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Hijacking drones with malware

A recent incident at the White House showed that small aerial vehicles (drones) present a specific security problem. While in this particular case the actual danger turned out …

Evidence shows Regin spy malware is used by Five Eyes intelligence

Kaspersky Lab researchers who have recently analyzed a copy of the malicious QWERTY module have discovered that the malware is identical in functionality to a Regin malware …

Why Google won’t be updating pre-KitKat WebKit anymore

Two weeks ago, Rapid 7 researchers discovered that Google will no longer be providing security patches for WebView used in pre-KitKat (v4.4) Android versions, meaning that …

APT gear: Custom Windows task hiding tool

Cyber attackers, especially persistent ones, use a variety of tools to break into target systems, assure their continuing presence in them and hide their actions, and …

What makes phishing emails so successful?

According to the results of a study performed by researchers from the University at Buffalo, “information-rich” emails that alter the recipients’ cognitive …

VPN services blocked by China’s Great Firewall

A number of popular VPN services are the latest target of China’s Great Firewall, including Astrill, StrongVPN and Golden Frog’s VyprVPN. Virtual Private Networks …

Police ransomware scam drives UK teen to suicide

For most people, a ransomware infection is not a huge tragedy: they pay the bogus fine (or not), and ultimately get their computer back either because the criminals unlock it …

Adobe updates Flash Player again, plugs 0-day exploited by Angler

Adobe made good on its promise to make available by this week a fix for the recently discovered critical zero-day Flash Player vulnerability (CVE-2015-0311) preyed on by the …

Google discloses three OS X 0-days

In the past few days, Google has released information about and proof-of-concept exploit code for three separate zero-day vulnerabilities affecting Apple’s OS X …

Journalist Barrett Brown sentenced to 63 months

Barrett Brown, the journalist that at one time claimed to be a spokesman for the hacktivist collective Anonymous, has been handed a 63-months-long prison sentence and has been …

Critical Flash Player hole plugged, another still unpatched and exploited

Adobe has released an out-of-band update for Flash Player, which fixes a security flaw (CVE-2015-0310) that could be used to circumvent memory randomization mitigations on the …

Click-fraud malware brings thousands of dollars to YouTube scammers

A malware delivery campaign aimed at making victims’ computers surreptitiously view YouTube videos and, consequently, artificially inflate their popularity so that …

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