The Pawn Storm APT group set up rogue VPN and SFTP servers to target Dutch Safety Board employees involved in the MH17 crash investigation. July 17, 2014, Flight MH17, traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was shot down by a missile in mysterious...
Imperva has discovered that attackers hijack CCTV cameras to launch powerful DDoS attacks exploiting weak credentials and poor configurations of IoT devices. Internet of Things devices are becoming privilege targets of threat actors that daily abuse...
The British Internet Service Provider TalkTalk discloses possible breach and admits some data are not encrypted. The investigation is still ongoing. Another illustrious victim of a data breach is in the headlines, TalkTalk Telecom Group plc has announced...
Experts at MalwareBytes uncovered a new malvertising campaign operated by Technical Support Scammers that are targeting Apple Mac owners. Scammers are prolific and ingenious guys, this time they are targeting Mac pretending to be operators of the Apple...
The ISACA study "2015 Advanced Persistent Threat Awareness-Third Annual" tries to uncover information security professionals’ understanding of APT threats. A new report published by the ISACA organization that surveyed more than 660 cyber security...
Experts at Bleeping Computer blog are reporting a new strain of ransomware dubbed LowLevel04 that is spreading via Remote Desktop and Terminal Service. Security experts at Bleeping Computer blog are reporting a new strain of ransomware dubbed LowLevel04...
A security expert conducted a series of tests on the Fitbit trackers discovering how they can be infected with a malware in just 10 seconds. The security researcher Axelle Apvrille revealed that infect Fitbit trackers with a malware is too easy. Axelle...
Serious flaws in the Network Time Protocol can be exploited to cause severe outages, eavesdrop encrypted communications, bypass authentication processes. Bad news for network administrators, new attacks on Network Time Protocol can defeat HTTPS and create...
Wikileaks has obtained and immediately released the CIA Director John Brennan private emails. It is a first lot, others will be soon published. A few days ago a teen has violated the CIA Director's private email account and leaked sensitive files including...
Updates released last week by Apple for Apple Productivity Apps fix a number of flaws that can be exploited for a number of attacks. Apple has recently released Keynote 6.6, Pages 5.6, Numbers 3.6, and iWork for iOS 2.6 to fix multiple flaws in the Productivity...