Hacking

Necurs Botnet back after Christmas break. Still delivering Globeimposter ransomware via fake documents. After more than a 2 week break for the holidays, Necurs botnet has kicked back into gear tonight.The next in the never ending series of malware downloaders from the Necurs botnet is an email with the subject of  Document No 21941954 ( […]

The Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) has released an advisory on multiple Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) vulnerabilities. An attacker could exploit one of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. NCCIC/US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review MS-ISAC Advisory 2018-003 and the PHP Downloads  page and apply […]

Netgear LAN Switch and Nighthawk Pro Gaming Router (XR500) Offers Reliable Safeguards Against DDoS Attacks. Netgear has introduced a pair of gaming-oriented connectivity products offering a wide range of customization and prioritization options. The first device is the XR500 gaming router, which is basically an updated version of Nighthawk Pro […]

A more dramatic revelation of 2018—an outsider can secretly eavesdrop on your private end-to-end encrypted group chats on WhatsApp and Signal messaging apps. Considering protection against three types of attackers—malicious user, network attacker, and malicious server—an end-to-end encryption protocol plays a vital role in securing instant messaging services. The primary […]

Just another day with just another Android malware hosted on Google Play Store targeting unsuspecting users – But this time, the malware is written in Kotlin, a statically-typed programming language. Androidos_Bkotklind.Hrx Malware The IT security researchers at Trend Micro have discovered an Android malware Androidos_Bkotklind.Hrx on Google Play Store hiding behind a […]

Thanks to Meltdown and Spectre, January has already been an extremely busy month of patching for Microsoft. Today Microsoft tackled dozens more bugs, part of its regular Patch Tuesday release covering Microsoft Edge, Windows, Office, ASP.NET and the macOS version of Office. Sixteen of Microsoft’s updates tackled critical vulnerabilities, 38 […]