Proofpoint researchers have discovered a new remote access Trojan (RAT) as well as an updated version of an already identified banking Trojan and claim that both the RATs are involved in recently detected phishing campaigns targeting the retail,...
Security cameras and other IoT devices have been frequently identified to be incompetent and plagued with a variety of built-in flaws that render them vulnerable to exploitation by hackers. The same has been proven yet again by a team of security...
What we know so far about Spectre attacks is that it relies upon execution of malicious code. The code is executed on computers having speculative-execution design flaws in processor chip; once a device is compromised, it becomes possible to...
LifeLock, an Arizona-based identity theft protection firm may have exposed email addresses of millions of its customers - Simply put: A firm vowing to protect online identity of its customers may have exposed their identity to malicious hackers...
WannaCry ransomware hero is facing charges in the United States for developing Kronos banking trojan. In August 2017, Marcus Hutchins (@MalwareTechBlog on Twitter) aka WannaCry ransomware hero was arrested in the United States by the FBI and...
The Bluetooth flaw also opens door to a man-in-the-middle attack. The IT security researchers at Israel Institute of Technology have discovered a critical security vulnerability in some implementations of the Bluetooth standard in which not...
This is the first publicly-disclosed vulnerability in a serverless platform. Experts at IBM (The International Business Machines Corporation) have patched a critical vulnerability in its Cloud Functions which if exploited could allow remote...
The IT security researchers at cyber resilience firm Upguard discovered a massive trove of highly sensitive data publically available to be accessed by anyone. The data belonged to hundreds of automotive giants including Tesla,...
Armis, an Internet of Things (IoT) security vendor and cyber-security firm, reports that about half a billion smart devices being used around the globe are vulnerable to a decade-old attack called DNS rebinding. It is the same firm that previously...
Cybercriminals part of a notorious hacking group attacked the PIR Bank of Russia and stole $1m. The hacking was carried out after infiltrating the bank’s systems by compromising an old, outdated router. The router was installed at one of the...
