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Researchers discovered 2 new hacking tools called BOOSTWRITE and RDFSNIFFER that were added in FIN7 groups malware arsenal with sophisticated capabilities and techniques. FireEye Mandiant investigators uncovered that these new hacking tools were added for hijacking the DLL load order of the legitimate Aloha utility and load the malware. The Tool named BOOSTWRITE is a […]
Fxsmsp Threat Group, “a credible hacking collective” is offering to sell source code of major anti-virus software for a whopping $300,000. The servers of three high-profile anti-virus firms have allegedly been compromised by a group of elite Russian hackers. The hacker group, known as Fxsmsp, claims to have stolen the companies’ software source code after […]
Open the Internet and your screen will be flooded with hacking news and exploits carried out through the use of sophisticated techniques. It is not uncommon to land on news reports of millions of compromised Internet devices. These stories emerge not merely because of the hacker’s expertise, although this plays a large part. Just as crucial is the lack […]
Quite recently, the founder of Mcafee company, John Mcafee, was in news when his Twitter was hacked by an unknown hacker. This hacker used John’s social media reach and used it to promote some lesser known cryptocurrencies. Before his account got hacked, John Mcafee, who is also considered to be a crypto expert, used to […]
A new Antivirus design flaw has discovered and named as AVGater for the Windows Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability which is presented in many antiviruses that can be abused and bypassed using restore from quarantine Method. Quarantine is a special storage suspicious (probably infected) objects used by Antivirus engine. A function of antivirus software that isolates infected […]
The tool itself is impressive enough, serving as the backbone of the CIA’s malware processes, but there’s more. What’s interesting about the first leak in the Vault 8 line is that it seems to show the agency portraying Kaspersky, by making use of a fake certificate for the anti-virus company. WikiLeaks describes the purpose and […]
Israel told the NSA, where frightened officials quickly began a hunt for the gap, according to users familiar with the subject, who said an inquiry by the agency revealed that the tools were in the territory of the Russian government. Israeli spies had discovered the hacking stuff on the network of Kaspersky Lab, the global […]
Short Bytes: The data belonging to various top companies using Carbon Black’s Cb Response tool might be at risk, according to DirectDefense. The security firm was able to discover the data like cloud keys, usernames, customers data, etc. while it was being sent to third-party anti-virus multiscanner. Carbon Black later said that data is only transferred […]
Veil-Framework is defined in Ryan Gandrud’s blog as, For ethical hackers, evading AV software is a significant detail of success. If an anti-virus program is alerted of an attack, there is a higher likelihood of presenting further weaknesses. Even more, the execution itself would be pointless due to the exploit’s detectability. git clone https://github.com/Veil-Framework/Veil-Evasion.git cd […]
Short Bytes: Here is a list of 25 best android Antivirus that were put on test by AVTest, a company specialized in cyber-security benchmarking. 25 Android security apps were put on the test for six months and here are the results for the best Android antivirus. AVTest put 25 security apps on test for six […]
Popular anti-virus firm and computer security agency BitDefender has become the victim of a highly embarrassing data hack. Apparently, hackers took away a “very limited” number of usernames and passwords of the firm’s customers and are now threatening to make the data public if the required ransom is not paid. However, BitDefender refused to give […]
“The Internet is full of pioneers and cowboys. It’s also got its fair share of pirates and trolls.” Piracy is the biggest challenge faced by the software companies and they are coming up with new ways to tackle the issue. One of the biggest examples is Windows by Microsoft who is basically giving away free […]
Mobile phones are now also being utilized for the purpose of managing some important personal assets such as money. According to a recent report that has been published by the Federal Reserve of US, around 48 percent of the smartphone users in the last 12 months have used the mobile banking platform for carrying out […]