Ex-NSA Developer Gets 5.5 Years in Prison for Taking Top Secret Documents Home

A former NSA employee has been sentenced to five and a half years in prison for illegally taking a copy of highly classified documents and hacking tools to his home computer between 2010 and 2015, which were later stolen by Russian hackers. Nghia Hoang Pho, 68, of Ellicott City, Maryland—who work...

McAfee True Key Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

McAfee True Key TK is an authentication application from the American company McAfee. The program supports features such as facial information recognition and fingerprint recognition. A security vulnerability exists in McAfee TK 4.0.0.0 and earlier versions. The vulnerability can be exploited by ...

Adwind RAT Scurries By AV Software With New DDE Variant

A newly-discovered spam campaign is spreading the Adwind 3.0 remote-access tool RAT – and using a fresh take on the Dynamic Data Exchange DDE code-injection technique for anti-virus evasion. The spam campaign features two types of droppers that leverage a new variant to the already-known DDE...

Operator of VirusTotal Like Malware-Scanning Service Jailed for 14 Years

A Latvian hacker behind the development and operation of counter antivirus service "Scan4You" has finally been sentenced to 14 years in prison. 37-year-old Ruslans Bondars, described as a Latvian "non-citizen" or "citizen of the former USSR who had been residing in Riga, Latvia," was found guilty...

Emotet on the rise with heavy spam campaign

The threat landscape is changing once again, now that the ocean of cryptocurrency miners has shrunk to a small lake. Over the last couple months, we've seen cybercriminals lean back on tried and true methods of financial theft and extortion, with the rise of a familiar Banking Trojan: Emotet...

CVE-2018-14688

An issue was discovered in Subsonic 6.1.1. The radio settings are affected by three stored cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in the namex, streamUrlx, homepageUrlx parameters where x is an integer to internetRadioSettings.view that could be used to steal session information of a victim...

Hackers Steal Customers' Credit Cards From Newegg Electronics Retailer

The notorious hacking group behind the Ticketmaster and British Airways data breaches has now victimized popular computer hardware and consumer electronics retailer Newegg. Magecart hacking group managed to infiltrate the Newegg website and steal the credit card details of all customers who enter...

Insiders Continue to be Data Theft’s Best Friend

Some of the most damaging attacks to hit organizations over the last several years weren’t caused by outside threat actors. They originated from within an organization’s corporate network. They were inside jobs. It’s not that outside attackers don’t pose a threat. Between adversaries looking to...

Apple removes top anti-malware apps from its store for “stealing data”

By Waqas Adware Doctor and Trend Micro Apps have been kicked out by Apple. Apple Inc. has always propagated its products as designed with most advanced security and privacy practices. The company has also promoted itself as the only firm that prioritizes and safeguards user privacy. The iOS and M...

Osiris Banking Trojan Displays Modern Malware Innovation

After staying dormant for few years, the Kronos banking trojan resurfaced in July in a form dubbed Osiris. A wider analysis of how the banking trojan is evolving shows innovative development on the part of its authors, with an eye to broader malware trends. Osiris first appeared in July in three...

Apple Removes Several Trend Micro Apps For Collecting MacOS Users' Data

Apple has removed almost all popular security apps offered by well-known cyber-security vendor Trend Micro from its official Mac App Store after they were caught stealing users' sensitive data without their consent. The controversial apps in question include Dr Cleaner, Dr Cleaner Pro, Dr...

How Hackers Slipped by British Airways' Data Defenses

Security researchers have detailed how a criminal hacking gang used just 22 lines of code to steal credit card info from hundreds of thousands of British Airways customers...

British Airways Hack Triggers GDPR Concerns, as World Awaits Windows 0-Day Patch

A swipe of confidential data from almost 400,000 British Airways customers. A string of app takedowns at the Mac App Store after exfiltration findings. A gargantuan data breach at a Chinese hotel chain. An unpatched zero-day Windows bug exploited in the wild. These are some of the security news...

Hijacked Environment Variables in proxy.js

The proxy.js package is a piece of malware that steals environment variables and sends them to attacker controlled locations. All versions have been unpublished from the npm registry. Recommendation As this package is malware, if you find it installed in your environment, the real security concer...

Cross site scripting

FlightAirMap version =v1.0-beta.21 contains a Cross Site Scripting XSS vulnerability in GET variable used within registration sub menu page that can result in unauthorised actions and access to data, stealing session information. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in after commit 22b09...

16-Year-Old Teen Hacked Apple Servers, Stole 90GB of Secure Files

Well, there's something quite embarrassing for Apple fans. Though Apple servers are widely believed to be unhackable, a 16-year-old high school student proved that nothing is impossible. The teenager from Melbourne, Australia, managed to break into Apple servers and downloaded some 90GB of secure...

Email Phishers Using New Way to Bypass Microsoft Office 365 Protections

Phishing works no matter how hard a company tries to protect its customers or employees. Security researchers have been warning of a new phishing attack that cybercriminals and email scammers are using in the wild to bypass the Advanced Threat Protection ATP mechanism implemented by widely used...

coffescript is malware

The coffescript package is a piece of malware that steals sensitive data such as a user's private SSH key and bash history, sending them to attacker controlled locations. All versions have been unpublished from the npm registry. Recommendation If you have found coffescript installed in your...

GHSA-MC9X-V9XG-25PM coffescript is malware

The coffescript package is a piece of malware that steals sensitive data such as a user's private SSH key and bash history, sending them to attacker controlled locations. All versions have been unpublished from the npm registry. Recommendation If you have found coffescript installed in your...

cofee-script is malware

The cofee-script package is a piece of malware that steals sensitive data such as a user's private SSH key and bash history, sending them to attacker controlled locations. All versions have been unpublished from the npm registry. Recommendation If you have found cofee-script installed in your...