Collaborate Disseminate
The threat of ransomware is becoming more prevalent and severe as attackers’ focus has now moved beyond computers to smartphones and other Internet-connected smart devices.
In its latest research, security researchers at cybersecurity firm CheckPoint … Continue reading Canon DSLR Cameras Can Be Hacked With Ransomware Remotely
Apple has just updated the rules of its bug bounty program by announcing a few major changes during a briefing at the annual Black Hat security conference yesterday.
One of the most attractive updates is…
Apple has enormously increased the maximum re… Continue reading Apple will now pay hackers up to $1 million for reporting vulnerabilities
Facebook has filed a lawsuit against two shady Android app developers accused of making illegal money by hijacking users’ smartphones to fraudulently click on Facebook ads.
According to Facebook, Hong Kong-based ‘LionMobi’ and Singapore-based ‘JediMob… Continue reading Facebook Sues Two Android App Developers for Click Injection Fraud
Remember the Reverse RDP Attack?
Earlier this year, researchers disclosed clipboard hijacking and path-traversal issues in Microsoft’s Windows built-in RDP client that could allow a malicious RDP server to compromise a client computer, reversely.
(Yo… Continue reading Reverse RDP Attack Also Enables Guest-to-Host Escape in Microsoft Hyper-V
A new variant of the Spectre (Variant 1) side-channel vulnerability has been discovered that affects all modern Intel CPUs, and probably some AMD processors as well, which leverage speculative execution for high performance, Microsoft and Red Hat warne… Continue reading SWAPGS Attack — New Speculative Execution Flaw Affects All Modern Intel CPUs
A series of critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in Qualcomm chipsets that could allow hackers to compromise Android devices remotely just by sending malicious packets over-the-air with no user interaction.
Discovered by security researchers … Continue reading New Flaws in Qualcomm Chips Expose Millions of Android Devices to Hacking
Cisco Systems has agreed to pay $8.6 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the company of knowingly selling video surveillance system containing severe security vulnerabilities to the U.S. federal and state government agencies.
It’s believed to be … Continue reading Cisco ‘Knowingly’ Sold Hackable Video Surveillance System to U.S. Government
FaceApp—the AI-powered photo-morphing app that recently gone viral for its age filter but hit the headlines for its controversial privacy policy—has been found collecting the list of your Facebook friends for no reason.
The Russian-made FaceApp has be… Continue reading Viral FaceApp Unnecessarily Requests Access to Users’ Facebook Friends List
Yesterday, some residents of Johannesburg, the largest city in South Africa, were left without electricity after the city’s power company got attacked by a ransomware virus.
City Power, the company responsible for powering South Africa’s financial cap… Continue reading Ransomware Attack Caused Power Outages in the Biggest South African City
The fileless code injection technique called Process Doppelgänging is actively being used by not just one or two but a large number of malware families in the wild, a new report shared with The Hacker News revealed.
Discovered in late 2017, Process Do… Continue reading Popular Malware Families Using ‘Process Doppelgänging’ to Evade Detection