Security News

Week in review: Lure10 attack, DoublePulsar exploit proliferation (Help Net Security)
2017-05-01 01:55

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: BrickerBot bricked 2 million IoT devices, its author claims The author of BrickerBot, which “bricks” IoT devices by...

Zimperium Acquisition Program Publishes Exploits for Patched Android Bugs (Threatpost)
2017-04-25 14:30

Exploits for patched Android elevation of privilege vulnerabilities were published through the Zimperium N-Days Exploit Acquisition Program.

NSA’s DoublePulsar Kernel Exploit In Use Internet-Wide (Threatpost)
2017-04-24 19:59

Scans show tens of thousands of Windows servers infected with the DoublePulsar kernel exploit leaked by the ShadowBrokers 10 days ago.

Stuxnet LNK Exploits Still Widely Circulated (Threatpost)
2017-04-20 16:15

Endpoints are still encountering exploits for the LNK vulnerability, one of the principal infection mechanisms used by the Stuxnet worm.

Oracle fixes Solaris 10 flaw targeted by leaked NSA exploit (Help Net Security)
2017-04-19 20:46

Oracle has pushed out a record-breaking 299 fixes for vulnerabilities in its many, many products, and among them is a Solaris 10 bug whose existence has been revealed through Shadow Brokers’...

Meet PINLogger, the drive-by exploit that steals smartphone PINs (ArsTechnica)
2017-04-18 17:20

Sensors in phones running both iOS and Android reveal all kinds of sensitive info.