Security News

Researchers Earn $100,000 for Hacking Pixel Phone
2018-01-18 06:23

A team of researchers has earned more than $100,000 from Google for an Android exploit chain that can be used to hack the company’s Pixel phone remotely simply by getting the targeted user to...

Fancy Bear Targets US Senate, Security Researchers Warn
2018-01-15 14:03

DNC Hackers Target Lawmakers With Decoy Sites; Some Senators Demand ActionThe cyber espionage group that executed a campaign against the Democratic Party has been gearing up to attack the U.S....

Researchers uncover major security vulnerabilities in ICS mobile applications
2018-01-11 13:30

IOActive and Embedi researchers found 147 cybersecurity vulnerabilities in 34 mobile applications used in tandem with SCADA systems. Proof-of-concept Attack on Victim HMI Panel View According to...

Hackers Already Targeting Pyeongchang Olympics: Researchers
2018-01-06 21:47

Hackers have already begun targeting the Pyeongchang Olympic Games with malware-infected emails which may be aimed at stealing passwords or financial information, researchers said Saturday. read more

Lazarus Hackers Phish For Bitcoins, Researchers Warn
2017-12-18 13:48

Bitcoin Exchange Job Lure Traces to Hackers Tied to North KoreaBitcoin-seeking phishing attacks have been trying to socially engineer would-be cryptocurrency exchange executives, warn researchers...

Google Researcher Finds Critical Flaw in Keeper Password Manager
2017-12-18 07:00

Google Project Zero researcher Tavis Ormandy recently discovered that the Keeper password manager had been affected by a critical flaw similar to one he identified just over one year ago in the...

Iran Used "Triton" Malware to Target Saudi Arabia: Researchers
2017-12-15 17:32

The recently uncovered malware known as “Triton” and “Trisis” was likely developed by Iran and used to target an organization in Saudi Arabia, according to industrial cybersecurity and threat...

Google Researcher Releases iOS 11 Jailbreak Exploit
2017-12-12 08:11

Google Project Zero researcher Ian Beer has released a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit that could pave the way for the first iOS 11 jailbreak. read more

Google Researcher Releases iOS Exploit—Could Enable iOS 11 Jailbreak
2017-12-12 07:48

As promised last week, Google's Project Zero researcher Ian Beer now publicly disclosed an exploit that works on almost all 64-bit Apple devices running iOS 11.1.2 or earlier, which can be used to...

Patch of Dirty COW Vulnerability Incomplete, Researchers Claim
2017-11-30 18:28

The “Dirty COW” vulnerability (CVE-2016–5195) discovered last year in Linux was incompletely patched, Bindecy researchers say. read more