Security News

Here's How CIA Malware Tracks Geo-Location of its Targets (The Hackers News)
2017-06-28 06:03

WikiLeaks has just published a new batch of the ongoing Vault 7 leak, and this time the whistleblowing website has unveiled a classified malware for that tracks geo-location of targeted PCs and...

Google researcher uncovers another RCE in Microsoft Malware Protection Engine (Help Net Security)
2017-06-27 19:02

Google Project Zero researcher Tavis Ormandy has unearthed yet another critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine, which powers a number of the...

Spying on Citizens with Malware Aimed to Battle Criminals (InfoRiskToday)
2017-06-27 10:33

The latest ISMG Security Report leads off with a look at the growing industry of mobile spyware designed exclusively for governments, but often misused to track citizens and activists. Also,...

Another RCE Vulnerability Patched in Microsoft Malware Protection Engine (Threatpost)
2017-06-26 17:54

Google Project Zero’s Tavis Ormandy found another remote code execution vulnerability in the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine, the third since early May.

Microsoft Downplays Impact of "Fireball" Malware (Security Week)
2017-06-23 16:36

The Fireball malware detailed early this month might not have have had as much impact as originally reported, Microsoft claims. read more

Security firm claims malware infection hit 250 million; Microsoft says it didn’t (ArsTechnica)
2017-06-23 12:00

Either way, Microsoft assures us that Windows 10 S would have been immune.

Forget about the malware, go after the attacker’s tactics, techniques and procedures (Help Net Security)
2017-06-22 14:32

The cybercriminal’s options for monetizing attacks has never been broader, less complex, or less risky, and attempts to detect intrusions by detecting the malware they use has never been more...

Brutal Kangaroo: CIA-developed Malware for Hacking Air-Gapped Networks Covertly (The Hackers News)
2017-06-22 04:29

WikiLeaks has published a new batch of the ongoing Vault 7 leak, this time detailing a tool suite – which is being used by the CIA for Microsoft Windows that targets "closed networks by air gap...

Cisco Releases Open Source Malware Signature Generator (Security Week)
2017-06-20 14:48

Cisco’s Talos intelligence and research group announced on Monday the availability of a new open source framework designed for automatically generating antivirus signatures from malware. read more

IoT Malware Activity Already More Than Doubled 2016 Numbers (Threatpost)
2017-06-19 14:28

The number of new malware samples in the wild this year targeting connected internet-of-things (IoT) devices has already more than doubled last year’s total.