Hacking

With both Bitcoin and Ethereum price hitting all-time highs in the past seven days, cyber-criminals have stepped up efforts to search and steal funds stored in these two cryptocurrencies. These mass Internet scanning campaigns have been recently picked up by various honeypots installed by security researchers across the Internet. Scans […]

Earlier this month a cybersecurity researcher shared details of a security loophole with The Hacker News that affects all versions of Microsoft Office, allowing malicious actors to create and spread macro-based self-replicating malware. Macro-based self-replicating malware, which basically allows a macro to write more macros, is not new among hackers, […]

Individuals who reuse login credentials across multiple sites are more susceptible to account checking attacks, which occur when threat actors use credentials stolen from past database breaches or compromises to gain unauthorized access to other accounts belonging to the same victims. However, the process of mining compromised data for correct […]

The most prolific ransomware strain these days is Troldesh, aka Crysis, which claims hundreds of sub-variants, according to analysis from Bitdefender. In its latest report, based on trends in its global network of more than 500 million sensors and honeypots, Bitdefender found that during 2017 alone, the number of new […]

Car hacking is a national security issue, warns expert Modern cars are an “open door” to hackers from hostile states or terrorists wanting to use them as a weapon, a leading cybersecurity expert has warned. Car hacking should be considered a national security issue in the current geopolitical climate, as […]

The term “location services” oftentimes points to exact GPS data for app usage, such as Google Maps discovering your best commute route, or Uber figuring out precisely where you’re standing to let operators know your pickup point. News report details a training in which Google was able to track user locations by […]