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The Guardian, a well known UK-based newspaper, is being heavily criticized by security researchers for publishing an unverified story on WhatsApp vulnerability. Reportedly, the news service published a report citing that it was possible to intercept encrypted messages on WhatsApp because the application contained a Backdoor. The Guardian’s report claiming a security flaw may be […]
A popular horse racing website (Racingpulse.in) that operates out of Bangalore, India was reportedly hacked on Tuesday. The hackers posted a statement on the home page informing that the entire data on the website has been encrypted. As is the norm, they also informed about what they expected as ransom. The ransom note suggested that they […]
IT security researchers have discovered a new malicious code which affects Mac and Linux systems. It has been dubbed by Apple Inc., as Fruitfly while Malwarebytes named it as Quimitchin, a name inspired by Aztec spies. This newly identified malware spy on biomedical research centers. It is being speculated that the malicious code has remained […]
The first Mac malware of 2017 was brought to my attention by an IT admin, who spotted some strange outgoing network traffic from a particular Mac. This led to the discovery of a piece of malware unlike anything I’ve seen before, which appears to have actually been in existence, undetected, for some time, and which seems to […]
A lot of DDoS movement on the Internet begins from supposed ‘booter/stresser’ administrations, which are DDoS-for-contract administrations which let even unsophisticated clients to dispatch high-affect assaults. What’s more, as we will see, the perpetual rivalry for benefits in the outrightly illicit DDoS-for-contract industry can lead those included down some extremely abnormal ways, to be sure. […]
Security researcher MalwareHunterTeam discovered today a new malware family that can infect computers and allow crooks to take control of these PCs using commands sent via an IRC channel. Named GhostAdmin, this threat is part of the “botnet malware” category. According to current information, the malware is already distributed and deployed in live attacks, being […]
FireEye have recognized another variation of the Ploutus ATM malware, utilized for as far back as couple of years to make ATMs retch out money on charge. Ploutus enabled criminals to empty ATMs using either an external keyboard attached to the machine or via SMS message, a technique that had never been seen before. There […]
Instagram undoubtedly is a very popular social networking platform, which is the main reason why it attracts the attention of cyber-criminals, hackers and scammers so frequently. According to latest findings from the mobile malware research team at Intel Security, Google Play store has become a haven for Instagram password stealers. These malicious cybercriminals are distributing […]
The Internet Archive has launched on Friday a Chrome extension that will detect “Page not found” and other web errors and replace them with a copy from its Wayback Machine, if available. The extension is already available on the Chrome Web Store. According to the Internet archive staff, the Chrome extension can detect server error […]
Security researchers have discovered a new ransomware campaign that not only gives back the encrypted files after payment of ransom but also offers immunity from future ransomware attacks to the victim. It is being distributed through spam emails that appear as invoices and contain a ZIP file in which an HTML Application or HTA file […]
A malware developer from Great Falls, Virginia created a keylogger having the capability of recording every single keystroke on a computer and sold it to over 3,000 people. As a result, around 16,000 systems were infected. The US Department of Justice released a press release revealing that the 21-year old hacker Zachary Shames was arrested […]
Zachary Shames pleaded guilty today to charges of developing and selling malware that was later used to infect thousands of victims. Before he was arrested this summer, the 21-year-old Shames worked as a technical intern at Northrop Grumman, a defense and security government contractor. Zachary Shames LinkedIn profile Unknown to his employer is that while […]
You are in this video is a new malware scam which tricks users into infecting their devices allowing hackers to steal their credentials and much more. Until now you must have heard about so many scams involving Facebook Messenger that whenever you see a suspicious chat message sent from other friends on your Facebook profile, […]
Short Bytes: A student hacker from Virginia, named Zachary Shames, has pleaded guilty to the charges to writing a keylogger and selling it. His keylogger helped different buyers infect about 16,000 computers. The 21-year-old wrote the spyware in his school and continued to improve it in his college. Shames will be sentenced on June 16 with a […]
Facebook users in France are subject to a wave of malicious ads, which if clicked, will redirect them to a website hosting a tech support scam. The campaign was first reported on the Malekal forum by French users. At the moment, the malvertising attack seems to be aimed at French-speaking users only, with all the […]
Researchers claim that the malware is currently priced at $4,000 and comes with ‘bot killer’ features. Security researchers have uncovered a new malware strain, dubbed Nuke, put up for sale on the dark web by an alleged Russian cybercriminal going by the pseudonym Gosya. Researchers noted that the malware comes with several features, including “bot […]
Cybercriminals are now using new techniques to infect users with ransomware in order to make easy money. That is exactly what happened with Los Angeles Valley College (LAVC) who recently had their computer systems infected. In return, the college was forced to pay the whopping sum of $28,000 (£22,500, €25,936) in Bitcoin. It all started on 30th December 2016 when the […]
Mystery malware begins targeting a key disk-wiping defense. There’s a new variant of the Shamoon disk-wiping malware that was originally unleashed on Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company in 2012, and it has a newly added ability to destroy virtual desktops, researchers said. The new strain is at least the second Shamoon variant to be discovered […]
Short Bytes: The security researchers at Palo Alto Networks have detected two versions of a malware similar to Shamoon which attacked 35,000 Saudi Aramco machines in 2011. The latest version, known as Second Shamoon 2, was spotted in November 2016. It is known to cause cyber espionage and damage virtual machines working on the target […]
ClearSky Security discovered a new campaign conducted by the Iranian OilRig APT leveraging digitally signed malware and fake University of Oxford domains. The OilRig hacker group is an Iran-linked APT that has been around since at least 2015. Researchers at Palo Alto Networks have been monitoring the group for some time and have reported attacks launched against government agencies, financial institutions and technology companies in Saudi Arabia, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Kuwait and Qatar, the United States, […]
Super Mario Run is anticipated to dispatch in the Google Play Store in the coming weeks, after beforehand going live on iOS on December 15, and cybercriminals are attempting to profit by the energy produced by Nintendo’s new title utilizing another influx of malware. introducing a honest to goodness amusement, the supposed Super Mario Run […]