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Security researchers warn that a new form of malware is targeting Android devices, posing as a Flash update that needs to be installed as soon as possible. SophosLabs, however, warns not only that this is fake update, but also that Read More …
In an astonishing turn of events, the man who stopped the spread of the WannaCry ransomware earlier this year has been arrested and charged with creating a banking malware known as Kronos. Marcus Hutchins, also known as MalwareTech, was held in Read More …
BM fixed a cross-site scripting vulnerability in two products last month that could have let an attacker execute malicious JavaScript code in a victim’s browser to steal sensitive information, or user credentials. The vulnerability (CVE-2017-1500) lingered in the products, Worklight Read More …
From past few years, spammers and cyber criminals were buying web extensions from their developers and then updating them without informing their users to inject bulk advertisements into every website user visits in order to generate large revenue. But now Read More …
Omani forensic specialists helped track down online crooks who stole $39 million from a government bank, the director of the Internet Technology Agency has revealed. A cyber attack on an Oman bank in 2013 sparked a global manhunt across 24 Read More …
A Senate bill introduced today would prioritize security in connected devices, requiring providers who sell to the U.S. government to implement measures that would have been an impediment to the IoT botnet-fueled attacks against DNS provider Dyn and webhost OVH. The Internet of Read More …
Microsoft has announced the Windows Bounty Program with rewards as high as $250,000 for users who can find bugs in Windows 10. While the company has had a number of previous bug bounty programs, this is the first one to Read More …
UniCredit has just announced in an official statement that its servers were breached by hackers, with details of approximately 400,000 clients said to be exposed. The bank explained that hackers managed to get inside its systems in Italy twice in Read More …
Adobe has officially set a kill date for its beleaguered Flash. The Photoshop giant said today it plans to end support for the hacker-prone multimedia browser plugin by the end of 2020. This means no more updates for Flash Player Read More …
Researcher Omer Gil has devised a way to trick a web server into caching pages and exposing personal data. The so-called web caching attack targets sites that use content delivery network (CDN) services such as Akamai and Cloudflare. These services Read More …
