Oracle pushed out an emergency update for vulnerabilities affecting several of its products that rely on its proprietary Jolt protocol. The bugs were discovered by researchers at ERPScan who named the series of five vulnerabilities JoltandBleed. The vulnerabilities are severe, with two of the bugs scoring 9.9 and 10 on […]
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Banking Trojan Gains Ability to Steal Facebook, Twitter and Gmail Accounts
Security researchers have discovered a new, sophisticated form of malware based on the notorious Zeus banking Trojan that steals more than just bank account details. Dubbed Terdot, the banking Trojan has been around since mid-2016 and was initially designed to operate as a proxy to conduct man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks, steal […]
UK spymasters suspect Russia is using Kaspersky to spy on people
United States’s intelligence agency, the National Security Agency, is considered as one of the world’s largest and secretive intelligence agency, has been reportedly hacked, robbed, mocked, and breached by an anonymous hacker. A cybersecurity expert who worked with on the NSA’s hacking group, Jake Williams had written on his company […]
New Vulnerability Exploits Antivirus Programs to Install Malware
New Vulnerability Exploits Antivirus Programs to Install Malware It is common notion that antivirus software keeps our computers safe from all types of bugs and malware. However, it seems that cybercriminals are hell-bent on changing this belief by using these programs for fulfilling their malicious objectives. As per the findings […]
OnePlus Left A Backdoor That Allows Root Access Without Unlocking Bootloader
OnePlus Left A Backdoor That Allows Root Access Without Unlocking Bootloader Another terrible news for OnePlus users. Just over a month after OnePlus was caught collecting personally identifiable information on its users, the Chinese smartphone company has been found leaving a backdoor on almost all OnePlus handsets. A Twitter user, […]
New Banking Trojan IcedID Discovered by IBM X-Force Research
New Banking Trojan IcedID Discovered by IBM X-Force Research IBM X-Force research follows developments in the financial cybercrime arena to map the events and trends that shape the threat landscape for organizations and consumers alike. After a year that has been very active in terms of banking malware, point-of-sale (POS) […]
Ethereum Parity Wallet freeze that locked up $280 million in Ether was a hack, claims Cappasity
According to the startup Cappasity the Ethereum Parity Wallet freeze that locked up $280 million in Ether was deliberately triggered by someone. A few days ago the firm Parity Technologies made the headlines because someone has accidentally triggered a vulnerability in the popular Parity Wallet that locked up $280 million in […]
Equifax earnings release: Security breach related expenses cost $87.5 Million in Q3
Equifax announced during the third quarter of 2017, it incurred $87.5 million in expenses related to the cyber attack that was reported in September. It is very difficult to estimate the overall losses caused by a cyber attack because victims incur in direct and indirect costs that aren’t easy to calculate. […]
DHS – Tests demonstrate Boeing 757 airplanes vulnerable to hacking
Researchers and private industry experts, along with DHS officials, remotely hacked a Boeing 757 airplane that was parked at the airport in Atlantic City. A group of researchers and private industry experts, along with DHS officials, remotely hacked a Boeing 757 airplane owned by the DHS that was parked at […]
Face ID just got Hacked with the help of a mask by a security firm
Face ID just got Hacked with the help of a mask by a security firm Apple uses the Tenth Anniversary iPhone X Phone to replace Touch ID. Because the award handset features an edge-to-edge protection and has very slim bezels, Apple had to get up with a way to reinstate the fingerprint scanner that powers Touch ID. […]