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If you own an Apple device, you should immediately turn OFF FaceTime app for a few days. A jaw-dropping unpatched privacy bug has been uncovered in Apple’s popular video and audio call app FaceTime that could let someone hear or see you before you even pick up their call. The bug is going viral on […]
Cybersecurity experts have warned that the massive data breach that might be the biggest ever posted on the internet is just the beginning. The trove of sensitive information that was published to the internet this week, allowing anyone to download a collection of hundreds of millions of email addresses and passwords. They are likely to […]
Local reporters will be in a weak position for their work due to this measure of the Colorado police Network security and ethical hacking specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security report that at least ten of the police agencies in Colorado, U.S. have decided to implement encryption in all their radio communications, as […]
A team at a robot cybersecurity startup has released a free, open-source tool for information security professionals to help them easily ‘footprint’ and detect unprotected robots, not only connected to the Internet, but also to the industrial environments where they operate. Dubbed “Aztarna,” the framework has been developed by Alias Robotics, a Spanish cybersecurity firm […]
If the connectivity and security of your organization rely on Cisco RV320 or RV325 Dual Gigabit WAN VPN routers, then you need to immediately install the latest firmware update released by the vendor last week. Cyber attackers have actively been exploiting two newly patched high-severity router vulnerabilities in the wild after a security researcher released […]
The Japanese government has passed a new law amendment that will allow officials to hack into citizen’s Internet of Things devices to compile a list of devices that are prone to hacking. The government will attempt to break into the devices as a part of a survey that will be carried out by the National […]
Eight members of the Ohio National Guard have been called in to help an attempted cyber-attack on the city of Akron’s computer servers. Akron asked Gov. Mike DeWine on Friday to authorize an Ohio National Guard cybersecurity team to help deal with an earlier hacker attack on the city’s digital network. Ellen Lander Nischt the […]
The Australian Banking Association (ABA) is fighting back a stipulation in the proposed Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) contained in the Consumer Data Rights bill prior to the election period. This is Australia’s banking industry opposition to changes in the way banking procedures are handled, in order to still provide safety and privacy for their customers. […]
Cybersecurity researchers have warned the public that there is a convincing phishing email pretending to be coming from Telstra, the Telco giant. The sample provided falls into the category of ‘spear phishing’, which means only those that are current customers of Telstra received it. Using clever formatting tricks, the email looks the same as a […]
January 2019 does not lack any grand scale cybersecurity news, the year just got started and we’re hearing data breaches, virus infections, and stolen data issues regularly as we reported here in hackercombat.com. This time, the news about a record of at least 24 million loans and mortgages from US-based banks were affected by the […]
Security researchers have discovered two separate malware campaigns, one of which is distributing the Ursnif data-stealing trojan and the GandCrab ransomware in the wild, whereas the second one is only infecting victims with Ursnif malware. Though both malware campaigns appear to be a work of two separate cybercriminal groups, we find many similarities in them. […]
China has blocked Microsoft-owned search engine Bing, the company confirmed after receiving complaints from users throughout the country who took to social media beginning late Wednesday to express concerns. So, Bing becomes the latest service to be shut down by Chinese government behind its so-called Great Firewall of China, which blocks thousands of websites originating […]
How can cybercriminals penetrate a network or computer if there are security software in place to prevent it? Some cyber criminals have the answer, attack the very software used for securing the computer/network. That is the exact scenario that happened with ZoneAlarm antivirus, becoming the victim of a very clever vulnerability attack, as reported by […]
It is 2019, and millions of computers still either have at least one outdated application installed or run outdated operating systems, making themselves vulnerable to online threats and known security vulnerabilities/exploits. Security vendor Avast has released its PC Trends Report 2019 revealing that millions of users are making themselves vulnerable to cyber attacks by keeping […]
The rating agency will evaluate the propensity of large organizations to suffer information security incidents A data breach, depending on the magnitude of the incident, and its corresponding fines or infringements, could sentence to death an organization, commented experts in network security and ethical hacking from the International Institute of Cyber Security. Moody’s, the investment […]
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has today issued an “emergency directive” to all federal agencies ordering IT staff to audit DNS records for their respective website domains, or other agency-managed domains, within next 10 business days. The emergency security alert came in the wake of a series of recent incidents involving DNS hijacking, […]
Here we have great news for all iPhone Jailbreak lovers and concerning one for the rest of iPhone users. A Chinese cybersecurity researcher has today revealed technical details of critical vulnerabilities in Apple Safari web browser and iOS that could allow a remote attacker to jailbreak and compromise victims’ iPhoneX running iOS 12.1.2 and before […]
Beware! If you have downloaded PHP PEAR package manager from its official website in past 6 months, we are sorry to say that your server might have been compromised. Last week, the maintainers at PEAR took down the official website of the PEAR (pear-php.net) after they found that someone has replaced original PHP PEAR package […]
Due to security incidents, certifying authorities have decided to end the implementation of this protocol Nearly year after a security incident allowed malicious users to claim encryption certificates from domains that did not belong to them, the certifying authority has decided to terminate the TLS-SIN-01 protocol lifecycle, as report by network security and ethical hacking […]
Just in time… Cybersecurity experts this week fighting over Twitter in favor of not using HTTPS and suggesting software developers to only rely on signature-based package verification just because APT on Linux also does the same. Just today, a security researcher revealed details of a critical remote code execution flaw in Linux APT, exploitation of […]
Since most security tools also keep an eye on the network traffic to detect malicious IP addresses, attackers are increasingly adopting infrastructure of legitimate services in their attacks to hide their malicious activities. Cybersecurity researchers have now spotted a new malware attack campaign linked to the notorious DarkHydrus APT group that uses Google Drive as […]