The announcement about the Yahoo data breach is online, the company confirmed that hackers managed to access data from at least 500 million user accounts. Today I wrote about the imminent announce of the Yahoo data breach related to an incident that resulted in the leakage of 200 million Yahoo account credentials this summer. The company has finally […]
Following an investigation by Pen Test Partners, British Telecom (BT) has released a firmware upgrade for their popular range of Wi-Fi extenders. The investigation uncovered vulnerabilities within the firmware when left the device exposed to possible XSS (Cross Site Scripting) Exploits as well as the ability to change the user’s password without notification. By combining […]
It’s a question of hours, security experts believe Yahoo will confirm the massive data breach that exposed at least 200 Million Yahoo accounts. Yahoo is ready to confirm a massive data breach that affected its service that has exposed several hundred million user accounts. “Yahoo is poised to confirm a massive data breach of its […]
Cisco has issued a security patch to address a remote hijacking vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2016-6374, in the Cloud Services Platform (CSP). This patch is very important, CISCO urges all customers who run CSP 2100 software to install the 2.1.0 update that addresses a “high” risk remote code execution flaw. The CISCO Cloud Services Platform (CSP) is […]
InfoArmor has discovered the RAUM tool in criminal forums, it is a special tool to distribute malware by packaging it with popular torrent files. It is not a novelty, torrent files are a privileged channel for malware diffusion, according to a study conducted by researchers at Digital Citizens Alliance and RiskIQ, almost one-third of the 800 torrent sites […]
The new variant of the popular iSpy keylogger (version 3.x) was available in the criminal underground with sophisticated features. Security researchers at Zscaler warn of a new sophisticated commercial keylogger dubbed iSpy. The malware is a perfect surveillance tool, it was developed to capture victim’s keystroke and screenshots, access webcam, steal user data and license keys […]
The Shadowserver Foundation has conducted a scan of the Internet for CISCO devices running IOS software affected by the CVE-2016-6415 vulnerability. Recently experts from CISCO discovered a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2016-6415, in IOS system,while investigating the Equation Group‘s exploits leaked by the Shadow Broker hacker group. In particular, experts from CISCO were evaluating the impact […]
Microsoft recently issued the patches to fix set of flaws in Internet Explorer, years after their discovery by black-hats in the hacking underground. Microsoft finally fixed a set of vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer years after they were discovered by black-hats in the hacking underground. I have contacted a black hat in the underground that who made […]
Security firm Certego has been detecting multiple viral spam campaigns leveraging a new malware evasion technique it called BadEpilogue. Starting from May 2016, Certego Threat Intelligence platform has been detecting multiple viral spam campaigns using a new evasion technique. These attacks are able to hide malicious attachments inside a specific area of the MIME/Multipart structure and […]
Google has removed from the Google Play store four apps trojanized with the Overseer malware to target overseas travelers seeking embassy information. Google has removed from the official Google Play store four trojanized apps that targeted overseas travelers seeking embassy information and news for specific European countries. Three apps were named “Embassy”, “European News”, “Russian […]