Surprisingly stealthy botnet has been targeting users for years
ESET researchers have unearthed a botnet of some 500,000 infected machines engaged mostly in ad-related fraud by using malicious Chrome extensions, but also Facebook fraud and …
Zeljka Zorz
Dark web Hansa Market shut down after being run for a month by law enforcement
Just a few short weeks after dark web market Alpha Bay was shut down, Hansa Market is now also shuttered. After Alpha Bay’s shutdown, many users flocked to Hansa Market, …
Apple patches critical Broadpwn vulnerability in its various OSes
Apple has released security updates for iOS, macOS (Sierra, El Capitan, and Yosemite), Safari, iCloud, iTunes, watchOS and tvOS. As per usual, the same fixed Webkit flaws …
Creating the security operations center of the future with Siemplify
Security operations teams are engaged in a constant struggle to keep up with the volume of security alerts, maintain the right skills, and manage incident response processes. …
Hacker grabs $30 million in ether through Parity multisig wallet flaw
Another day, another cryptocurrency heist: this time, the attacker has stolen some $30 million in ether (ETH – value token of the Ethereum blockchain) from a number of …
Exploitable gSOAP flaw exposes thousands of IoT devices to attack
Researchers have unearthed a serious vulnerability in gSOAP, an open source, third-party code library used by thousands of IoT by many different manufacturers. Senrio Labs …
Google introduces new protections to prevent app-based account compromise
Google has implemented new protections that should considerably reduce the risk of potentially malicious apps gaining control of users’ Google account. There can be no …
Attackers are taking over NAS devices via SambaCry flaw
A Samba remote code execution flaw patched in May is being exploited to compromise IoT devices running on different architectures (MIPS, ARM, PowerPC, etc.), Trend Micro …
Think twice before buying a smart toy for your child
For a while now, security researchers have been warning about the security and privacy dangers of many popular “smart” toys. While consumer protection …
Dow Jones customer data exposed due to cloud misconfiguration
US-based publishing and financial information firm Dow Jones & Company is the latest casualty of a cloud database misconfiguration error. In late May, UpGuard’s …
