Security News

$90K Windows Zero Day Gets a Price Cut (Threatpost)
2016-06-10 12:00

Hackers who claim to have found a zero-day vulnerability in Windows have dropped their price on the exploit from to $85,000.

Windows BITS ‘Notification’ Feature Used to Deliver Malware (Threatpost)
2016-06-08 19:11

According to security researchers attackers are exploiting a Windows BITS lesser-known “notification” feature to reinfect PCs with malware over and over again.

Malware exploits BITS to retain foothold on Windows systems (Help Net Security)
2016-06-07 21:04

If you’re sure that you have cleaned your system of malware, but you keep seeing malware-related network alerts, it’s possible that at some point you’ve been hit with malware that uses Windows’...

Week in review: Windows 0day for sale, and lessons learned from 17 years as an infosec trainer (Help Net Security)
2016-06-06 12:00

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, reviews and articles: ICS-focused IRONGATE malware has some interesting tricks up its sleeve FireEye researchers discovered a...

Windows zero-day exploit offered for sale on underground market (Help Net Security)
2016-06-01 15:26

Someone is selling an exploit for a Windows zero-day on an underground market for Russian-speaking cyber criminals, and the current price is set at $90,000. Trustwave researchers have discovered...