21 Aug PokerTracker.com Hacked to Inject Payment Card Stealing Script A curious case of web-based card skimming activity revealed that the Poker Tracker website had been compromised and loaded JavaScript that stole payment information from customers. […]
21 Aug Silence Advanced Hackers Attack Banks All Over the World The activity of the advanced hacker group the researchers call Silence has increased significantly over the past year. Victims in the financial sector are scattered across more than 30 countries and financial losses have quintupled. […]
20 Aug Visa Adds New Threat Detection to Prevent Payment Fraud Visa announced the addition of new fraud threat detection and blocking tech designed to boost transaction security and, implicitly, the integrity of its payments ecosystem. […]
19 Aug Adwind Remote Access Trojan Hits Utilities Sector Attackers are targeting entities from the utility industry with the Adwind Remote Access Trojan (RAT) malware via a malspam campaign that uses URL redirection to malicious payloads. […]
19 Aug iOS 12.4 Jailbreak Released After Apple Unpatches Older Bug iOS security researcher Pwn20wnd released a public jailbreak for the latest stable iOS version after Apple reintroduced a vulnerability patched in iOS 12.3, previously exploited to jailbreak iOS 12.2. […]
19 Aug VLC Media Player 3.0.8 Released with 13 Security Fixes VideoLan has released VLC Media Player 3.0.8 and it is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This release fixed 13 security vulnerabilities as well as providing improvements to video playback. […]
18 Aug Router Network Isolation Broken By Covert Data Exfiltration Software-based network isolation provided by routers is not as efficient as believed, as hackers can smuggle data between the networks for exfiltration. […]
18 Aug Steam Accounts Being Stolen Through Elaborate Free Game Scam An elaborate scam is underway that pretends to be a free game giveaway site, but instead hacks a user’s Steam account, takes control over it, and then uses it to target other players. […]
18 Aug ‘Coordinated Ransomware Attack’ in Texas Hits 23 Local Governments Texas is currently fighting an unprecedented wave of ransomware attacks that has targeted local government entities in the state, with at least 23 impacted by the attacks. […]
16 Aug The Week in Ransomware – August 16th 2019 – Fairly Slow Been a pretty slow week with mostly new variants of existing ransomware being released. The most interesting story was researchers at Check Point being able to install ransomware on a Canon DSLR camera. […]