- Security
- By Bogdan Popa
- February 6th, 2020
Firmware Backdoors Discovered in Surveillance Cameras
Replacing the systems with secure cameras recommended
- Apple
- By Bogdan Popa
- January 14th, 2020
Microsoft Sides with Apple in Anti-Backdoor Fight
CEO Satya Nadella says “backdoors are a terrible idea”
- Mobile World
- By Bogdan Popa
- January 16th, 2019
Huawei Founder Denies Spying Allegations, Says No Backdoor Request Ever Made
Ren Zhengfei comments on all the spying claims
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- December 12th, 2018
Crooks Use Spoofed Critical Russian Infrastructure Domains to Mimic State APT
RedControle backdoor chosen as the group's weapon of choice
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- December 7th, 2018
'Open-Source' DarthMiner Malware Targets Adobe Pirates with Cryptominer
Also contains a disabled encrypted traffic sniffer module
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- November 27th, 2018
GreyEnergy APT Delivers Malware via Phishing Attacks and Multi-Stage Dropper
The modular backdoor can be upgraded remotely by attackers
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- November 27th, 2018
Fileless Backdoored Trojan Spreads Using Worm Living in Removable Drives
The Trojan comes with key logging and DDoSing capabilities
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- November 21st, 2018
Lazarus APT Uses Modular Backdoor to Target Financial Institutions
WannaCry makers also recently used Fastcash to empty ATMs
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- November 5th, 2018
Inception Group Uses POWERSHOWER Backdoor in Two-Stage Spear Phishing Attacks
Backdoor uses anti-forensics techniques to hinder analysis
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 12th, 2018
Almost 12K MikroTik Routers Are Hunting Around for Cryptojacking Opportunities
Infected routers get backdoored and set up as cryptojackers
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- September 18th, 2018
Paste Site Used as Hosting Service for FilesMan Backdoor
The malicious code allows attackers to reinfect websites
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- September 17th, 2018
Critical Peekaboo Vulnerability Gives Attackers Access to CCTV Cameras
NUUO's Video Recorder Software can be exploited remotely using a stack buffer overflow and a debug code backdoor
- Security
- By Bogdan Popa
- August 29th, 2018
Telegram Says They’ll Help Everyone Catch Terrorists, Except for Russia
Russia banned Telegram earlier this year
- Security
- By Bogdan Popa
- May 23rd, 2018
FBI Admits It Inflated the Number of iPhones It Can’t Hack
The Bureau says there are fewer protected iPhones
- Apple
- By Bogdan Popa
- March 27th, 2018
Apple Again Rejects Idea of iPhone Backdoor
FBI and US government seeking access to all devices
- Security
- By Bogdan Popa
- January 10th, 2018
FBI Says It Wants To (But Can’t) Hack 8,000 Devices
And that’s why a backdoor is needed, Director Wray says
- Security
- By Bogdan Popa
- October 31st, 2017
BlackBerry Ready to Hack Its Users If the Government Wants It To
Company CEO says they’d try to break encryption if needed