Here's How Hackers Can Disrupt '911' Emergency System and Put Your Life at Risk

What would it take for hackers to significantly disrupt the US' 911 emergency call system? It only takes 6,000 Smartphones. Yes, you heard it right! According to new research published last week, a malicious attacker can leverage a botnet of infected smartphone devices located throughout the...

FreePBX 1314 - Remote Command Execution Privilege Escalation

FreePBX 1314 - Remote Command Execution Privilege Escalation !/usr/bin/env python -- coding, latin-1 -- DESCRIPTION FreePBX 13 remote root 0day - Found and exploited by pgt @ nullsecurity.net AUTHOR pgt - nullsecurity.net DATE 8-12-2016 VERSION freepbx0day.py 0.1 AFFECTED VERSIONS FreePBX 13 & 14...

Viking Horde Malware Co-Ops Android Devices for Ad Fraud

The latest Android malware campaign to wend its way through Google’s Play marketplace can leverage victims’ phones for ad fraud, carry out DDoS attacks, send spam, and more, researchers warn. Dubbed Viking Horde, the campaign ropes Android devices into a botnet without their owners being any the...

VirusTotal Firmware Malware Implant Scanning

Successful attacks against firmware are rare but provide hackers with one thing they covet most: persistence. Advanced attack groups have already accelerated their capabilities in finding ways to burrow into the BIOS and EFI as noted by the Snowden leaks’ description of the NSA’s attempts to...

Oh Snap! Lenovo protects your Security with '12345678' as Hard-Coded Password in SHAREit

What do you expect a tech giant to protect your backdoor security with? Holy Cow! It's "12345678" as a Hard-Coded Password. Yes, Lenovo was using one of the most obvious, awful passwords of all time as a hard-coded password in its file sharing software SHAREit that could be exploited by anyone wh...

JShielder - LAMP/LEMP Secure Deployment

JSHielder is an Open Source tool developed to help SysAdmin and developers secure there Linux Servers in which they will be deploying any web application. This tool automates the process of installing all the necessary packages to host a web application and Hardening a Linux server with little...

RPISEC: Malware Analysis

This material was developed and used by RPISEC to teach Malware Analysis at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Fall 2015. This was a university course developed and run solely by students, primarily using the Practical Malware Analysis book by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, to teach skills i...

Dell's Laptops are Infected with 'Superfish-Like' pre-installed Malware

Similar to the Superfish malware that surrounded Lenovo laptops in February, another big computer manufacturer Dell spotted selling PCs and laptops pre-installed with a rogue SSL certificate that could allow attackers: To impersonate as any HTTPS-protected website and spy on when banking or...

Beurk - Experimental Unix Rootkit

BEURK is an userland preload rootkit for GNU/Linux, heavily focused around anti-debugging and anti-detection. NOTE: BEURK is a recursive acronym for B EURK E xperimental U nix R oot K it Features Hide attacker files and directories Realtime log cleanup on utmp/wtmp Anti process and login detectio...

Lenovo Caught (3rd Time) Pre-Installing Spyware on its Laptops

Lenovo has once again been caught installing spyware on its laptops and workstations without the user's permission or knowledge. One of the most popular computer manufacturers is being criticized for selling some refurbished laptop models pre-installed with invasive marketing software that sends...

Lenovo Caught Using Rootkit to Secretly Install Unremovable Software

Two years ago Chinese firm Lenovo got banned from supplying equipment for networks of the intelligence and defense services various countries due to hacking and spying concerns. Earlier this year, Lenovo was caught red-handed for selling laptops pre-installed with Superfish malware. One of the mo...

Hacking Team Spyware preloaded with UEFI BIOS Rootkit to Hide Itself

Last Week someone just hacked the infamous Hacking Team, The Italy-based cyber weapons manufacturer and leaked a huge trove of 400GB internal data, including: Emails Hacking tools Zero-day exploits Surveillance tools Source code for Spyware A spreadsheet listing every government client with date ...

Apple Mac computer firmware 0day EFI rootkit vulnerability

MAC is apple's self-developed operating system, now commonly used operating systems are windows, linux, mac. MacBook Pro Retina, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air computers may have a security vulnerability in the EFI firmware update, the attacker does not need to physically touch the target machine, c...

Apple Mac OSX Zero-Day Bug Allows Hackers to Install RootKit Malware

A zero-day software vulnerability discovered deep in the firmware of many Apple computers could allows an attacker to modify the system’s BIOS and install a rootkit, potentially gaining complete control of the victim’s Mac. The critical vulnerability, discovered by well-known OS X security...

Firmware Bug in OSX Could Allow Installation of Low-Level Rootkits

There is a vulnerability buried deep in the firmware of many Apple laptops that could allow an attacker to overwrite the machine’s BIOS and install a rootkit, gaining complete control of the Mac. The vulnerability lies in the UEFI system on some older MacBooks, and researcher Pedro Vilaca...

New GPU-based Linux Rootkit and Keylogger with Excellent Stealth and Computing Power

The world of hacking has become more organized and reliable over recent years and so the techniques of hackers. Nowadays, attackers use highly sophisticated tactics and often go to extraordinary lengths in order to mount an attack. And there is something new to the list: A team of developers has...

Attackers Peddling Malware Through CareerBuilder

Attackers have recently taken to the job-search website CareerBuilder to spread Microsoft Word documents that appear to be job hopefuls’ resumes, but in reality, are laden with malware. Researchers at the firm Proofpoint discovered the campaign and discussed their findings in a blog post. In the...

Open-Source Host-Based Intrusion Detection System: OSSEC

OSSEC is a platform to monitor and control your systems. It mixes together all the aspects of HIDS host-based intrusion detection, log monitoring, and Security Incident Management SIM/Security Information and Event Management SIEM together in a simple, powerful, and open source solution. Key...

Group Behind SSH Brute Force Attacks Slowed Down

A criminal group whose actions have at times been responsible for one-third of the Internet’s SSH traffic—most of it in the form of SSH brute force attacks—has been cut off from a portion of the Internet. While not a botnet takedown in the traditional sense, networking providers Level 3...

BIOS Rootkit Implant Debuts at CanSecWest

When the National Security Agency’s ANT division catalog of surveillance tools was disclosed among the myriad of Snowden revelations, its desire to implant malware into the BIOS of targeted machines was unquestionable. While there’s little evidence of BIOS bootkits in the wild, the ANT catalog an...