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Law enforcement agencies announced the results of Operation SaboTor, a coordinated international operation targeting vendors and buyers of dark web market places. As a result of the operation, law enforcement agencies made 61 arrests and shuts down 50 Darknet accounts used for illegal activities. The joint operation between Europol, FBI, and DEA conducted between January […]
A typical antivirus products and End Point services today generally speaking comes with two ways of detecting malware: Signature-based Heuristics The signature-based antivirus has evolved since the days of the earliest MS-DOS malware, but still follows the tried-and-tested formula of using sample part of the malware code in order to identify malware infection in the […]
According to MalwareBytes’s 2019 State of Malware Report, Trojans and crypto miners are the dominate malware threats of 2019. Android phones may get infected with malware less often than Windows computers, but that doesn’t mean they’re not vulnerable. With more consumers using mobile devices for more of their online activity, knowing how to remove Trojans […]
Beware! If you are using UC Browser on your smartphones, you should consider uninstalling it immediately. Why? Because the China-made UC Browser contains a “questionable” ability that could be exploited by remote attackers to automatically download and execute code on your Android devices. Developed by Alibaba-owned UCWeb, UC Browser is one of the most popular […]
Lockergoga infection was first spotted in January 2019, the ransomware particularly targets on critical infrastructure. The Lockergoga ransomware encrypts all the files in the system and appends .locked extension and leaves a ransom note in the desktop folder. It was written in C++ with the helper libraries such as Boost and Crypto++. Now an Alert […]
Cyber Criminals abused the worlds largest computer maker ASUS computers software update tool by hijacking the company server and install the malware. ASUS live update tool contacts the ASUS update server periodically to see if any firmware or other software updates are available and the tool installed on laptops and other devices. Attackers performed a […]
According to the authors of the book ‘Learn ethical hacking’, a group of hackers has infected hundreds of thousands of Asus computers using the company’s own update tool. According to specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security, Asus, a company based in Taiwan, is one of the leading companies supplying portable computer equipment worldwide. […]
Remember the CCleaner hack? CCleaner hack was one of the largest supply chain attacks that infected more than 2.3 million users with a backdoored version of the software in September 2017. Security researchers today revealed another massive supply chain attack that compromised over 1 million computers manufactured by Taiwan-based tech giant ASUS. A group of […]
Sophisticated AZORult Malware emerges in a new form with advanced information stealing modules that capable of stealing sensitive information from infected computers. AZORult is one of the well-known malware that often sold in Russian forums for the higher price ($100) , since this malware contains a broad range of persistent functionality. It uses .bit domains […]
The Pirate Bay is one of the leading copyright-protected content download platforms. According to an expert from the best ethical hacking Institute in India and the International Institute of Cyber Security, as it is a P2P file sharing website, is not considered precisely illegal. Thanks to the wide range of free content available, millions of […]
Subscribers to the PewDiePie YouTube channel have decided to take drastic steps to make the famous content creator consolidate as the user with the most subscribers of the video platform, mention experts in ethical hacking training in India and specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security. As reported, some unknown user developed a ransomware […]
ESET researchers detail the latest tricks and techniques OceanLotus uses to deliver its backdoor while staying under the radar
Goldmouse APT group (APT-C-27) now start exploiting the WinRAR vulnerability (CVE-2018-20250[6]) to hide the njRAT backdoor and targeting users reside in the Middle East via decoy Word document to compromise and control the device. The 19-year-old vulnerability was disclosed by checkpoint security researchers last week, the vulnerability resides in the WinRAR UNACEV2.DLL library. Since the vulnerability has […]
According to a blog post from threat research department Unit 42 of cyber security company Palo Alto Networks published on March 19, an upgraded cardinal RAT malware targets Israeli fintech companies that work with forex and crypto trading. Since April 2017, Cardinal RAT has been identified when examining attacks against two Israel-based fintech companies engaged […]
Reports of an ethical hacker from the International Institute of Cyber Security mention that Norsk Hydro, one of the world’s leading aluminum-producing companies, has become the victim of a serious cybersecurity incident that has impacted a critic part of its infrastructure. Due to the incident, the company has had to perform some of its operations […]
Mirai malware is a powerful strain that compromises a number of Linux devices and uses those devices to launch a massive distributed denial of service attacks. The new malware variant targets embedded devices such as routers, network storage devices, NVRs, and IP cameras and using numerous exploits against them. According to Unit 42 researchers the […]
attackers targeting legacy protocols with stolen credential dumps to increase the speed and efficiency of the brute force attacks. Based on Proofpoint study, IMAP is the most abused protocol, IMAP is the protocol that bypasses MFA and lock-out options for failed logins. These intelligent new brute force attacks bring a new approach to the traditional […]
Hackers exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in Counter-Strike 1.6 game client to infect player’s devices by using a malicious gaming server and downloads malware into their devices. The Counter-Strike game was decades old but still have a huge fan database, according to researchers, 20,000 players using official CS 1.6 clients. The official game client contains two unpatched […]
Cyber criminals now approaching a unique way to spread Powload malware with the help of steganography to infect the targeted system. Powload campaign activity distributing since 2018 through fileless techniques and hijacking email accounts to deliver the information-stealing malware such as emotet and Ursnif. But the recent attacks employed the steganography techniques in which attackers […]
Recent In-depth analysis against Android Antivirus in Google play store reveals that, 138 Android antivirus products are completely fake and potentially harmful to Android users. AV-Comparatives research team performed the effectiveness of antimalware programs for Android to ensure the quality of malware detection against various sophisticated malware. For the analysis, they took 250 Android antivirus […]
For decades, people are using email attachments in order to send files to their intended recipients. However, using emails as a channel of transferring files across long distances is not safe, proof of this is the number of malicious file infection through ages using emails. File transfer services came into existence to meet the needs […]