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Point Blank Gamers Targeted with Backdoor Malware
2019-04-24 15:16

The malware hides in the legitimate game downloads, signed with a real certificate; connections to ShadowHammer have been found.

G7 Comes Out in Favor of Encryption Backdoors
2019-04-23 14:14

From a G7 meeting of interior ministers in Paris this month, an "outcome document": Encourage Internet companies to establish lawful access solutions for their products and services, including...

Windows Flaw Exploited to Deliver PowerShell Backdoor
2019-04-15 11:10

A local privilege escalation vulnerability patched recently by Microsoft in its Windows operating system had been exploited by malicious actors to deliver a PowerShell backdoor. read more

Backdoors inevitably create vulnerabilities that can be exploited by malicious actors
2019-04-04 04:45

73 percent of IT security professionals believe countries with government-mandated encryption backdoors are more susceptible to nation-state attacks. The Venafi survey on government-mandated...

Kaspersky: Asus shipped 'million-plus' pre-pwned PCs that downloaded backdoor from update server
2019-03-25 18:34

Hackers were interested in 600 or so targets, it is claimed Asus may have shipped more than a million computers with compromised firmware that downloaded and ran spyware on the machines, Kaspersky...

Supply-Chain Attack Used to Install Backdoors on ASUS Computers
2019-03-25 17:16

Hijacked Software Update Utility Could Have Impacted Over 1 Million ASUS Users Over 1 million ASUS users may have been impacted after attackers managed to inject a backdoor in the ASUS Live Update...

Some ASUS Updates Drop Backdoors on PCs in ‘Operation ShadowHammer’
2019-03-25 16:40

The attack appears to be associated with a China-backed APT actor.

Slack, GitHub Abused by New SLUB Backdoor in Targeted Attacks
2019-03-08 14:22

Researchers from Trend Micro have come across a new piece of malware that abuses GitHub and Slack for command and control (C&C) communications. read more

Guess who's addicted to GitHub, busy on Slack, stuck in 2015? No, not another hipster: It's the Slub backdoor malware
2019-03-08 07:04

Panic, flee, cry – or just update Windows for fsck's sake A new malware strain tapped into GitHub posts and Slack channels to siphon precious data from infected Windows PCs, it is claimed.…

Did you know?! Ghidra, the NSA's open-sourced decompiler toolkit, is ancient Norse for 'No backdoors, we swear!'
2019-03-06 03:48

Reverse-engineering suite now available to download... and maybe run in a VM, eh? RSA The NSA has released its home-grown open-source reverse-engineering suite Ghidra that folks can use to poke...