Collaborate Disseminate
These days, “What does this malware do?” is the question that has dozens of possible answers… here’s how and why. Continue reading The RATicate gang – implanting malware in an industry near you
Dozens of bugs in a core Windows API could enable attackers to elevate their privileges in the operating system. Continue reading ‘Zombie’ Windows win32k bug reanimated by researcher
What are you doing for Halloween this year? Just gonna set the candy bowl out on the porch and call it good? That’s a risky one, ’cause if one group of mischievous preteens cleans you out, you might get TP’d by the next one. Best to keep Halloween a tad …read more
Continue reading Pneumatic Zombie Will Blow Away Trick-or-Treaters
We take a bloodied baseball bat to Android malware, and debate the merits of a social media strike, as one of the team bites the bullet and buys a smart lock for the office.
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning… Continue reading Smashing Security #135: Zombie grannies and unintended leaks
Zombies, for the most part, remain fictional and are yet to trouble human communities. Despite the many real world calamities we face, the zombie concept remains a compelling one and the subject of many books, films, and video games. [CNLohr] was at MagStock Eight when he met [Aaron], who has developed a real world game in this vein. (YouTube, embedded below.)
[Aaron]’s game goes by the name of SpyTag, and is played by a group of people who each have a small device affixed to their wrist. Two players start off as zombies, and the rest are humans. The zombies …read more
Learn how to deal with the VPNFilter malware currently plaguing 500,000 home routers worldwide. Continue reading VPNFilter router malware – what to do? [VIDEO]
[BikerGlen] wanted to spice up his zombie containment unit (see video below) so he designed and 3D printed some very cool looking bar graphs. Apparently, you can get curved bar graph LEDs, but only if you buy a fairly large quantity. Hand soldering discrete LEDs at the perfect angle would be frustrating, but with a 3D printed jig, it was a piece of cake.
The devices use a MAX6954 LED driver, so it needs very few parts and takes commands via SPI. The chips were not cheap, but the small size and high integration sold [Glen] on it.
The rest …read more
The scam that knows your name and home address – here’s what to do Continue reading The scam that knows your name and home address – here’s what to do
Recently, global spam volumes plunged, but they’re back up, at least for now, with a huge pump-and-dump stock scam. Continue reading Global spam volume goes back up to deliver huge pump-and-dump scam
Silver lining! Close to 1 in 20 Deutsche Telekom customers avoided botnet infection because their routers got knocked offline instead. Continue reading Deutsche Telkom outage: Mirai botnet goes double-rogue
