- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 2nd, 2016
Compromised WordPress Sites Hijacked Over and Over Again to Push Malware
Attacker is using an unknown backdoor to reinfect websites
- Virus alerts
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 29th, 2016
Linux Trojan That Takes Screenshots and Records Audio Has a Windows Brother
A Mac OS X version is also theoretically possible
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 26th, 2016
US Agencies Have 2 Weeks to Report If They Were Affected by the Juniper Backdoor
US Government starts nationwide Juniper equipment audit
- Virus alerts
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 25th, 2016
Simple Yet Efficient Linux Backdoor Trojan Discovered
Linux.BackDoor.Xunpes trojan lets cyber-crooks take control and execute commands on your Linux machine
- General Business
- By Bogdan Popa
- January 22nd, 2016
AT&T CEO Claims Microsoft, Apple Shouldn’t Have a Word to Say in US Backdoor Debate
The Congress should be the one to decide, he says
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 22nd, 2016
Chinese Group Trying to Exploit Old Fortinet SSH Backdoor
Scans for Fortinet devices have intensified
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 22nd, 2016
British Government Has Already Created a Data Encryption Protocol Complete with a Backdoor
GCHQ insists on shooting itself in the foot with backdoored VoIP encryption protocol, developed in-house by CESG
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 21st, 2016
Fraud Campaign Uses RATs Against Companies in US, UK, and India
Crooks were using Backdoor.Breut and Trojan.Nancrat RATs
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 21st, 2016
Backdoor Account Found on Devices Used by White House, US Military
The backdoor accounts were named Black Widow and Batman
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 14th, 2016
Cisco Removes Backdoor from Some of Its Access Points
After Juniper and Fortinet, Cisco now also joins the "we use hardcoded credentials in our firmware" club
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 12th, 2016
SSH Backdoor Identified in Fortinet Firewalls
Fortinet pulls a Juniper on its customers
- Online Surveillance
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 8th, 2016
Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Desperately Urge UK to Reconsider Encryption Backdoors
Five Silicon Valley tech companies would like a little bit more clarity in the words used for UK's IPB
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- December 23rd, 2015
Hackers Are Already Using the Secret Juniper Firewall Backdoor in Their Attacks
Honeypot experiment shows growing interest from attackers in vulnerable Juniper NetScreen firewall equipment
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- December 22nd, 2015
Cisco Starts Company-Wide Code Audit to Search for Hidden Backdoors
Cisco adopts a "better safe than sorry" mentality, announces that it will start looking for backdoors on its own
- Security Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- December 21st, 2015
Security Firm Discovers Backdoor Password for Juniper ScreenOS Devices
Password string was made to look like debug code
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- December 16th, 2015
FireEye Security Devices Provide Attackers with Backdoor into Corporate Networks
FireEye security equipment can be compromised, Google finds
- Virus alerts
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- December 12th, 2015
Latentbot Is the Next Step in Evolution for Stealthy Backdoors
Backdoor bot manages to remain hidden for two years