A white hat hacker discovered how to break Tchap, a new secure messaging app launched by the French government for officials and politicians. The popular French white hat hacker Robert Baptiste (aka @fs0c131y) discovered how to break into Tchap, a new secure messaging app launched by the French government for encrypted communications between officials and […]
Other problems for Facebook that admitted to have stored millions of Instagram users’ passwords in plaintext Yesterday, Facebook made the headlines once again for alleged violations of the privacy of its users, the company admitted to have ‘unintentionally’ collected contacts from 1.5 Million email accounts without permission In March, Facebook admitted to have stored the […]
Djevair Ametovski was sentenced to 90 months in prison for operating an international cybercrime marketplace named Codeshop. Macedonian national Djevair Ametovski (32) was sentenced to 90 months in prison by US DoJ authorities for operating an international cybercrime marketplace named Codeshop. Codeshop.su was a website that specialized in selling stolen payment card data. Ametovski acquired […]
Lab Dookhtegan hackers leaked details about operations carried out by Iran-linked OilRig group, including source code of 6 tools. A hacker group that goes online with the name Lab Dookhtegan have disclosed details about operations conducted by the Iran-linked cyber-espionage group tracked as OilRig, APT34, and HelixKitten. OilRig is an Iran-linked APT group that has been […]
A ransomware attack knocked the Weather Channel off the air for at least 90 minutes Thursday morning, federal law enforcement are investigating the incident.A ranomware attack knocked the Weather Channel off the air for at least 90 minutes Thursday morning, federal law enforcement are investigating the incident. A cyber attack hit the Weather Channel and […]
Experts warn of security flaws in the Broadcom WiFi chipset drivers that could allow potential attackers to remotely execute arbitrary code and to trigger DoS. According to a DHS/CISA alert and a CERT/CC vulnerability note, Broadcom WiFi chipset drivers are affected by security vulnerabilities impacting multiple operating systems. The flaws could be exploited to remotely execute arbitrary […]
The developers of the Symfony PHP web application framework released updates that patch five vulnerabilities, three affecting the Drupal CMS. The development team of the Symfony PHP web application framework released security updates for five issues, three of which also affects Drupal 7 and 8. The developers of the Symfony PHP web application framework addressed […]
Facebook made the headlines once again for alleged violations of the privacy of its users, this time collecting contacts from 1.5 Million email accounts without permission. New problems for Facebook, the company collected contacts from 1.5 Million email accounts without user’permission. We recently read about an embarrassing incident involving the social network giant that asked […]
In mid-March, a suspicious Office document referencing the Ukraine elections appeared in the wild, is it related to APT28 and upcoming elections? Introduction The uncertain attribution of the Ukrainian themed malicious document discussed in our past article “APT28 and Upcoming Elections: Possible Interference Signals”, led us to a review of Sofacy’s phishing techniques to confirm or […]
Russian financially motivated threat actor TA505 used remote access Trojans (RATs) in attacks on financial entities in the United States and worldwide. Security experts at CyberInt uncovered a new campaign of a Russian financially motivated threat actor tracked as TA505. The hackers used remote access Trojans (RATs) in attacks aimed at financial entities in the […]