The Shifu Banking Trojan is a new sophisticated malware that has been used to target the customers of more than a dozen Japanese banks. Shifu is the name of a new banking trojan that has been around since at least April targeting Japanese banks and a number of European e-banking platforms. “Shifu currently targets 14 […]
ClearSky detected new activity from the Rocket kitten APT group against 550 targets, most of which are located in the Middle East. Cyber espionage nowadays plays an important role in politics, it helps governments to decide their “friends” as well their “enemies”, and the more dependent we are of technology the more Cyber espionage will […]
The security vulnerability Filet-O-Firewall in UPnP is exposing millions of home networking devices at risk for cyber attacks. According to a security advisory recently issued by the CERT at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, security vulnerabilities in UPnP are exposing millions of home networking devices at risk for cyber attacks. The problem […]
The Obama administration weighs sanctioning China and Russia in response to recent cyber attacks who have exposed sensitive data of the US Govt and US firms. The US Government is considering sanctions against both Russian and Chinese hackers in response to the hacking campaign targeting US entities. The news was reported by several U.S. officials yesterday who […]
Alleged Lizard Squad hackers have DDoSed the website of the British NCA and have downed it after law enforcement arrested six teenagers clients of the group Hackers have coordinated a cyber attack against the website of the National Crime Agency (NCA) in revenge for the arrests of six teenagers that have used the DDoS tool […]
A huge number of individuals are in danger because of massive attacks by Russian hackers, total 97 websites have been broken and most of them are dating sites. Security experts at Hold Security discovered that a significant amount of websites, including dating portals like the Ashley Madison, has been targeted by massive attacks managed by Russian hackers. The […]
A group of researchers have developed a method dubbed Mass Vetting (MassVet) to find unknown malicious apps in app stores in 10 Seconds. A group of University researchers has created a new method for detecting malicious apps running on an Android devices called MassVet. MassVet doesnât use the old method of signatures scanning, instead it compares […]
Agora black marketplace announced Tuesday evening that it will go temporary offline fearing the exploitation of the Tor flaws recently discovered. Operators of principal black markets are concerned about the real level of anonymity offered by the Tor network after the discovery of critical vulnerabilities affecting the anonymizing system. The administrators of the Agora black market, one […]
Security experts at Sensecy have uncovered ORX-Locker, a Darknet Ransomware-as-a-service platform that could allow everyone to become a cyber criminal. It is becoming even easier to become a cyber-criminal thanks to the model of sale known as malware-as-a-service that offers off-the-shelf malware for rent or sale. Recently malware authors started to offer also Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS), in […]
Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, the famous car hackers who recently demonstrated that some Fiat Chrysler cars can be remotely hijacked, have been hired by ridesharing giant Uber. The popular hackers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek who recently hackers a Fiat connected car have announced that they have been hired by the Uber Company. Miller and Valasek […]