Tag: security

Chinese hackers are replacing the legitimate Narrator app on targeted Windows systems with a trojanized version that gives them remote access with privileges of the most powerful account on the operating system. […]

A zero-day exploit for the vBulletin forum platform was publicly disclosed and quickly used to attack affected versions of the forum software. It turns out, though, that this exploit has been known, utilized, and sold by researchers and attackers for years. […]

Adobe released security updates for three vulnerabilities in ColdFusion. Two of these vulnerabilities are rated as Critical as they allow code execution and can bypass access controls. The other is an labeled critical as it allows information disclosure. […]

Site administrators still using the Rich Reviews plugin for WordPress are easy targets as hackers are currently exploiting an unpatched vulnerability for malvertising campaigns. […]

A spear-phishing campaign spanning more than five months has been targeting roughly 17 U.S. utility providers between April 5 and August 29 according to research from Proofpoint’s Threat Insight Team. […]

A recently observed campaign from the Zebrocy APT operators relied on a revamped backdoor to maintain access to victim hosts and extract profiling information. […]

Emotet has started a new spam campaign that pretends to be a scanned copy of Edward Snowden’s new book. Unsuspecting users who open the attachment and enable its content will find that they have become infected with Emotet, most likely Trickbot, and possibly other malware. […]

Microsoft announced that Basic Authentication will be turned off in Exchange Online for Exchange ActiveSync (EAS), POP, IMAP, and Remote PowerShell starting October 13, 2020. […]

More than two dozen malicious Android applications with over 2.1 million installs in total were observed by security researchers while displaying aggressive full-screen ads after downloading configuration files. […]