According to Microsoft, the bug preventing machines from updating their Windows 10, was fully fixed. The company confirmed that a bad DNS configuration, offered by a number of ISPs, was to blame – “Windows Update customers were recently affected by a network infrastructure event caused by an external DNS service provider’s global outage. A software […]
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Mozilla is working on improving the users’ security – the new version 67 will contain an extended content blocking options. Now Mozilla is aiming to add Cryptojacking into the list of blocked content. Firefox is already working on this new feature and the public test for it should begin soon, since the Mozilla Firefox 67 […]
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Windows 10 Update DNS Issue Is Confirmed By Microsoft The bug with Windows Update Service was confirmed a few days after Microsoft stated to fix it. Windows Update errors were reported a lot late January, making service unable to check for updates. The suggested fix for the issue was changing the DNS settings and switching […]
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Backdoor Trojans are a type of malware which is used to gain access to victim’s devices and allow hackers to control infected machines via C&C servers, which usually leads to a complete takeover. A new malware campaign is distributing a backdoor Trojan known as SpeakUp and is currently targeting servers running six different Linux distributions […]
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It was discovered that the popular adult site Xvideos was hacked to include malicious script that records a user through their webcam. Then the user gets scam email stating that their personal data was also stolen. This is one of the first real cases of adult site hacking. The data included into scam email is […]
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New malware is used by hackers, designed to steal  cookies to the crypto currency wallets. According to Palo Alto’s Unit 42 report, the malware, known as an offshot of OSX. DarthMiner is able to steal browser cookies linked to currency exchanges and digital wallet services, passwords, usernames and credit card information saved in Chrome and […]
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While Windows 10 version 1809 is being pushed across the automatically push to all devices across the world, the serious bug that could affect certain machines was discovered. According to Microsoft, a certain number of users who deployed Microsoft’s security baseline for Windows 10 version 1809 could experience a device boot failure if UEFI secure […]
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A big iOS vulnerability was found that lets callers access the microphone and front camera of the user they are calling, without them answering the call. There is no clear source of who discovered the bug first, but numerous people confirmed it in social networks posting video demonstrations of abusing the bug. To abuse the […]
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Dubbed VeryMal, the malvertising group recently targeted Apple users in a campaign delivering payload hidden in advertisement images. The group got its name for the domain they used since August 2018 – veryield-malyst. In their recent attack the steganography was used to conceal redirect code leading to a fake Flash update. According to Confiant, the […]
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According to a McAfee Labs blog post, a new family of ransomware, nicknamed Anatova has been detected in several hundred machines across the world, despite being compiled on the 1st of January. It is mostly spread in USA, but it also appears to hit UK, France, Belgium and Germany. Anatova is prevented from working in Syria, […]
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It was found out that a few Google Play apps disguised as a useful tools (named Currency Converter and BatterySaverMobi) drop the wide-reaching banking malware, called Anubis Malware. The researcher from the Trend Micro security company, Kevin Sun stated in his blog post that the battery app was downloaded more than 5000 times, had a […]
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The STOP ransomware got a wide distribution over the last month using a method of disguising cracks as adware installers. Because of the popularity of adware installers and software cracks, STOP became one of the fastest spreading ransomware in a while. The new version of the ransomware released a few days ago appends rumba extension […]
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During a recent investigation, the team of researchers from the security firm Forcepoint Labs discovered a malware, dubbed GoodSender, that used an encrypted messenger Telegram as a platform to get the commands from the hacker. GoodSender was described by Forcepoint Labs’ team as a “fairly simple” Windows-based almost a year old malware, which uses Telegram […]
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“Collection #1” was found on MEGA cloud service Troy Hunt, security researcher and the owner of Have I Been Pawned service discovered an unprotected folder containing almost 773 millions unique email addresses and more than 21 million encrypted passwords. The data was discovered after several people reached out to Troy, pointing him to a popular […]
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