A new strain of ATM jackpotting malware dubbed ATMJackpot has been discovered by experts at Netskope Threat Research Labs. The malware is still under development and appears to have originated in Hong Kong, it has a smaller system footprint compared with similar threats. “Netskope Threat Research Labs has discovered a new ATM malware, “ATMJackpot.” The malware […]
A new variant of the infamous Agent Tesla spyware was spotted by experts at Fortinet, the malware has been spreading via weaponize Microsoft Word documents. Agent Tesla is a spyware that is used to spy on the victims by collecting keystrokes, system clipboard, screenshots, and credentials from the infected system. To do this, the spyware […]
After the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal, Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg admitted that the company cannot rule out other cases of misuse. In the wake of recent revelations about the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook Chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg doesn’t exclude other data misuse. Sandberg gave two interviews last weeks to National Public Radio and NBC’s “Today […]
Early this year at least three European financial institutions were hit by DDoS attacks powered by a new variant of the Mirai botnet. A variant of the Mirai botnet, composed at lease of 13,000 compromised IoT devices was used to launch a series of DDoS attacks against financial sector businesses. The DDoS attacks peaked at up […]
Security experts have discovered a vulnerability in the Spring Framework that could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on applications built with it. Security researchers have discovered three vulnerabilities in the Spring Development Framework, one of them could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on applications built […]
A payment card breach suffered by [24]7.ai. between September 26 and October 12, 2017, is impacting major firm, including Best Buy, After Delta Air Lines and Sears Holdings. Another day another data breach, while media are reporting the security breach suffered Delta Air Lines and Sears Holdings due to the [24]7.ai a payment card breach, […]
Cisco PSIRT has published a new security advisory for abuse of the Smart Install protocol, the IT giant has identified hundreds of thousands of exposed devices online. Cisco is advising organizations that hackers could target its switches via the Smart Install protocol. The IT giant has identified hundreds of thousands of exposed devices and warned critical infrastructure […]
Security experts at Trend Micro have discovered a new macOS backdoor that they linked to the APT 32 (OceanLotus, APT-C-00, SeaLotus, and Cobalt Kitty) cyber espionage group. The APT32 group has been active since at least 2013, according to the experts it is a state-sponsored hacking group. The hackers hit organizations across multiple industries and have also targeted foreign […]
Third-party scrapers have exploited an issue in the Facebook ’s search function that allows anyone to look up users via their email address or phone numbers. Facebook revealed on Wednesday that 87 million users have been affected by the Cambridge Analytica case, much more than 50 million users initially thought. Facebook is the middle of a storm, Mark […]
The North Korea-linked APT group known as Lazarus made the headlines again for attacking an online casino in Central America and other targets. The activity of the Lazarus Group (aka Hidden Cobra) surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks and experts that investigated on the crew consider it highly sophisticated. […]