Tag: security

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a warning on Twitter regarding sextortion campaigns used by scammers to target young people from all over the United States. […]

Several malicious spam campaigns are distributing new malware strains according to Trend Micro researchers, with the Gelup downloader and the FlowerPippi backdoor being used to attack targets from the Middle East, Japan, India, the Philippines, and Argentina. […]

Sodinokibi ransomware is looking to increase its privileges on a victim machine by exploiting a vulnerability in the Win32k component present on Windows 7 through 10 and Server editions. […]

The BianLian banking Trojan has been upgraded with two new modules designed to record the screens of infected Android devices and to create a SSH server for camouflaging its communication channels. […]

US Cyber Command issued a malware alert on Twitter regarding the active exploitation of the CVE-2017-11774 Outlook vulnerability to attack US government agencies, allowing the attackers to execute arbitrary commands on compromised systems. […]

A Lua-based backdoor malware capable of targeting both Linux and Windows users while securing its communication channels via DNS over HTTPS (DoH) was discovered by researchers at Network Security Research Lab of Qihoo 360. […]

Attacks on banks in Bangladesh that caused losses of at least $3 million may be the work of the Silence hacker outfit, a relatively new, financially-motivated group. […]

OpenPGP installations can grind to a halt and fail to verify the authenticity of downloaded packages as the keyserver network has been flooded with bogus extra signatures attesting ownership of a certificate. […]

Tweetdeck, the social media dashboard web app for Twitter accounts management, is down, experiencing a worldwide outage which blocks users from logging in. […]