Tag: security

Whether it be malware devs contacting us about our stories or commenting in our forums, we all know that the ransomware developers monitor researchers and technology sites for information about their programs. Nothing shows this better, than a ransomware that recently decided to adopt the name given to it by researchers. […]

Hackers infecting the computer systems of the city of New Bedford, Massachusetts, with ransomware wouldn’t settle for anything less that than $5.3 million to decrypt the data. The ransom was too high and they got a big fat nothing in return. […]

Google yesterday rolled out security patches for the Android mobile operating system but did not include the fix for at least one bug that enables increasing permissions to kernel level. […]

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The operators of Nemty ransomware appear to have struck a distribution deal to target systems with outdated technology that can still be infected by exploit kits.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