With the booming value of digital currency, numerous hackers are rolling out schemes to unwittingly trap or trick more likely, the regular web users into mining for them. The most recent scheme to hoodwink people into mining cryptographic money is exploiting Facebook Messenger by means of some shrewd malware.The malware […]

Schneider Electric recently released a firmware update for its Pelco VideoXpert Enterprise product that addresses several vulnerabilities, including a high severity code execution flaw, tracked as CVE-2017-9966. The Pelco VideoXpert solution is widely used in commercial facilities worldwide. The security researcher Gjoko Krstic has found two directory traversal bugs and an […]

The holidays are upon us and that means even ransomware developers are taking some time off. This showed this week with very few ransomware infections being released and for the most part we have only seen new variants of existing infections. The biggest news is the U.S. government officially attributing the […]

Security experts spotted a new variant of the CryptoMix ransomware that uses a different extension (.FILE) and a new set of contact emails. Security experts from BleepingComputer discovered a new variant of the CryptoMix ransomware that uses a different extension (.FILE)  to append to the file names of the encrypted files and uses new contact emails. For […]

Toys are amazing, and kids love them. They are being sold like hot cakes these days thanks to the holiday season. However, quite recently, a toy in the market has been doing a lot more than just make children happy. Cayla is a toy doll that responds to questions. That’s […]

Their spoofing attempts were declared on the cybersecurity site Seclists on Dec. 18. The cybersecurity experts bypassed Windows Hello which is Microsoft’s password-free security Lock on both a Dell and Microsoft laptop operating different versions of Windows 10, which is the reason for concern for anyone utilizing this feature to log into […]

Summary Editor: Fortinet Product: FortiClient Title: Fortinet FortiClient Windows privilege escalation at logon CVE ID: CVE-2017-7344 Intrinsec ID: ISEC-V2017-01 Risk level: high Exploitable: Locally, or remotely if the logon screen is exposed (e.g. through RDP without NLA required). Requires non-default configuration on the client (« Enable VPN before logon »). Requires an invalid […]