Ukrainian Police Arrest Hacker Who Tried Selling Billions of Stolen Records

The Ukrainian police have arrested a hacker who made headlines in January last year by posting a massive database containing some 773 million stolen email addresses and 21 million unique plaintext passwords for sale on various underground hacking forums. In an official statement released on...

Ransomware, Mobile Malware Attacks to Surge in 2020

Cyber threats like targeted ransomware, mobile malware and sophisticated phishing attacks will escalate in 2020, researchers warn. However, defenses like artificial intelligence AI, cyber insurance and faster security response will also increase, helping defend companies against imminent threats,...

The vulnerability of the elf_cvt_note() function in the ELF file modification and analysis utility Elfutils allows a attacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the elfcvtnote function in the Elfutils tool for modifying and analyzing binary ELF files is related to an attempt to copy negative data volumes. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a perpetrator to cause service failures...