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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
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...
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...
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...
The attack appears to be associated with a China-backed APT actor.
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
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.…
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...
A recently discovered backdoor is used in attacks targeting victims in and around the South East Asia region, Palo Alto Networks security researchers warn. read more