Researchers claim they can stop malware before it executes. Black Hat EndGame vulnerability researchers Cody Pierce, Matt Spisak, and Kenneth Fitch have created a defence framework to protect against deeper modernRead More →
While many email providers, clients, and anti-spam engines have become adept at detecting spam, malicious messages sent via high-profile, legitimate providers are much harder to catch. Threat actors continue toRead More →
A new trojan potentially threatens as many as 2.8 million Android users with unwanted mobile advertisements. On 29 July, researchers at the Russian computer security firm Doctor Web published anRead More →
By mid-July 2016, the Afraidgate campaign stopped distributing CryptXXX ransomware. It is now distributing the “.zepto” variant of Locky. Afraidgate has been using Neutrino exploit kit (EK) to distribute malwareRead More →
Even 2FA can run up against limitations—like this Find My iPhone attack. As a graduate student studying cryptography, security and privacy (CrySP), software engineeringand human-computer interaction, I’ve learned a thing or twoRead More →
Website is currently down, nobody knowns who hacked it. Between July 7 and July 26, the date of the last reported hack, the website of the Harrison city council, townofharrison.com, hasRead More →
X-Tunnel is roughly based on XTunnel PortMap. One of the malware variants used to infiltrate and hack the Democratic National Committee (DNC) back in April 2016 is based on aRead More →
Our team recently discovered a new Android Trojan called SpyNote which facilitates remote spying. The builder, which creates new versions of the malware, recently leaked on several malware discussion forums.Read More →
TIM BRYANT AND Brian Knudson spent two years preparing for the Cyber Grand Challenge, a $55 million hacking contest cooked up by Darpa, the visionary research operation inside the U.S.Read More →
A new wave of Locky malware emails have been making the rounds since yesterday — July 20, 2016 — with a critical new development, whereby the Windows executable is nowRead More →
