Researchers from Checkpoint found a new and previously unknown ransomware variant dubbed “Rorschach” with highly sophisticated features that target U.S. companies. Rorschach ransomware carries technically unique and customized features and one of the fastest ransomware observed by the speed of encryption that was never found in ransomware history. Interestingly, Threat actors behind the ransomware implemented […]
Jason Sallman is a cryptocurrency investment advisor who enjoys considerable popularity on social media, primarily Instagram, where he has nearly 40,000 followers. Unfortunately, profiles like Sallman’s never go unnoticed by threat actors, who have found a new method of fraud using fake profiles of businessmen, celebrities and other public figures. According to a CNBC report, […]
Bad news for digital art tokens owners. This weekend, Australian user Geoffrey Huntley put online a website in which he assures that more than 20TB are stored and ready for download in torrents with all the value of non-fungible tokens (NFT) of blockchain. The appearance of The NFT Bay, named in reference to the popular […]
Recently, it has been reported that Yandex was experiencing a massive DDoS attack from the Mēris botnet. this attack was denominated as the most comprehensive in the history of a DDoS attack, however, the key details are not yet cleared. However, Yandex and Qrator Labs issued a large provision on Habré, on which they have […]
Data breaches have become routine, although each new reported incident seems to more seriously affect a larger number of users. Data protection specialists say that, most of the time, the compromised data ends up in the hands of marketing companies and even threat actors in dark web. There are currently dozens of companies dedicated to […]
Information security experts anticipate that the balance in cybersecurity by the end of 2019 will be disastrous. According to figures collected up to this time of year, incidents of reported data breaches increased by about 30% compared to the previous year. In addition, this year it reached an all-time high of nearly 8 billion exposed […]
Ecuador officials have arrested the general manager of IT consulting firm Novaestrat after the personal details of almost the entire population of the Republic of Ecuador left exposed online in what seems to be the most significant data breach in the country’s history. Personal records of more than 20 million adults and children, both dead […]
Antivirus solutions are one of the basic protection tools for computer users; however, this software is not safe from flaws that alter the security and privacy environment. Recently, IT system audit specialists reported a new vulnerability in the antivirus software of the Russian firm Kaspersky Lab that leaked some details about preferences and customs in […]
Hackers compromised the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) servers where they gained access to 7.5 terabytes of data from a major FSB contractor named “Sytech”. Intruders leaked the dozens of data that related to non-public Internet projects such as how Russia trying to de-anonymization of users of the Tor browser, collecting information about users of social networks, […]
Back in May 2019, Google promised that it would let you auto-delete the web activity and location history it collects through your Google account. The company is keeping its word by releasing new tools to set a time-limit for the expiration of your personal data. Now users can delete their location history, both on Android […]
What is Botnets? Botnets are artificial networks created by malware, which can be controlled by the virus author remotely. Here in Hackercombat.com, we have featured stories of companies which had their devices becoming a member of botnets without them knowing. Being a member of a botnet means the infected devices are kept running as usual, […]
A few days ago, information security specialists reported a massive data breach in American Medical Collections Agency (AMCA) that affected nearly 20 million patients in U.S. clinical companies; according to experts, records of credit cards and stolen clinical details may be sold for negligible amounts (less than $50 USD). What is the reason for the […]
The UWP is dead. That’s what the internet and various reports have started to say about the platform. In addition to many reasons, what led to this conclusion is one big announcement made by Microsoft that its app store will now offer support for Win32 games. Win32 is the same old legacy platform Redmond wanted […]
Google, by using the location data in devices, helps identify suspects of crimes in many instances of criminal investigation. Google keeps tracking your device constantly, even when you disable the Google Location History feature. Using many apps- Google Maps, weather update app etc- Google keeps tracking all devices, collecting the precise latitudes and longitudes as […]
A New York Times report has revealed that federal agencies and cops use Google’s location history data trove to keep an eye on suspects and track their location. Google has a huge database called Sensorvault that contains location records of hundreds of millions of devices – both Android as well as iOS. The fact that […]
A vulnerability exists with the web version of Google photos allows malicious websites to extract the photos metadata information. Google photos will tag your photos automatically based on the metadata information such as geographic coordinates, date, etc. The Photo metadata allows information to be traveled along with the image file that can be read by […]
Facebook, which has suffered the biggest ever outage in its history, is struggling to deal with it. The partial outage that affected some users of Facebook and other platforms owned by Facebook, including Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram, seems to be abating. CNN.com reports that Facebook had to use the services of its rival Twitter […]
Back at CES 2019, Google introduced a couple of features for its Maps app, and it appears we are most likely to see new ones pretty soon, as part of its upcoming update, in version 10.10. According to APK files acquired by 9To5Google, Google Maps is likely to start deleting the location automatically for users. […]
To exploit the vulnerability, attackers need physical access to the computer, as well as installing a malicious application Network security and ethical hacking specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security report the emergence of a new vulnerability in a developer API that allows a malicious app installed on the Mojave MacOS to access a […]
Security Researcher discovered a vulnerability in macOS Mojave let malware apps bypass the privacy protection and read the safari browser web history. macOS Mojave has strictly restrict some of the folder by default and it provide special access for very few apps. But the newly uncovered flaw bypass the Mojave privacy protection and allow the […]
A new security vulnerability has been discovered in the latest version of Apple’s macOS Mojave that could allow a malicious application to access data stored in restricted folders which are otherwise not accessible to every app. Discovered by application developer Jeff Johnson on February 8, the vulnerability is unpatched at the time of writing and […]