SambaCry is coming

Not long ago, news appeared online of a younger sibling for the sensational vulnerability EternalBlue. The story was about a new vulnerability for nix-based systems – EternalRed aka SambaCry. This vulnerability CVE-2017-7494 relates to all versions of Samba, starting from 3.5.0, which was release...

Cisco Coverage for Adylkuzz, Uiwix, and EternalRocks

When the WannaCry attack was launched a little over a week ago, it was one of the first large scale attacks leveraging the data that was leaked by the Shadow Brokers. At the time the real concern was how quickly we would begin to see other threats leverage the same vulnerabilities. Over the past...

Malicious Cryptocurrency Mining tool turns Computers into Zcash Mining Machines

Since its launch over a month ago, new virtual currency Zcash ZEC has become a significant way for cybercrooks to make money by infecting computers with software mining program. Launched in late October, Zcash ZEC is a new cryptocurrency currency that claims to be more anonymous than Bitcoin, as...

BEWARE! μTorrent Silently Installing Bitcoin Mining Software

If you have recently installed or updated the popular BitTorrent client μTorrent 3.4.2 Build 28913 on your computer, then you read this warning post right now. Users of the μTorrent file-sharing service are complaining that the latest update of software used for torrent downloading is silently...