Collaborate Disseminate
Another day, another revelation of a critical unpatched zero-day vulnerability, this time in the world’s most widely used mobile operating system, Android.
What’s more? The Android zero-day vulnerability has also been found to be exploited in the wild… Continue reading New 0-Day Flaw Affecting Most Android Phones Being Exploited in the Wild
Cases of document-based malware are steadily rising. 59 percent of all malicious files detected in the first quarter of 2019 were contained in documents.
Due to how work is done in today’s offices and workplaces, companies are among those commonly aff… Continue reading How SMBs Can Mitigate the Growing Risk of File-based Attacks
Looking for ways to unlock and read the content of an encrypted PDF without knowing the password?
Well, that’s now possible, sort of—thanks to a novel set of attacking techniques that could allow attackers to access the entire content of a password-pr… Continue reading Researchers Find New Hack to Read Content Of Password Protected PDF Files
The infamous eGobbler hacking group that surfaced online earlier this year with massive malvertising campaigns has now been caught running a new campaign exploiting two browser vulnerabilities to show intrusive pop-up ads and forcefully redirect users … Continue reading Over A Billion Malicious Ad Impressions Exploit WebKit Flaw to Target Apple Users
Remember the Simjacker vulnerability?
Earlier this month, we reported about a critical unpatched weakness in a wide range of SIM cards, which an unnamed surveillance company has actively been exploiting in the wild to remotely compromise targeted mobi… Continue reading More SIM Cards Vulnerable to Simjacker Attack Than Previously Disclosed
An iOS hacker and cybersecurity researcher today publicly released what he claimed to be a “permanent unpatchable bootrom exploit,” in other words, an epic jailbreak that works on all iOS devices ranging from iPhone 4s (A5 chip) to iPhone 8 and iPhone … Continue reading Hacker Releases ‘Unpatchable’ Jailbreak For All iOS Devices, iPhone 4s to iPhone X
Malware or computer virus can infect your computer in several different ways, but one of the most common methods of its delivery is through malicious file attachments over emails that execute the malware when you open them.
Therefore, to protect its u… Continue reading Outlook for Web Bans 38 More File Extensions in Email Attachments
Following the release of iOS 13 and iPadOS earlier this week, Apple has issued an advisory warning iPhone and iPad users of an unpatched security bug impacting third-party keyboard apps.
On iOS, third-party keyboard extensions can run entirely standal… Continue reading iOS 13 Bug Lets 3rd-Party Keyboards Gain ‘Full Access’ — Even When You Deny
A team of Canadian cybersecurity researchers has uncovered a sophisticated and targeted mobile hacking campaign that is targeting high-profile members of various Tibetan groups with one-click exploits for iOS and Android devices.
Dubbed Poison Carp by… Continue reading 1-Click iPhone and Android Exploits Target Tibetan Users via WhatsApp
Continuing on from my previous post…Once I left active duty, one of my first jobs was in an information security role, and I was doing a fair bit of “war dialing”, which was fun. The main programs we used at the time were THC Scan and Tone Loc, but i… Continue reading A Brief History of DFIR Time, pt II