Hacking

Bad news for Mac users, a new malware is threatening them of a complete system wipe and reinstall. Crooks are distributing the malware in legitimate applications, the popular Elmedia Player and download manager Folx developed by the Elmedia Player who confirmed the threat. The latest versions of both apps came with the OSX.Proton […]

Malware researchers at Check Point have uncovered a new massive IoT botnet that presented many similarities with the dreaded Mirai. The new thing bot emerged at the end of September and appears much more sophisticated, according to the experts the malware already infected more than one million organizations worldwide. The malicious code […]

وثائق مزيفة، أنظمة قرصنة معروضة أحيانا مجانا وحتى هجمات إلكترونية جاهزة… هذا بعض ما تعرضه سوق الإنترنت الإجرامي الذي كان محور تقرير نشر منتصف أكتوبر/تشرين الأول الجاري، كشف خلاله خبراء الأمن المعلوماتي أغوار المواقع السرية في شمال أفريقيا والشرق الأوسط. جواز سفر مزيف انطلاقا من 18 دولار (15 يورو)، أو […]

Cisco patched critical and high severity vulnerabilities in several products, including the Cloud Services Platform (CSP). Cisco patched critical and high severity vulnerabilities in several products, including the Cloud Services Platform (CSP), the Firepower Extensible Operating System (FXOS) and NX-OS software, and some Small Business IP phones. The most severe […]

The 2017 State of Software Security Report also shows that approximately 53.3 percent of Java applications rely on a vulnerable version of the Commons Collections components. Even today, there are just as many applications using the vulnerable version as there were in 2016. The use of components in application development […]

Microsoft’s Offensive Security Research (OSR) team disclosed a remote code execution vulnerability in the Chrome web browser. Microsoft’s Offensive Security Research (OSR) team has disclosed a remote code execution vulnerability in the Chrome web browser that was discovered by its experts. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2017-5121, was addressed by Google last month with […]

Threat actors in the wild are mass-scanning websites for directories containing SSH private keys to hack them. The SSH allows a secure way to connect to servers hosting the websites, it allows administrators to get a terminal on them and enter commands. The SSH authentication could rely on login credentials (username […]

Security researchers at Proofpoint spotted a cyber espionage campaign conducted by a group previously linked to China. The hackers have been using a recently patched .NET vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-8759, in attacks aimed at organizations in the United States. “Proofpoint researchers are tracking an espionage actor targeting organizations and high-value […]

Oracle released the October 2017 Critical Patch Update (CPU) that addresses a total of 252 security vulnerabilities that affect multiple products. Most of the vulnerabilities fixed by Oracle could be remotely exploitable without authentication. This is the last Oracle Critical Patch Update of 2017, this year the tech giant already […]

Ransomware attacks forced Toshiba to cease NAND flash memory production, costing the business the equivalent of 400,000TB in SSD storage. In fact, Toshiba downed tools for up to six weeks following the attack, reports DigiTimes. Subsequently, the production loss could trigger a NAND supply crisis. But production has now returned […]