Microsoft Releases April 2019 Security Updates — Two Flaws Under Active Attack

Microsoft today released its April 2019 software updates to address a total of 74 CVE-listed vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other products, 13 of which are rated critical and rest are rated Important in severity. April 2019 security updates address flaws in Windows OS,...

Hackers claims to steal 6 million Israeli voters data

By Carolina According to a report from Haaretz, a group of hackers has claimed to have compromised the database of Israeli voters on April 6, just a few days before the Knesset election, which is the name of Israel’s parliamentary or legislative election that will be held on April 9. The group ha...

Hackers Could Turn Pre-Installed Antivirus App on Xiaomi Phones Into Malware

What could be worse than this, if the software that's meant to protect your devices leave backdoors open for hackers or turn into malware? Researchers today revealed that a security app that comes pre-installed on more than 150 million devices manufactured by Xiaomi, China's biggest and world's 4...

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...

Toyota data breach: Hackers steal 3.1 million customers’ data

By Waqas Toyota suffers third consecutive data breach within a few weeks. World famous Japanese automobile maker Toyota has become the target of a third data breach only within two months’ time. In the latest data breach, it is reported that the company lost data of 3.1 million customers...

Google Play Store’s Malware Problem, and More Security News This Week

Plus, Russia cracks down on VPNs, Microsoft cracks down on Iranian hackers, and more of the week's top security news...

Hackers Steal $19 Million From Bithumb Cryptocurrency Exchange

Hackers yesterday stole nearly $19 million worth of cryptocurrency from Bithumb, the South Korea-based popular cryptocurrency exchange admitted today. According to Primitive Ventures' Dovey Wan, who first broke the information on social media, hackers managed to compromise a number of Bithumb's h...

Hackers using hacked WordPress & Joomla sites to drop malware

By Waqas Apparently, the malware attack is carried out by Russian speaking hackers. The IT security researchers at Zscaler have discovered a sophisticated malware campaign targeting websites based on WordPress and Joomla content management system CMS. The campaign works in such a way that hackers...

Commando VM — Turn Your Windows Computer Into A Hacking Machine

FireEye today released Commando VM, which according to the company, is a "first of its kind Windows-based security distribution for penetration testing and red teaming." When it comes to the best-operating systems for hackers, Kali Linux is always the first choice for penetration testers and...

Microsoft seizes 99 websites used by Iranian hackers for phishing attacks

By Uzair Amir Microsoft has announced that it has seized some key websites that Iranian hackers used for stealing sensitive information from unsuspecting users in the US as well as launching cyber attacks. Reportedly, 99 websites have been seized by Microsoft of an Iranian hacker group that is...

Firefox and Edge Fall to Hackers on Day Two of Pwn2Own

Hackers took down the Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge browsers on Thursday at Pwn2Own, the annual hacking conference held in tandem with CanSecWest, as the competition continued for a second day. The dynamic hacking duo of Amat Cama and Richard Zhu, which make up team Fluoroacetate, had anothe...

Medtronic defibrillators vulnerable to life threatening cyber attacks

By Waqas Defibrillators are electronic devices manufactured to save the lives of people with life-threatening heart conditions such as Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy HCM. But now, according to the Department of Homeland Security DHS, Medtronic defibrillators are vulnerable to cyber attacks allowing...

Panic after hackers take control of emergency tornado alarms in Texas

By Waqas On March 12th, at around 2:30 a.m., residents of two Texas towns panicked after hearing tornado alarm that went off until 4:00 a.m. They were disturbed because the alarms repeatedly went on and off for about one and a half hours, thanks to hackers - Finally, related authorities were able...

TAU Threat Intelligence Notification: Operation SharpShooter

Operation Sharpshooter, leverages an embedded shellcode as an in-memory implant to download and retrieve a second-stage implant, which is known as Rising Sun. Rising Sun uses source code from the Duuzer backdoor that has been used in a past campaign of Lazarus group. This newly discovered campaig...

A week in security (March 11 – 17)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked at the Lazarus group in our series about APT groups, we discussed the introduction of Payment Service Directive 2 PSD2 in the EU, we tackled Google’s Nest fiasco, and the launch of Mozilla's Firefox Send. In addition, we gave you an overview of the...

Hackers are using 19-year-old WinRAR bug to install nasty malware

By Waqas By using the bug, hackers are desperately dropping persistent malware through generic trojan on systems using the old version of WinRar. McAfee security firm’s researcher Craig Schmugar has identified that the world famous and commonly used compression software WinRar is plagued with cod...

This Week in Security News: Security Vulnerabilities

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 what critical approaches can protect your enterprise business from software vulnerabilities. Also, learn about vulnerabilities in IoT...

Citrix Data Breach – Iranian Hackers Stole 6TB of Sensitive Data

Popular enterprise software companyCitrix that provides services to the U.S. military, the FBI, many U.S. corporations, and various U.S. government agencies disclosed last weekend a massive data breach of its internal network by "international cyber criminals." Citrix said it was warned by the FB...

Citrix Data Breach – Iranian Hackers Stole 6TB of Sensitive Data

Popular enterprise software company Citrix that provides services to the U.S. military, the FBI, many U.S. corporations, and various U.S. government agencies disclosed last weekend a massive data breach of its internal network by "international cyber criminals." Citrix said it was warned by the F...

Applicants data of 3 elite US colleges hacked for ransom

By Ryan De Souza Recently it was reported that Chinese hackers are aiming to target around 26 leading research academies to steal research about maritime technology, the majority of which happen to be based in the USA. In the same week, three mainstream private colleges have claimed that their...