According to a study led by an Indian-origin scientist Shivam Bhasin, NTU Senior Research, data from your smartphone sensors can reveal PINs and passwords to hackers and allow them to unlock your mobile devices. Researchers from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore used sensors in a smart phone to model […]

Michael Gillespie discovered a new variant of the CryptoMix ransomware that appends the .tastylock extension to encrypted files and changes the contact emails used by the ransomware. In this article I will provide a brief summary of any changes that have occurred in this new variant.  As we are always looking for weaknesses, if […]

Ancestry.com said it closed portions of its community-driven genealogy site RootsWeb as it investigated a leaky server that exposed 300,000 passwords, email addresses and usernames to the public internet. In a statement issued over the weekend, Chief Information Security Officer of Ancestry.com Tony Blackham said a file containing the user data […]

The popular cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta was hacked, attackers conducted a DNS attack that allowed to steal at least 308 ETH ($266,789) as well as a large number of tokens. The spike in cryptocurrency values is attracting cybercriminals, the last victim is the popular cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta that announced a potential attack […]

For the second year in a row, “123456” was the top password found in data dumps in 2017 despite the numerous warning of using strong passwords. For the second year in a row, “123456” was the top password among the millions of cleartext passwords exposed online due to the numerous […]

The recent spike in the Bitcoin price and the fees associated with each transaction are making Bitcoin a less useful payment method in the cybercrime underground. We have a long debated the use of unregulated virtual currencies like Bitcoin in the criminal underground. Virtual currencies have a crucial role in facilitating illicit […]