Month: September 2019

Android smartphones from multiple vendors, including Samsung, Huawei, LG, and Sony are susceptible to an advanced type attack that can alter device settings via a short text message. […]

More than 1,000 security bug bounty reports were submitted during a three-day live hacking event in Las Vegas. The total payout for the participating hackers was almost $2 million. Three organizations paid the money, one of them covering more than half of the total. […]

Exploit broker Zerodium has updated the payouts for eligible zero-day Android and iOS exploits, with rewards for Android 0days having surpassed the ones for iOS for the first time since 2015 when the company was founded. […]

A new social engineering toolkit called Domen has been discovered that uses fake browser and program update alerts on compromised sites to infect users with malware and remote access software. […]

Baseboard management controllers (BMC) of some Supermicro servers are vulnerable to unauthorized virtual USB mounting attacks that can be carried out remotely. […]

The operators of Nemty ransomware appear to have struck a distribution deal to target systems with outdated technology that can still be infected by exploit kits. […]

Cybercriminals are taking advantage of the popularity of the BleachBit disk cleaning tool to spread Azorult information stealer. For this purpose, they created a static web page that purports to be the official website for the utility. […]