Paige Thompson, the alleged hacker behind the Capital One hack and attacks on 30 other organizations has been indicted on wire fraud and computer fraud. Paige Thompson, a transgender woman, suspected to be the hacker behind the Capital One hack and attacks on 30 other organizations has been indicted on wire fraud and computer fraud. In […]
HackerOne announced that five more hackers have become millionaires thanks to their contributes to the bug bounty programs managed by the platform. Bug bounty platform HackerOne announced that four more hackers have become millionaires after participating in the bug bounty programs managed by the platform. In March, HackerOne announced that two of its members have […]
Lumber Liquidators, a leading specialty retailer of hard-surface flooring in North America, announced that a malware attack took down its network. North American hard-surface flooring retailer Lumber Liquidators revealed that it was victim of a security incident, a malware-based attack took down part of its network for nearly a week. Lumber Liquidators has 416 locations […]
An expert published technical details of recently disclosed Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) flaws that can be exploited to take complete control of vulnerable systems. Security researcher Pedro Ribeiro, aka âbashis,â has released the details of three the recently addressed vulnerabilities in the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) products along with Metasploit modules for their exploitation. […]
Security experts at Aite Group and Arxan Technologies have discovered that hackers under the Magecart umbrella have compromised 80 more eCommerce sites. Security experts at Aite Group and Arxan Technologies have discovered that Magecart hackers continue to target online stores to steal credit card data, in recent operations, they have compromised 80 more eCommerce sites. […]
The French police force, National Gendarmerie, announced to have neutralized the Retadup malware on over 850,000 computers taking over its C2 server. The French police force, National Gendarmerie, announced the successful takedown of a huge RETADUP botnet after it has taken the control of its command and control (C2) server. The operation allowed the France law enforcement […]
Recent campaigns show threat actors behind the Dridex and Locky malware families, the TA505 group, have updated tactics and expanded its target list. Trend Micro revealed that the TA505 group that is behind the Dridex and Locky malware families continue to make small changes to its operations. TA505 hacking group has been active since 2014 […]
Security experts from Kaspersky spotted a malware in the free version of the popular PDF creator application CamScanner app. CamScanner is a very popular Phone PDF creator app with more than 100 million downloads on Google Play Store. Experts from Kaspersky have discovered malware in the free Android version of the CamScanner app that could […]
A recently reported APT group dubbed Lyceum group targets Oil and Gas organizations in the Middle East with simple techniques. The activity of the Lyceum APT group was first documented earlier in August by researchers at ICS security firm Dragos that tracked it as Hexane. Security experts at Dragos Inc. reported that Hexane is targeting organizations […]
The open-source emulator QEMU is affected by a flaw that could be exploited to trigger a (DoS) condition or gain arbitrary code execution. QEMU (short for Quick Emulator) is a free and open-source emulator that performs hardware virtualization. It emulates the machine’s processor through dynamic binary translation and provides a set of different hardware and device models for the machine, enabling it to run a […]