- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- May 19th, 2016
Two in Three Hacked Websites Hide a Backdoor
Three in five websites hide drive-by download malware
- Cyber Espionage
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- May 18th, 2016
Suckfly Cyber-Espionage Group Targets Indian Government and Private Companies
Suckfly uses OLE exploits and the Nidiran backdoor
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- May 13th, 2016
Chinese ARM Chip Vendor Left God Mode Feature in Android Kernel Code
Devs forget to delete rooting function from kernel code
- Cyber Espionage
- By Cosmin Anton
- April 29th, 2016
Tick Cyber-Espionage Group Targets Japanese Companies with Daserf Backdoors
Group remained undetected for at least ten years
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 29th, 2016
Windows GodMode Abused by Malware
Dynamer backdoor trojan uses secret Windows GodMode Easter Egg to gain persistence on infected computers
- Spyware Threats
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 27th, 2016
Cisco Accuses French Software Maker of Installing Backdoors on 12M Computers
Tuto4PC software caught behaving like common malware
- Hacking News
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 21st, 2016
Bug Hunter Hacks Facebook, Finds Someone Else's Backdoor Script
Somebody was logging Facebook employee login credentials
- Server related
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 16th, 2016
Backdoor in JBoss Java Platform Puts 3.2 Million Servers at Risk
2,100 servers are still infected, in danger of being exploited to deliver the SamSam ransomware variant
- Server related
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 15th, 2016
WordPress Sites Targeted with New Attacks Using C99 PHP Webshell
Unpatched WordPress plugins are to blame, yet again
- Virus alerts
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 13th, 2016
Linux Computers Targeted by New Backdoor and DDoS Trojan
Threat level is not high, the virus requires users to give it root privileges in order to infect their computers
- Virus alerts
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 13th, 2016
Qbot Botnet Operators Are Targeting US Public Organizations
New Qbot variant is hard to detect, targets US organizations, spreads via RIG exploit kit, and uses polymorphism
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 5th, 2016
Quanta LTE Router Beset by Over 20 Critical Security Flaws
This may be the least secure router ever made
- Apple Watch
- By Bogdan Popa
- April 3rd, 2016
Apple Expects FBI’s iPhone Hack to Leak
The company wants to patch it quickly when this happens
- Spyware Threats
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- March 30th, 2016
New Dripion Backdoor Trojan Leveraged to Spy on Taiwanese Targets
Cyber-espionage group creates new trojan from scratch after being discovered and neutralized in 2012
- Windows
- By Bogdan Popa
- March 28th, 2016
Microsoft Releases Windows 10 “Zhuangongban Edition” for Chinese Government
Windows 10 can thus be adopted by Chinese govt
- General Business
- By Bogdan Popa
- March 22nd, 2016
Snowden Used Free Software Because He Was Afraid of Backdoors in Microsoft Apps
He says he just couldn’t trust Microsoft software
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- March 21st, 2016
"Surprise" Ransomware Uses TeamViewer to Infect Victims
Another ransomware built on the EDA2 project