Hacking

Un membre de Twitter promet d’offrir un Bitcoin à cinq personnes qui retweeteront un de ses posts. Quand certains ont fait fortune, il leur reste un rêve ultime à réaliser : faire péter leur compteur de followers sur les réseaux sociaux. Et plus particulièrement sur Twitter, sorte de Graal ou […]

A team of security researchers has discovered a critical implementation flaw in major mobile banking applications that left banking credentials of millions of users vulnerable to hackers. The vulnerability was discovered by researchers of the Security and Privacy Group at the University of Birmingham, who tested hundreds of different banking […]

A new ransomware called HC7 is infecting victims by hacking into Windows computers that are running publicly accessible Remote Desktop services. Once the developers gain access to the hacked computer, the HC7 ransomware is then installed on all accessible computers on the network. Originally released as HC6, victims began posting about it […]

WordPress is one of the most used platforms in the world with more than 75 million websites using its content management system (CMS), and that is good enough reason for hackers to target WordPress-based websites. Old Malware New Capabilities Recently, researchers at website security platform Sucuri discovered that 5,500 WordPress websites are infected […]

A team of security researchers has discovered a new malware evasion technique that could help malware authors defeat most of the modern antivirus solutions and forensic tools. Dubbed Process Doppelgänging, the new fileless code injection technique takes advantage of a built-in Windows function and an undocumented implementation of Windows process […]

Last year, Uber received an email from an anonymous person demanding money in exchange for the stolen user database. It turns out that a 20-year-old Florida man, with the help of another, breached Uber’s system last year and was paid a huge amount by the company to destroy the data […]

The extraordinary volatility of the price of bitcoin has spurred speculators to employ a wide variety of tricks to make it swing between extremes, so that they can take advantage of it.   The unregulated nature of the cryptocurrency ecosystem makes it possible for things like statements by widely esteemed […]