Collaborate Disseminate
Criminals are exploiting users’ natural sense of curiosity with native advertisements to serve up tech support scam pages.
David Bisson reports.
Continue reading Taboola ads exploited to serve up tech support scams
A banking trojan campaign is using commercial packing platforms to evade analysis and thereby successfully infect unsuspecting users.
David Bisson reports.
Continue reading Banking trojan campaign uses commercial packers to target Brazilian users
A woman claims that she and her family were spied upon after an unknown party hacked their way into a “smart” baby monitor.
David Bisson reports.
Continue reading Woman says hacker spied on her through the baby monitor
Researchers have reported an increase in activity for a Facebook-hijacking threat known as Faceliker.
David Bisson reports.
Continue reading Facebook-hijacking Faceliker malware is on the rise
A security researcher has disclosed a password exfiltration zero-day that affects macOS version 10.13 (aka “High Sierra”) and earlier.
David Bisson reports.
Continue reading Keychain-busting zero-day disclosed hours before release of macOS High Sierra
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has revealed that attackers might have used data they stole in a security breach for illicit insider trading.
David Bisson reports.
Continue reading SEC reveals hackers might have used stolen data for insider trading
More than three dozen public schools and other educational institutions canceled classes after receiving threats from a “cyber terrorist.”
David Bisson reports.
Continue reading More than three dozen schools call off classes after ‘cyber terrorist’ threat
Carelessness is believed to have exposed access credentials and other critical information assets owned by media giant Viacom Inc, leaving them viewable by anyone with an internet connection.
David Bisson reports.
Continue reading Viacom cloud config goof exposed Paramount Pictures, Comedy Central, MTV, and more
Carelessness is believed to have exposed access credentials and other critical information assets owned by media giant Viacom Inc, leaving them viewable by anyone with an internet connection.
David Bisson reports.
Continue reading Viacom cloud config goof exposed Paramount Pictures, Comedy Central, MTV, and more
The Pirate Bay surprised many of its users when it quietly added a JavaScript-based cryptocurrency miner to its website.
David Bisson reports.
Continue reading The Pirate Bay website quietly runs a cryptocurrency miner on visitors’ PCs, gobbling up CPU cycles