Hackuna - The First Mobile App to Track Hackers

Cryptors, a cyber security company, invented a mobile app called HACKUNA Anti-Hack that can block and detect these WiFi hackers. The exciting part here is, you can also track the hackers within the area. It will give you all the details you need to find the hacker within the area or to report it ...

How to Respond to a Cyber Attack on Your Business

By Ryan De Souza Cyber security affects businesses of all sizes, and in every industry. Today it is a board-level agenda item, which has been placed at number three on the Lloyds Risk Register 2013. When it comes to dealing with a cyber attack, every single person involved with the business shoul...

Threat Source (April 25)

Newsletter compiled by Jonathan Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. If you haven’t yet, there’s still time to register for this year’s Talos Threat Research Summit — our second annual conference by...

Dutch NCSC Releases Updated TLS Guidelines

The Dutch National Cyber Security Centre NCSC has published an update to their Transport Layer Security TLS protocol guidelines, which aim to improve TLS configuration security. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users and administrators to review the Dutch NCSC ...

Threat Source (April 4)

Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. If you haven’t yet, there’s still time to register for this year’s Talos Threat Research Summit — our second annual conference by defenders, for defenders. This year’s Summ...

Churning Out Machine Learning Models: Handling Changes in Model Predictions

Introduction Machine learning ML is playing an increasingly important role in cyber security. Here at FireEye, we employ ML for a variety of tasks such as: antivirus, malicious PowerShell detection, and correlating threat actor behavior. While many people think that a data scientist’s job is...

Free Cynet Threat Assessment for Mid-sized and Large Organizations

If you cannot see what’s happening in your network, your ability to make smart security decisions will suffer. Many vendors offer threat assessment options, but they usually require an investment of time and resources. One vendor out there – Cynet – is offering a no-cost threat assessment to...

Cynet Offers Free Threat Assessment for Mid-Sized and Large Organizations

Visibility into an environment attack surface is the fundamental cornerstone to sound security decision making. However, the standard process of 3rd party threat assessment as practiced today is both time consuming and expensive. Cynet changes the rules of the game with a free threat assessment...

Your next Game of Thrones download can be a malware – Here’s why

By Uzair Amir Game of Thrones the most Exploited Series by Hackers and Scammers in 2018- Research reveals. Cybercriminals never miss out on an opportunity to exploit any potentially fruitful event and now that the final season of Game of Thrones is about to be released, they are trying to use it...

Canadian Police Raid ‘Orcus RAT’ Author

Canadian police last week raided the residence of a Toronto software developer behind “Orcus RAT,” a product that’s been marketed on underground forums and used in countless malware attacks since its creation in 2015. Its author maintains Orcus is a legitimate Remote Administration Tool that is...

CVE-2019-7609

Kibana versions before 5.6.15 and 6.6.1 contain an arbitrary code execution flaw in the Timelion visualizer. An attacker with access to the Timelion application could send a request that will attempt to execute javascript code. This could possibly lead to an attacker executing arbitrary commands...

ICE HRM 23.0 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

ICE HRM 23.0 - Multiple Vulnerabilities =========================================================================================== Exploit Title: ICE HRM - ’ob’ SQL Inj. Dork: N/A Date: 14-03-2019 Exploit Author: Mehmet EMIROGLU Vendor Homepage: http://icehrm.org Software Link:...

Hackers Favorite CoinHive Cryptocurrency Mining Service Shutting Down

Coinhive, a notorious in-browser cryptocurrency mining service popular among cybercriminals, has announced that it will discontinue its services on March 8, 2019. Regular readers of The Hacker News already know how Coinhive's service helped cyber criminals earn hundreds of thousands of dollars by...

These iOS apps have been secretly recording your screen activities

By Waqas Apple has vowed to remove iOS apps that record screen data. User data recording has become an issue of concern among the cyber-security community as the data is used to launch a variety of scams, identify customer demographics, and targeted marketing gimmicks. Mobile phone manufacturers...

CISA Awareness Briefing on Chinese Malicious Cyber Activity

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA will conduct a series of virtual awareness briefings on Chinese malicious cyber activity targeting managed service providers MSPs. Briefings will be held from 1–2 p.m. ET on the dates listed below: Wednesday, February 6 Friday, February 22...

Meet Aztarna, a tool to find vulnerable Internet connected robots

By Waqas The company behind Aztarna is Alias Robotics, a cyber-security startup. Manufacturers and users of IoT robots should breathe a sigh of relief that the cyber-security startup Alias Robotics has developed a robot scanning tool that can track any robot connected to the internet and powered ...

CVE-2018-2269

CVE-2018-2269 is rejected and not used as an active vulnerability entry.

This Week in Security News: Adware and Ransomware

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about an adware that disguised itself as different apps and monitors mobile devices. Also, learn more about the different ransomware...

Newsmaker Interview: Bruce Schneier on Physical Cyber Threats

Attacks on physical devices and infrastructure offer a new target for cyber crime, a new opportunity for espionage and even a few front in cyber war. Rather than exploit computers and their applications, the Internet of Things allows malicious actors to go after a whole new category of devices,...

MISP - Malware Information Sharing Platform and Threat Sharing

The objective of MISP is to foster the sharing of structured information within the security community and abroad. MISP provides functionalities to support the exchange of information but also the consumption of the information by Network Intrusion Detection System NIDS, LIDS but also log analysi...