Hacking

New samples of Hacking Team’s Remote Control System (RCS) flagship spyware have recently emerged, slightly different from previously observed variations, ESET warns. Hacking Team, an Italian spyware vendor founded in 2003, is well known for selling surveillance tools to governments worldwide. In 2015, the firm was hacked, which led to […]

CANCUN, Mexico – Researchers have uncovered a new cyber-espionage threat, dubbed Slingshot, that targets routers and uses them as a springboard to attack computers within a network. Kaspersky Lab, which released details of its discovery during its Security Analyst Summit on Friday, said that the campaign has successfully targeted at […]

In Q4 2017 we found that the Necurs and Gamut botnets comprised 97% of spam botnet traffic. (See the McAfee Labs Threats Report, March 2018.) Necurs (at 60%) is currently the world’s largest spam botnet. The infected computers operate in a peer-to-peer model, with limited communication between the nodes and the control […]

Les experts en sécurité constatent une bascule dans les cibles de prédilection des cybercriminels qui préfèrent s’en prendre aux smartphones plutôt qu’aux ordinateurs. On vous explique pourquoi. Votre smartphone vous connaît sans doute mieux que vous-même. Il sait en permanence où vous vous trouvez, il connaît toutes les personnes auxquelles […]

According to Citizen Lab, some governments are using Sandvine network gear installed at internet service providers to deliver spyware and cryptocurrency miners. Researchers at human rights research group Citizen Lab have discovered that netizens in Turkey, Egypt and Syria who attempted to download legitimate Windows applications from official vendor websites (i.e. Avast […]

Windows Server, Apache Solr, and Redis servers have been targeted this week by cyber-criminals looking to take over unpatched machines and install malware that mines cryptocurrency (known as a coinminer). Two separate campaigns have been spotted, both very active this week. One by the Imperva crew, targeting Redis and Windows […]