New evidence collected by prosecutors shows lottery machines were rigged to generate predictable numbers on specific days of the year. Last year, the security director of a US lottery was discovered hacking the mechanism of the extraction in order to predict the winning tickets. According to new details revealed by The Des Moines Register, the […]
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Security experts shut down the dreaded Linux Mumblehard botnet Cyber Justice Team claims a massive Data Leak from the Syrian Gov Security Affairs newsletter Round 55 – News of the week Be careful Amazon is selling products […]
Experts at Cisco Systems discovered more than 3 million vulnerable servers exposed on the Internet while scanning for the presence of JBOSS Backdoor According to Cisco Systems, more than 3 million servers exposed on the Internet are potentially open to Samsam ransomware-based attacks because they’re running vulnerable software. Attackers are targeting vulnerabilities in servers to […]
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs The website of the Hungarian Government temporarily shut by cyberattack CloudFlare considers 94 percent of the Tor traffic as per se malicious Security Affairs newsletter Round 54 – News of the week Hacking connected lightbulbs to breach […]
A threat actor named TA530 group, has been targeting executives in an attempt to infect their machine with various malware, including ransomware. Ransomware continues to represent one of the greatest threat for the Internet users, the FBI recently issued a confidential urgent “Flash” message to the businesses and organizations about the Samsam Ransomware. Security firms […]
Officials confirmed that the Hungarian government website came under attack from outside the country. The access to many websites was blocked. The Hungarian Government announced that its computer network was targeted by a major cyber attack that temporarily blocked the access to several websites. The attacks hit the main Hungarian government website and many other sites, including […]
Security experts at FireEye have spotted the activity of a criminal organization that using the custom PoS malware TreasureHunt to target small retailers. Security experts at FireEye have spotted the activity of a criminal organization that using custom PoS malware family to target retailers. Hackers are using the PoS malware dubbed TreasureHunt or TreasureHunter to steal payment card data and sells […]
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Redaction error reveals Feds ordered Lavabit to spy on Snowden Olympic Vision BEC attacks target businesses worldwide with keyloggers Security Affairs newsletter Round 52 – News of the week A iOS zero-day allows iCloud photos and videos […]
The CVE-2016-0636 flaw affects Java SE running in web browsers on desktops, attackers can trigger it remotely to takeover your PC. Once again a serious security vulnerability affects the Java Oracle software, the new flaw coded as CVE-2016-0636 scored a 9.3 on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System bug severity rating. The CVE-2016-0636 vulnerability affects Java SE running in […]
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs A new massive spam campaign is spreading Locky ransomware downloaders Security Affairs newsletter Round 51 – News of the week CISCO warns customers of high-severity flaws in modems and gateways Reuters – Malware suspected in the Bangladesh […]