Hackers can steal macOS keychain passwords using unsigned applications, it works on the latest version of macOS, High Sierra 10.13, and previous releases. The cyber security expert Patrick Wardle, director of research at Synack, revealed that unsigned applications can steal macOS Keychain passwords from the latest version of macOS High Sierra and previous versions of macOS. The researchers tested the […]
Evidence that Russian hackers attempted to interfere with the 2016 US Election continues to pile up, DHS notified states whose systems were hit by APTs. Evidence that Russia attempted to interfere with the 2016 US Election continues to pile up. Rumours started almost as soon as the 2016 US Election was completed, individuals with the White House have […]
Oracle fixed several issues in the Apache Struts 2 framework including the flaw CVE-2017-9805 that has been exploited in the wild for the past few weeks. Oracle has released patches for vulnerabilities affecting many of its products, the IT giant has fixed several issues in the Apache Struts 2 framework, including the flaw CVE-2017-9805 that has been exploited […]
The accountancy firm Deloitte announced it is has been targeted by a sophisticated hack that compromised its global email server. Today the accountancy firm giant Deloitte revealed that is has been targeted by a sophisticated hack that compromised the confidential emails and plans of some of its blue-chip clients. According to The Guardian that first reported the incident, hackers may have accessed company […]
The Adobe product security incident response team (PSIRT) accidentally published a private PGP key on its blog, once discovered the issue it quickly revoked it. On Friday, the Adobe PSIRT updated its Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) key and published the new public key on the blog post. The new key should have been valid until September […]
United Cyber Caliphate members stopped trying to develop their own hacking and communication tools and used to search them into the criminal underground. According to Kyle Wilhoit, a senior security researcher at DomainTools, who made a speech at the DerbyCon hacking conference in US, ISIS members stopped trying to develop their own hacking and communication […]
The RedBoot ransomware encrypts files on the infected computer, replaces the Master Boot Record and then modifies the partition table. Malware Blocker researcher discovered a new bootlocker ransomware, dubbed RedBoot, that encrypts files on the infected computer, replaces the Master Boot Record (MBR) of the system drive and then modifies the partition table. The experts noticed that […]
Researchers at PhishMe found the names of Game of Thrones show characters and other references into the script used to spread the Locky ransomware. The fantasy drama television series Game of Thrones has an amazing number of fans, including the authors of the Locky ransomware. The discovery was made by researchers at security firm PhishMe that found the […]
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Researchers spotted a new widespread ransomware campaign leveraging emails with malicious attachments using Herbalife branded messages. Researchers at security firm Barracuda have spotted a new widespread ransomware campaign leveraging emails with malicious attachments, some of them pretend to be sent by the l multi-level marketing nutrition company Herbalife. More than 20 million Herbalife branded emails were sent in a 24 hour […]