Hacking

WannaSpam – Many users have received a mysterious message that claims their PC was infected by WannaCry Ransomware. Crooks ask victims to pay a ransom, but it’s a scam. Many users have received a mysterious message from a group that called itself the “WannaCry-Hack-Team” that claims that WannaCry Ransomware has returned. The mail informs […]

Malware researchers from CSE Cybsec ZLab discovered a missed link between the Necurs Botnet and a variant of the Ursnif trojan that recently hit Italy. Starting from 6th June, a new version of the infamous banking trojan Ursnif hit Italian companies. This malware is well known to the cyber-security community, the Ursnif banking Trojan was […]

Upcoming additions to the WebAssembly standard may render useless some of the mitigations put up at the browser level against Meltdown and Spectre attacks, according to John Bergbom, a security researcher at Forcepoint. WebAssembly (WA or Wasm) is a new technology that shipped last year and is currently supported within all major browsers, […]

Apple acknowledged on Friday that some MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops have faulty keyboards and has offered free service to all affected customers. The problems, as acknowledged by Apple, include situations like the following: Letters or characters repeat unexpectedly Letters or characters do not appear Key(s) feel « sticky » or do […]

According to researchers at Trustwave, the source code of the Red Alert 2.0 Android Trojan is now available for rent on cybercrime underground forums at $500 per month. The experts discovered the latest variant because received a malicious apk via mail and analyzed it. “It all started with a spam message, which curiously […]

Security researchers from AlienVault have discovered a new malware strain named GZipDe that appears to be part of a targeted attack —most likely a cyber-espionage campaign. Researchers discovered this new malware earlier this week after a user from Afghanistan uploaded a boobytrapped Word document on VirusTotal. The document contained text […]

Olympic Destroyer Malware raised again through weaponized documents and currently targeting various Financial Organization with upgraded capabilities and evade the detection of flying under the radar. Olympic Destroyer is a self-replicating and self-modifying destructive network worm that spreads to reconnaissance and infiltration into target networks. Few months before Lazarus Hacking Group actively […]

Call me a cynic, but one thing I have learned from the using the Internet is to double-check, if not triple-check, everything you download. So many downloads have malware, adware, and scripts that perform malicious activities on your computer that it has to be a requirement to thoroughly check a download before […]

  We were able to observe a series of network attacks exploiting CVE-2018-7602, a security flaw in the Drupal content management framework. For now, these attacks aim to turn affected systems into Monero-mining bots. Of note are its ways of hiding behind the Tor network to elude detection and how it […]

One of Asia’s largest crypto exchanges, Bithumb announced that they have fallen victim to a hack attack, with hackers reportedly stealing more than $30 million worth digital currencies. Wallet change backfires Last Tuesday, June 19, the cryptocurrency exchange made an announcement that they would be temporarily suspending deposits to give […]