Collaborate Disseminate
Last week, the Metasploit team announced the release of its fifth version, Metasploit 5.0. This latest update introduces multiple new features including Metasploit’s new database and automation APIs, evasion modules and libraries, expanded langua… Continue reading Metasploit 5.0 released!
FireEye, a US cybersecurity firm, have disclosed details about their DNS hijacking campaign. In their recent report, the company shared that they have identified huge DNS hijacking affecting multiple domains belonging to government, telecommunications … Continue reading FireEye’s Global DNS Hijacking Campaign suspects Iranian-based group as the prime source
Researchers from the North China Electric Power University have recently published a paper titled, ‘A Review on The Use of Deep Learning in Android Malware Detection’. Researchers highlight the fact that Android applications can not only be… Continue reading Using deep learning methods to detect malware in Android Applications
A day after Christmas, Philips Hue experienced an outage where customers were experiencing issues creating new accounts, logging in and linking their account to third parties. The company concluded that this was due to “a lot of new activations&#… Continue reading Philips Hue’s second ongoing remote connectivity outage infuriates users
A cyber-attack into one of United States’ biggest media groups, the Tribune Publishing, caused major printing and delivery disruptions for several major US newspapers over the weekend. This cyber attack affected the printing centers operated by t… Continue reading A ransomware attack causes printing and delivery disruptions for several major US newspapers
According to an Indictment report from the U.S. Justice Department released on Thursday, the Chinese hackers working on behalf of China’s Ministry of State Security breached the networks of dozens of tech companies and government departments, lar… Continue reading Justice Department’s indictment report claims Chinese hackersbreached business and government network
Last week, a group of security researchers reported that they have found a new malware that takes its instructions from code hidden in memes posted to Twitter. This method is popularly known as Steganography, a method popularly used by cybercriminals t… Continue reading Twitter memes are being used to hide malware
The Marriott’s Starwood guest database breach that occurred at the end of last month affected almost 500 million user data. According to the Marriott investigation report, the possible cause of the breach was the technology platform deployed by S… Continue reading Former Senior VP’s take on the Mariott data breach; NYT reports suspects Chinese hacking ties
Two days back, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released a staff report on Equifax’s data breach that affected 143 million U.S. consumers on September 7, 2017, which could have been “entirely preventable”. On Septem… Continue reading Equifax data breach could have been “entirely preventable”, says House oversight and government reform committee staff report
Last week, Australia’s Assistance and Access (A&A) anti-encryption law was passed through Parliament, which allows Australian police and government the powers to issue technical notices. The Assistance and Access (A&A) law requires tech c… Continue reading Australia’s Assistance and Access (A&A) bill, popularly known as the anti-encryption law, opposed by many including the tech community