Collaborate Disseminate
Recently we reported about a critical code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Word that was being exploited in the wild by cyber criminal groups to distribute malware like Dridex banking trojans and Latentbot.
Now, it turns out that the same previou… Continue reading Not Just Criminals, But Governments Were Also Using MS Word 0-Day Exploit
Can you imagine your world without the Internet?
I know it’s hard to imagine your life without the Internet, and the same was the case of two Ohio prisoners who built personal computers from parts from e-waste, hid them in the ceiling, and connected t… Continue reading Prison Inmates Built PCs from e-Waste and Connected Online Using Prison Network
Besides a previously undisclosed code-execution flaw in Microsoft Word, the tech giant patches two more zero-day vulnerabilities that attackers had been exploiting in the wild for months, as part of this month’s Patch Tuesday.
In total, Microsoft patc… Continue reading Microsoft Issues Patches for Actively Exploited Critical Vulnerabilities
Do you know how many kinds of sensors your smartphone has inbuilt? And what data they gather about your physical and digital activities?
An average smartphone these days is packed with a wide array of sensors such as GPS, Camera, microphone, accelerom… Continue reading Hackers Can Steal Your Passwords Just by Monitoring SmartPhone Sensors
If you are a regular reader of The Hacker News, you might be aware of an ongoing cyber attack — detected in the wild by McAfee and FireEye — that silently installs malware on fully-patched computers by exploiting an unpatched Microsoft Word vulnerability in all current versions of Microsoft Office.
Now, according to security firm Proofpoint, the operators of the Dridex malware started
Continue reading Unpatched Microsoft Word Flaw is Being Used to Spread Dridex Banking Trojan
Security researchers have confirmed that the alleged CIA hacking tools recently exposed by WikiLeaks have been used against at least 40 governments and private organizations across 16 countries.
Since March, as part of its “Vault 7” series, Wikileaks … Continue reading Symantec Connects 40 Cyber Attacks to CIA Hacking Tools Exposed by Wikileaks
It’s 2017, and opening a simple MS Word file could compromise your system.
Security researchers are warning of a new in-the-wild attack that silently installs malware on fully-patched computers by exploiting a serious — and yet unpatched — zero-day vulnerability in all current versions of Microsoft Office.
The Microsoft Office zero-day attack, uncovered by researchers from security firms
Continue reading Beware of an Unpatched Microsoft Word 0-Day Flaw being Exploited in the Wild
As part of its Vault 7 series of leaked documents, whistleblowing website WikiLeaks today released a new cache of 27 documents allegedly belonged to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Named Grasshopper, the latest batch reveals a CLI-based fram… Continue reading WikiLeaks Reveals CIA’s Grasshopper Windows Hacking Framework
Researchers have uncovered a Chinese cyber-espionage against the United States ahead of the trade summit on Thursday between US President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping.
According to a new report published today by Fidelis Cybersecurity… Continue reading U.S. Trade Group Hacked by Chinese Hackers ahead of Trump-Xi Trade Summit
Sir Tim Berners-Lee — the inventor of the World Wide Web — has won this year’s A.M. Turing Award, which is frequently described as the “Nobel Prize of Computing,” by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Turing Award is named after Alan Mathison Turing, the British mathematician and computer scientist who was a key contributor to the Allied cryptanalysis of German Enigma cipher and
Continue reading Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the Web, Wins $1 Million Turing Award 2016