Security News

Unskilled Pro-ISIS Hackers A Growing Threat (Threatpost)
2016-04-28 18:41

Pro-ISIS hackers promote violence and are making strides with new tools, tactics and procedures, establishing themselves as a growing threat.

Scourge of Android Overlay Malware on Rise (Threatpost)
2016-04-28 17:12

The black market for malicious Android software is heating up thanks to a rise in popularity of overlay malware.

Office 365 Vulnerability Exposed Any Federated Account (Threatpost)
2016-04-28 14:44

Microsoft in January patched a severe Office 365 vulnerability that exposed accounts whose domains were configured as federated.

Tuto4PC Utilities Silently Install 12M Backdoors, Cisco (Threatpost)
2016-04-27 17:23

Security experts estimate 12 million users have been enticed to download software from the French firm Tuto4PC whose programs and silently install backdoors on PCs.

Firefox 46 Patches Critical Memory Vulnerabilities (Threatpost)
2016-04-27 16:49

Mozilla released Firefox 46, which includes patches for one critical and four high-severity vulnerabilities, all of which can lead to remote code execution.

Steam Patches Broken Crypto in Wake of Replay, Padding Oracle Attacks (Threatpost)
2016-04-27 16:43

The digital gaming platform Steam was quick to patch a cryptographic issue in the client recently that could have allowed an attacker to read sensitive information sent over its network, take over...

Platinum APT Group Abuses Windows Hotpatching (Threatpost)
2016-04-27 14:28

Microsoft disclosed details on the Platinum APT group and its arsenal of backdoors, keyloggers and its abuse of Windows hotpatching to load malicious code on compromised computers.

Empty DDoS Threats Still Net Attackers $100,000 (Threatpost)
2016-04-26 18:43

A group posing as the Armada Collective is threatening businesses with large-scale DDoS attacks without carrying out the attacks. So far, they've been paid more than $100,000.

Verizon DBIR Top Threats: Credential Theft, Phishing and PoS (Threatpost)
2016-04-26 18:16

Most alarming is not what's new in Verizon's 2016 Data Breach Investigations Report, rather what's old and still causing chaos behind corporate firewalls.

New Decryptor Unlocks CryptXXX Ransomware (Threatpost)
2016-04-26 15:33

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab today published a decryptor that recovers files encrypted by the CryptXXX ransomware.