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The Chalubo botnet is a recently discovered malware which has been found to contain advanced features from other threats and being used for DoS (denial-of-service) attack campaigns. At the moment several attacks have been sighted. Our article gives an … Continue reading Newly Discovered Chalubo Botnet Used as a DoS Weapon
The FreeRTOS operating system widely used by IoT devices can be abused by computer hackers to take down the instances. A team of security researchers recently announced that it contains many bugs allowing hackers numerous pathways to the target IoT…R… Continue reading A Multitude of Freertos Security Bugs Allow Hackers to Abuse Iot Devices
A security researcher has discovered a jQuery File Upload Plugin Zero-Day Vulnerability that allows hackers to abuse thousands of sites. The flaw was announced to the public alongside the fact that this plugin as adopted by many services and platforms…. Continue reading CVE-2018-9206: jQuery File Upload Plugin Zero-Day Vulnerability Affects Thousands of Sites
Unknown computer hackers have breached the HealthCare.gov sign-up system and hijacked the personal data of about 75 000 users. This site hosted the service called Federally Facilitated Exchanges (FFE) and is used for healthcare insurance use. An offici… Continue reading Healthcare.Gov Breached, 75 000 Users Affected by Data Theft
A security researcher has announced the discovery of a critical vulnerability in two of the most popular media players — MPlayer and VLC. The issue was found in the LIVE555 media streaming library which is used in both applications and…Read mor… Continue reading CVE-2018-4013: MPlayer and VLC Both Affected by a Critical Vulnerability
iOS and macOS were long believed invincible but facts and statistics reveal another truth. According to a brand new research, there is a near 400% increase in cryptomining attacks against iPhones. This upsurge has been registered in the last two…Read… Continue reading iPhones Increasingly Targeted by Cryptomining Malware
Three of the biggest tech companies, Apple, Microsoft, and Google, have made a cornerstone announcement regarding the support for TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.0. Mozilla is also “in” on this change. In a coordinated effort, the companies shared their … Continue reading Apple, Microsoft, and Google Drop Support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1
Security researchers from Anomali and Intel 471 made a troublesome discovery regarding personally identifiable information belonging to US residents. The researchers came across Dark Web communications that offered “a large quantity of voter data… Continue reading 35 Million U.S. Voter Records for Sale on the Dark Web
Security researchers have uncovered a new malicious attack that involves well-known exploits with the purpose to circumvent security solutions. The campaign is spreading information stealers, or pieces of sophisticated spyware. More specifically, attac… Continue reading New Malicious Campaign Evades AV Detection, Downloads Spyware
Did you know that nearly 80% of all websites run on PHP? More particularly, “PHP is used by 78.9% of all the websites whose server-side programming language we know”, as revealed by W3Techs statistics. This fact alone makes PHP security…R… Continue reading Support for PHP 5.6.x Ends in 2 Months, Millions of Websites at Risk