Who’s Behind Wednesday’s Epic Twitter Hack?

Twitter was thrown into chaos on Wednesday after accounts for some of the world's most recognizable public figures, executives and celebrities starting tweeting out links to bitcoin scams. Twitter says the attack happened because someone tricked or coerced an employee into providing access to...

Lock and Code S1Ep4: coronavirus and responding to computer viruses with Akshay Bhargava

This week on Lock and Code, we discuss the top security headlines generated right here on Labs and around the Internet. In addition, we talk to Akshay Bhargava, Chief Product Officer of Malwarebytes, about the similarities between coronavirus and computer viruses. We discuss computer virus...

Russia Doesn't Want Bernie Sanders. It Wants Chaos

The point of Kremlin interference has always been to find democracy’s loose seams, and pull...

IoT bills and guidelines: a global response

You may not have noticed, but Internet of Things IoT rules and regulations are coming whether manufacturers want them or not. From experience, drafting up laws which are hopefully sensible and have some relevance to problems raised by current technology is a time-consuming, frustrating process...

What DevOps trends to follow (and what to ignore)

Cut through the fluff and get to the heart of which DevOps trends are worth hitching your wagon or budget to in the coming years—and which should be marked with a hazard warning. From containers to chaos engineering, here are the DevOps trends to trash and the ones you'll want to go fanboy on." T...

What Is Cyberwar? The Complete WIRED Guide

The threat of cyberwar looms over the future: a new dimension of conflict capable of leapfrogging borders and teleporting the chaos of war to civilians thousands of miles beyond its front...

Facial recognition technology: force for good or privacy threat?

All across the world, governments and corporations are looking to invest in or develop facial recognition technology. From law enforcement to marketing campaigns, facial recognition is poised to make a splashy entrance into the mainstream. Biometrics are big business, and third party contracts...

Russia Is Going to Up Its Game for the 2020 Elections

"You don't need to change votes to cause chaos," Senator Mark Warner tells WIRED in an exclusive interview...

World’s most dangerous laptop has been sold for $1.3 million

By Uzair Amir The laptop is a Samsung model now known as ‘Persistence of Chaos’ due to dangerous malware infection. A few days ago it was reported that a laptop 2008 Samsung 10.2-inch - NC10-14GB netbook infected with some of the more dangerous malware was up for sale and the highest bid received...

World’s most dangerous laptop ‘Persistence of Chaos’ is up for auction

By Ryan De Souza The 'Persistence of Chaos' laptop is infected with some of the most dangerous malware including WannaCry. A Samsung’s 11-year old Notebook called the Persistence of Chaos is dubbed the most dangerous PC in the world because it is loaded with six of the most notorious and damaging...

CHAOS Framework v3.0 - Generate Payloads And Control Remote Windows Systems

CHAOS is a PoC that allow generate payloads and control remote operating systems. Features Feature | Windows | Mac | Linux ---|---|---|--- Reverse Shell | X | X | X Download File | X | X | X Upload File | X | X | X Screenshot | X | X | X Keylogger | X | | Persistence | X | | Open URL | X | X | X...

Chinese Hacker Publishes PoC for Remote iOS 12 Jailbreak On iPhone X

Here we have great news for all iPhone Jailbreak lovers and concerning one for the rest of iPhone users. A Chinese cybersecurity researcher has today revealed technical details of critical vulnerabilities in Apple Safari web browser and iOS that could allow a remote attacker to jailbreak and...

Bitdefender BOX 2 bootstrap update_setup command execution vulnerability

Summary An exploitable command execution vulnerability exists in the recovery partition of Bitdefender BOX 2, version 2.0.1.91. The API method /api/updatesetup does not perform firmware signature checks atomically, leading to an exploitable race condition TOCTTOU that allows arbitrary execution o...

Snowden’s Attorney Urges Canada to Take in Whistleblower Helpers (Part Two)

In our second part of Threatpost’s interview of lawyer Robert Tibbo, who represented former N.S.A. contractor-turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden, Tibbo describes the present day systematic harassment of families that sheltered Snowden while he was in Hong Kong in 2013. Tibbo also describes how h...

Fake Bomb Threat Emails Demanding Bitcoins Sparked Chaos Across US, Canada

"Pay $20,000 worth of bitcoin, or a bomb will detonate in your building" A massive number of businesses, schools, government offices and individuals across the US, New Zealand and Canada on Thursday received bomb threats via emails that caused nationwide chaos, forcing widespread evacuations and...

Nationwide Bomb Threats Look Like New Spin on an Old Bitcoin Scam

Apparent bitcoin scammers caused chaos across the US Thursday, radically escalating longstanding tactics...

CHAOS Framework v2.0 - Generate Payloads And Control Remote Windows Systems

CHAOS allow generate payloads and control remote Windows systems. Disclaimer This project was created only for learning purpose. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. YOU MAY USE THIS SOFTWARE AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE USE IS COMPLETE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE END-USER. THE...

A Single-Character Message Can Crash Any Apple iPhone, iPad Or Mac

Only a single character can crash your iPhone and block access to the Messaging app in iOS as well as popular apps like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Outlook for iOS, and Gmail. First spotted by Italian Blog Mobile World, a potentially new severe bug affects not only iPhones but also a wide range...

PT-2017-4188

The Huawei HG532 router, including some customized versions, is affected by a remote code execution issue. An authenticated attacker can send malicious packets to port 37215 to launch attacks, potentially leading to the remote execution of arbitrary code. Meanwhile, researchers have discovered a...

CHAOS Framework - Generate Payloads and Control Remote Machines

CHAOS Framework allows generate payloads and controls remote machines. DISCLAIMER The use of the CHAOS Framework is COMPLETE RESPONSIBILITY of the END-USER. Developer assumes NO liability and is NOT responsible for any misuse or damage caused by this program. FEATURES Windows Remote Control...