FireEye discovered that the Group of hackers dubbed APT3 that managed the Op Clandestine Fox is now running a new campaign dubbed Operation Double Tap. Researchers at FireEye have uncovered a new advanced persistent threat crew dubbed APT3, which is using exploits targeting recently disclosed vulnerabilities in Windows. The experts at FireEye believe that APT3 is the same […]
The International bank Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) announced that its systems suffered a major data breach. Last week the International bank Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) has announced that its computer networks in Turkey were breached by unknowns. The data breach has exposed the personal data of about 2.7 million customers of the HSBC bank, […]
Russian Internet Traffic redirected by a Chinese operator due to routing errors caused by a weakness in the Border gateway protocol (BGP). The Russian Internet traffic in several circumstances has been re-routed outside the country, the incidents seem to be caused by routing errors made by China Telecom. The news has been published by the Internet monitoring service Dyn in a blog […]
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The security firm AdaptiveMobile has discovered a new variant of Koler ransomware is capable of self-replication via SMS messages. A new strain of the Koler Android ransomware is threatening the mobile industry, the new variant spreads itself via SMSs and holds the victim’s device phone hostage until a ransom is paid. The Koler ransomware were detected by experts […]
Security experts at Google and McAfee have discovered a new Zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft OLE being exploited in targeted attacks. Early this week, Microsoft issued the security advisory 3010060 to warn its customer of a new Zero-Day vulnerability that affects all supported versions of Windows OS except, Windows Server 2003. The OLE Packager is the component that is affected by the zero-day, […]
Principal security firms united in a joint effort dubbed Operation SMN against the cyber espionage group known as Hidden Lynx and its arsenal. The Hidden Lynx APT is a China-based group of hackers that conducted numerous cyber espionage campaign against U.S. defense contractors and other foreign organizations. The name Hidden Lynx was assigned to the APT by experts at […]
Yahoo! Contributors Network was affected by a serious Time based Blind SQL Injection vulnerability which allows the theft of sensitive data. The Yahoo! Contributors Network allows writers to submit articles, videos, it also allows contributors to receive assignments from Yahoo related various domains like Sports and Finance. The security researcher Behrouz Sadeghipour reported to that The Yahoo! Contributors Network (contributor.yahoo.com) is […]
The security researcher Michal Zalewski revealed the details of other two additional bugs he discovered in the Bourne Again Shell after the Bash Bug case. IT community worldwide has been shocked by the discovery of the Bash Bug flaw, a vulnerability that was present in the popular Bash component for more than two decades. While principal […]
Ello, the new social network which is considered the anti-Facebook, was knocked down on Sunday by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. In these days, many articles reported the born of Ello, a new social network considered as a possible antagonist of the giant Facebook. Ello creator considers it as a “tool for empowerment” […]