Author Archives: Lucian Constantin

Attackers have started to use Windows and Android malware to hack into embedded devices, dispelling the widely held belief that if such devices are not directly exposed to the Internet they’re less vulnerable.Researchers from Russian antivirus vendo… Continue reading Windows Trojan hacks into embedded devices to install Mirai→

Attackers have started to use Windows and Android malware to hack into embedded devices, dispelling the widely held belief that if such devices are not directly exposed to the Internet they’re less vulnerable.Researchers from Russian antivirus vendo… Continue reading Windows Trojan hacks into embedded devices to install Mirai→

A wave of attacks that have recently affected banks and other enterprises used open-source penetration testing tools loaded directly into memory instead of traditional malware, making their detection much harder.Researchers from antivirus vendor Kas… Continue reading Hard-to-detect fileless attacks target banks, other organizations→

A wave of attacks that have recently affected banks and other enterprises used open-source penetration testing tools loaded directly into memory instead of traditional malware, making their detection much harder.Researchers from antivirus vendor Kas… Continue reading Hard-to-detect fileless attacks target banks, other organizations→

The discovery of malware on computers and servers of several Polish banks has put the country’s financial sector on alert over potential compromises.Polish media reported last week that the IT security teams at many Polish banks have been busy recen… Continue reading Polish banks on alert after mystery malware found on computers→

The discovery of malware on computers and servers of several Polish banks has put the country’s financial sector on alert over potential compromises.Polish media reported last week that the IT security teams at many Polish banks have been busy recen… Continue reading Polish banks on alert after mystery malware found on computers→

After aggressively using JavaScript email attachments to distribute malware for the past year, attackers are now switching to less suspicious file types to trick users.Last week, researchers from the Microsoft Malware Protection Center warned about … Continue reading Malware distributors are switching to less suspicious file types→

After aggressively using JavaScript email attachments to distribute malware for the past year, attackers are now switching to less suspicious file types to trick users.Last week, researchers from the Microsoft Malware Protection Center warned about … Continue reading Malware distributors are switching to less suspicious file types→

Following recent research that showed many printer models are vulnerable to attacks, a hacker decided to prove the point and forced thousands of publicly exposed printers to spew out rogue messages.
The messages included ASCII art depicting robots … Continue reading Hacker hijacks thousands of publicly exposed printers to warn owners→

Following recent research that showed many printer models are vulnerable to attacks, a hacker decided to prove the point and forced thousands of publicly exposed printers to spew out rogue messages.
The messages included ASCII art depicting robots … Continue reading Hacker hijacks thousands of publicly exposed printers to warn owners→