Hacking

The recent spike in the Bitcoin price and the fees associated with each transaction are making Bitcoin a less useful payment method in the cybercrime underground. We have a long debated the use of unregulated virtual currencies like Bitcoin in the criminal underground. Virtual currencies have a crucial role in facilitating illicit […]

Another day another Android malware. This time, according to a joint research conducted by security firms SfyLabs and Avast Threat Labs, there is a new Android malware strain that can pose as not a hundred or two but nearly 2,200 banks to steal passwords and carry out fraud. The malware, […]

Corporate printers and scanners related emails are quite common in large organizations and this particular aspect is now deemed as a potential opportunity for exploitation by cybercriminals. According to the findings of Barracuda Networks, there is a sudden rise in attacks involving HP, Canon and Epson printer and scanner email […]

Mozilla issued a critical security update to its popular open-source Thunderbird email client. The patch was part of a December release of five fixes that included two bugs rated high and one rated moderate and another low. Mozilla said Thunderbird, which is also serves as a news, RSS and chat […]

With the booming value of digital currency, numerous hackers are rolling out schemes to unwittingly trap or trick more likely, the regular web users into mining for them. The most recent scheme to hoodwink people into mining cryptographic money is exploiting Facebook Messenger by means of some shrewd malware.The malware […]

Schneider Electric recently released a firmware update for its Pelco VideoXpert Enterprise product that addresses several vulnerabilities, including a high severity code execution flaw, tracked as CVE-2017-9966. The Pelco VideoXpert solution is widely used in commercial facilities worldwide. The security researcher Gjoko Krstic has found two directory traversal bugs and an […]