Security News

The single sign-on account hijacking threat and what can we do about it?
2018-08-22 14:54

Single sign-on (SSO) lets users avoid creating and managing accounts across different services, but what happens when that main, identity-providing account gets compromised? Can users remediate a...

BGP Hijacking Attacks Target US Payment Processors
2018-08-07 20:16

Several payment processing companies in the United States were targeted recently in BGP hijacking attacks whose goal was to redirect users to malicious websites, Oracle reported last week. read more

Beware this Android emulator, it's hijacking your GPU to mine cryptocurrency
2018-06-18 18:55

Users have accused Andy OS Android Emulator of secretly dropping a cryptocurrency miner on your system that runs endlessly.

DNS-Hijacking Malware Targeting iOS, Android and Desktop Users Worldwide
2018-05-21 15:03

Widespread routers' DNS hijacking malware that recently found targeting Android devices has now been upgraded its capabilities to target iOS devices as well as desktop users. Dubbed Roaming...

MyEtherWallet users robbed after successful DNS hijacking attack
2018-04-25 20:00

Unknown attackers have managed to steal approximately $150,000 in Ethereum from a number of MyEtherWallet (MEW) users, after having successfully redirected them to a phishing site posing as...

Android Trojan Spreads via DNS Hijacking
2018-04-17 13:03

An Android Trojan masquerading as popular mobile applications is propagating via smartphones roaming between Wi-Fi networks, Kaspersky Lab warns. read more

Hijacking Emergency Sirens
2018-04-17 11:29

Turns out it's easy to hijack emergency sirens with a radio transmitter....

Hijacking Computers for Cryptocurrency Mining
2018-03-21 11:27

Interesting paper "A first look at browser-based cryptojacking": Abstract: In this paper, we examine the recent trend towards in-browser mining of cryptocurrencies; in particular, the mining of...

GitLab Patches Domain Hijacking Vulnerability
2018-02-23 12:30

Open source Git repository management system GitLab has addressed a security hole that could have been exploited to hijack users’ custom domains and point them to malicious content. GitLab Pages...

Warning: New Undetectable DNS Hijacking Malware Targeting Apple macOS Users
2018-01-12 17:48

A security researcher has revealed details of a new piece of undetectable malware targeting Apple's Mac computers—reportedly first macOS malware of 2018. Dubbed OSX/MaMi, an unsigned Mach-O 64-bit...