Hacking

The financially-motivated FIN7 hacking group recently switched to a new delivery technique and has been employing a different malware obfuscation method, ICEBRG security researchers reveal. Highly active since the beginning of 2017, FIN7 (also known as Anunak, or Carbanak) started distributing malware via LNK files embedded in Word documents using […]

State-sponsored hackers from North Korea are launching almost daily attacks on Irish companies and critical infrastructure North Korean state-sponsored hackers are launching almost daily attacks on Irish companies and critical infrastructure, they are also suspected to be responsible for the €4.3m cyber heist on Meath County Council in October 2016. […]

Apple released a patch for macOS High Sierra 10.13 that address also a flaw in Apple file system that exposes encrypted drive’s password in the hint box. Apple yesterday released a security patch for macOS High Sierra 10.13 to fix vulnerabilities in the Apple file system (APFS) volumes and Keychain software. The vulnerability in […]

The report may well be valid, but, for now, there’s no way to individually confirm it. The statement is based on unnamed personalities the publication says had an understanding of the matter, and it provides no data to back its claim. What’s more, the lack of particular leaves opens the […]

Several security vulnerabilities have been patched in recent weeks in Apache Tomcat, including the CVE-2017-12617 Code Execution vulnerability. Several security vulnerabilities have been patched in recent weeks in Apache Tomcat. The list of fixed flaws recently addressed also included code execution vulnerabilities. Apache Tomcat is the most widely used web application server, […]

The largest known hack of user data in the history just got tripled in size. Yahoo, the internet company that’s acquired by Verizon this year, now believes the total number of accounts compromised in the August 2013 data breach, which was disclosed in December last year, was not 1 billion—it’s 3 Billion. Yes, […]

Regardless of what you may think of Google as a company, it is difficult to criticize their prolific and in-depth security research. The latest example is their disclosure of seven distinct issues in the Dnsmasq software package. From the authors’ website, “Dnsmasq provides network infrastructure for small networks: DNS, DHCP, router advertisement and network […]

Malware continues to be one of the most dangerous threats for organizations worldwide, and data recently disclosed by security firms. According to Kaspersky Lab, Saudi Arabia is under a constant malware-based attack, the experts reported that sixty percent of institutions in the country were hit by malicious code attacks and malware […]

According to local media, several banks in the country have faced a massive DDoS(Distributed Denial of Service) attacks over the past few days. The attack traffic came from several countries at the same time.  As a result, bank websites were unavailable for a certain time. One of the affected bank […]

Companies in the manufacturing, industrial and infrastructure sectors have been warned to tighten up their security as industrial control systems increasingly come under sophisticated attacks. The warning comes from security specialist Kaspersky, which has warned that computers used in industry have become prime targets for hackers. Kaspersky says that one […]