Security News

Nine words to ruin your Monday: Emergency Internet Explorer patch amid in-the-wild attacks
2019-09-23 21:36

Update browser ASAP after Google gurus spot miscreants abusing bug to hijack PCs Microsoft today issued a rare emergency security update for Internet Explorer to address a critical flaw in the...

Employers Beware: Microsoft Word ‘Resume’ Phish Delivers Quasar RAT
2019-08-27 18:20

A round of phishing emails purports to be from job seekers - but actually uses a slew of detection evasion tactics to download malware on victim systems.

Asruex Malware Exploits Old vulnerabilities to Infect PDF, Word Docs
2019-08-23 17:23

A recently observed variant of the Asruex backdoor acts as an infector by targeting old vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office and Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x, Trend Micro reports.  read more

New Ursnif Variant Spreads Through Infected Word Documents
2019-08-09 15:03

Banking Trojan Designed to Steal Passwords and CredentialsA new variant of the Ursnif Trojan is targeting vulnerable systems in an attempt to steal banking passwords and other credentials. The...

Hacked With Words: Email Attack Sophistication Surges
2019-06-21 13:48

Barracuda's Michael Flouton on Social Engineering, Account Takeover and MoreThe early days of email attacks - so much noise in the form of malware, spam and links - have given way to attacks that...

The curious case of a WordPress plugin, a rival site spammed with traffic, a war of words, and legal threats
2019-04-02 07:04

Devs strip code from toolkit amid blogger dramarama A British web-dev outfit has denied allegations it deliberately hid code inside its WordPress plugins that, among other things, spammed a...

What was that P word? Ah. Privacy. Yes, we'll think about privacy, says FCC mulling cellphone location data overhaul
2019-03-15 20:57

Commissioners still doing their best to ignore bounty hunter stalking scandal Analysis America's comms regulator has finally pinky-promised to at least consider people's privacy when it looks into...

You. Shall. Not. Pass... word: Soon, you may be logging into websites using your phone, face, fingerprint or token
2019-03-05 21:37

Just don't lose your hardware keys RSA At 2004's RSA Conference, then Microsoft chairman Bill Gates predicted the death of the password because passwords have problems and people are bad at...

GandCrab ransomware and Ursnif virus spreading via MS Word macros
2019-01-25 11:33

Security researchers have discovered two separate malware campaigns, one of which is distributing the Ursnif data-stealing trojan and the GandCrab ransomware in the wild, whereas the second one is...

A picture tells a 1,000 words. Pixels pwn up to 5 million nerds: Crims use steganography to stash bad code in ads
2019-01-24 23:56

Apple fans lured into installing malware via crafty JavaScript A strain of malware has been clocked using steganography to run malicious JavaScript on Macs via images in online banner ads, it was...