Black Hat 2019: WhatsApp Users Still Open to Message Manipulation

LAS VEGAS – Researchers at Black Hat USA 2019 demoed how known vulnerabilities in WhatsApp could still be exploited in several attacks that manipulate chats. Facebook-owned WhatsApp is a popular end-to-end encrypted messaging platform with at least 1.5 billion users. Researchers with Check Point...

W3Brute - Automatic Web Application Brute Force Attack Tool

w3brute is an open source penetration testing tool that automates attacks directly to the website's login page. w3brute is also supported for carrying out brute force attacks on all websites. Features 1. Scanner: w3brute has a scanner feature that serves to support the bruteforce attack process...

National Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Careers in Cybersecurity

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, an annual campaign to raise awareness about cybersecurity. The month’s themes educate students and professionals about cybersecurity attack methods, best practices, and preventive measures and are geared toward informing the next generation of...

6 sure signs someone is phishing you—besides email

There are several common and, unfortunately, frequently successful avenues of attack that cybercriminals can use to part you from your personal contact and financial information. These phishing attack methods include email, phone calls, corrupted software or apps, social media, advertisements, an...

Adversarial Robustness Toolbox: ART

The Adversarial Robustness Toolbox ART, an open source software library, supports both researchers and developers in defending deep neural networks against adversarial attacks, making AI systems more secure. Its purpose is to allow rapid crafting and analysis of attack and defense methods for...

The researchers found that the 4G LTE network Protocol vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Recently, four American University researchers found that a 4G LTE agreement in question, the use of this vulnerability can be false information fabricated, you can also monitor the user and the address of the track. In the 5G is the deployment of the next phase, we should also note that the...

Contain Attacks in Real Time with Live Response in Cb Defense

Endpoint security is broken. Yes, you’ve heard it before - traditional, signature-based antivirus AV can’t keep up with the volume of new malware and advanced attack methods being developed by cyber criminals every day. And that’s absolutely true. But a report published last year highlights an ev...

Monero: Corrupt RPC responses from remote daemon nodes can lead to transaction tracing

Dear Monero security team, We’re writing to disclose a privacy vulnerability when using monero-cli or monero-gui with an untrusted remote node. When using a remote node, the Monero client relies on the node to provide information from the blockchain, in particular the public keys and transaction...

Symantec Encryption Desktop And Endpoint Encryption Local Privilege Escalation

Vulnerabilities in Symantec Encryption Desktop and Endpoint Encryption allow an attacker to attain arbitrary hard disk read and write access at sector level, and subsequently infect the target and gain low level persistence MBR/VBR. They also allow the attacker to execute code in the context of t...

7 Predictions for Ransomware’s Evolution

During the past six months, the Carbon Black Threat Analysis Unit TAU analyzed more than 1,000 ransomware samples, categorizing them into 150 families, and found attackers are looking to make quick, easy money with unsophisticated malware, combined with sophisticated delivery methods. Our samplin...

Grading our Predictions: See how we fared in 1H 2017

In December of last year, we released eight predictions as to what we thought the 2017 cybersecurity landscape would hold. Although we’ve definitely observed new trends and attacks that we didn’t foresee, we’ve also seen several of our predictions play out as anticipated. With only three and a ha...

Google Removes Chrome Extension Used in Banking Fraud

Google has removed from the Chrome Web Store a malicious browser extension used by criminals in Brazil to target corporate users with the aim of stealing banking credentials. The twist is that the attackers did their homework on their targets, learning via social networks whom inside an...

CopyKittens Exposed by ClearSky and Trend Micro

CopyKittens is a cyberespionage group that ClearSky has been reporting on since 2015, tracking their attacks on government-related bodies around the world. Trend Micro has supported this research at several points, including for their latest report released today on the group’s vast espionage...

Windows BITS 'Notification' Feature Used to Deliver Malware

Attackers have found a new way to exploit the Widows Background Intelligent Transfer Service BITS which is being used to infect and reinfect targeted PCs with malware even after the initial infection has been removed. According to security researchers at Dell SecureWorks, attackers are exploiting...

Attack the onion routing(Tor)and anonymous service to some of the review-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Tor The Onion Router, the onion router's main purpose is to prevent flow through the filter and Sniffer to spy on the user of the communication Privacy, the majority of the Chinese people familiar with it not because it's encrypted, but because it is a multi-layer node could span the Great Wall o...

Car Hacking Gets the Attention of Detroit and Washington

Car hacking is a relatively new phenomenon, but it is evolving at a frighteningly quick pace. While just a year or two ago security researchers were still trying to work out exactly how the internal electronics and communications gear in vehicles works, now a pair of researchers has discovered a...

[Hashkill 0.3.1] Password Cracker Tool Released

Hashkill is an opensource hash cracker for Linux that uses OpenSSL. Currently it supports 4 attack methods dictionary, bruteforce, hybrid. Hashkill has 35 plugins for different types of passwords ranging from simple hashes like MD5 and SHA1 to passworded ZIP files and private SSL key passphrases...

Operation Red October : Cyber Espionage campaign against many Governments

A new sensational discovered has been announced by Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research & Analysis Team result of an investigation after several attacks hit computer networks of various international diplomatic service agencies. A new large scale cyber-espionage operation has been discovered, named Re...

Think Like a Hacker for Better Security

Computer hacking is truly an epidemic. It's not enough to apply the latest patches to your servers and workstations or otherwise defend yourself reactively. If you're in charge of your network's security, you must understand how hackers minds work and what tools they're using for their attacks...

Social network poisoning - They are Following you Everywhere !

Note : This Article is taken from Most Comprehensive and Informative IT Security Magazine by The Hacker News - December Edition Download Here "Be Social" is the imperative of the last years. We live alternative lives, weave dense networks of relationships; we feel the irrepressible urge to be par...