Crypto Threats Surge by 500%, and It's All About the Money

Previously reserved for early adopters and tech-savvy consumers, cryptocurrencies have gone mainstream -- with tech entrepreneurs and prominent financial institutions leading the charge...

Intel® NUC Firmware Advisory

Summary: Potential security vulnerabilities for some Intel® NUCs may allow escalation of privilege. Intel is releasing firmware updates to mitigate these potential vulnerabilities. Vulnerability Details: CVEID: CVE-2021-0067 Description: Improper access control in system firmware for some IntelR...

November 10, 2020—KB4586823 (Security-only update)

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August 11, 2020—KB4571736 (Monthly Rollup)

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Signal Is Finally Bringing Its Secure Messaging to the Masses

The encryption app is putting a $50 million infusion from WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton to good use, building out features to help it go mainstream...

Twitch Has Become a Haven for Live Sports Piracy

As the platform gains more mainstream popularity, illicit livestreams of soccer, boxing, and MMA matches have become trivial to find...

Patch Tuesday, January 2020 Edition

Microsoft today released updates to plug 50 security holes in various flavors of Windows and related software. The patch batch includes a fix for a flaw in Windows 10 and server equivalents of this operating system that prompted an unprecedented public warning from the U.S. National Security...

Multiple Intel NUC Firmware Multiple Security Vulnerabilities

Description Multiple Intel NUC Firmware are prone to multiple unspecified security vulnerabilities. Attackers can leverage these issues to gain elevated privileges. Technologies Affected Intel Compute Card CD1IV128MK BIOS Intel Compute Card CD1M3128MK BIOS Intel Compute Card CD1P64GK BIOS Intel...

The cake is a lie! Uncovering the secret world of malware-like cheats in video games

In 2018, the video game industry became one of the most lucrative in the world, generating $43.4 billion in revenue within the United States alone. When we consider that video game licenses are only a fraction of the total market, it becomes clear just how important the industry is compared to th...

Reminder: Microsoft to end support for Windows 7 in 1-year from today

A new reminder for those who are still holding on to the Windows 7 operating system—you have one year left until Microsoft ends support for its 9-year-old operating system. So it's time for you to upgrade your OS and say goodbye to Windows 7, as its five years of extended support will end on...

When spyware goes mainstream

Stealware. Surveillanceware. Stalkerware. These are terms alternately used to effectively identify a file-based threat that has been around since 1996: spyware. More than two decades later, consumer or commercial spyware has gone mainstream, and the surprising number of software designed, openly...

Mainstream Live Chat widgets leaking personal details of employees

By Waqas According to the findings of Project Insecurity researchers Cody Zacharias This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Mainstream Live Chat widgets leaking personal details of employees...

A week in security (January 29 – February 04)

Last week on Labs, we looked into PUPs stealing and using mainstream logos of security and tech companies to further gain user trust, GandCrab and Scarab ransomware variants in the wild, and a new Mac malware called OSX.CreativeUpdater that can be distributed via MacUpdate. We also profiled...

The Evolution of Ransomware

While many businesses and individual users understand that ransomware isn't a new threat, many don't actually know how long this particular infection style has been utilized by hackers. The first attacks took place more than a decade ago, and since then, ransomware authors have only become more...

Remembering When APT Became Public

Last week I Tweeted the following on the 8th anniversary of Google's blog post about its compromise by Chinese threat actors: This intrusion made the term APT mainstream. I was the first to associate it with Aurora, in this post https://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2010/01/google-v-china.html My firs...

A newline character causes the Oscar vulnerability 0day(CVE-2017-8759)reproduction-latest Office the highest level of threat attack warning-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Krzysztof, the 360 group focus of the Security Business Unit elucidating the team invented a new type of Office document high-end intimidating onslaught, the 进击应用了9月12日补钉刚修复的.NET Framework flaws vulnerability bug, the flaw exploits a bug in the field is applied for 0day condition, the user closed...

The two did not repair the vulnerabilities affect the mainstream browser extension system-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Security researchers found that the two did not fix the vulnerability embedded in many mainstream browsers in the expansion of the system, such as Firefox, Safari, and all with Chromium related browsers such as Chrome, Opera, etc. ! An attacker can exploit these vulnerabilities expose the user of...

Through AWS, Google Cloud and Digital Ocean DNS vulnerability take over nearly 12 million domain names-bug warning-the black bar safety net

Shortly before, I was at cloud hosting provider Digital Ocean domain into the system found a security vulnerability, an attacker or may exploit this vulnerability to take over two million of the plurality of domain names in the report of the transfer gate on. If you have not read this report whil...

FFmpeg remote file stealing vulnerabilities – moving end of the safety analysis report-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

0x1 vulnerability of origin FFmpeg remote file stealing vulnerabilities original source is Foreign vulnerability of the platform,the last year has been in the CTF match is used. Official in January of this year released the fixed version and published the vulnerability number CVE-2 0 1 6-1 8 9...