the group behind the Rapid ransomware strain has released v2.0 today. This new version has not suffered any major modifications compared to its previous release, but small changes have occurred. The biggest is the addition of a […]

Vous souvenez-vous des PoS Prilex (point de vente) les logiciels malveillants? Prilex est l’une des dernières souches de morceaux de logiciels malveillants ATM qui a été utilisé dans des attaques très ciblées sur les banques brésiliennes. Le logiciel malveillant a été développé en utilisant Visual Basic 6.0 langue. Il a […]