CanesSpy Spyware Discovered in Modified WhatsApp Versions

Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed a number of WhatsApp mods for Android that come fitted with a spyware module dubbed CanesSpy. These modified versions of the instant messaging app have been observed propagated via sketchy websites advertising such modded software as well as Telegram...

Over 4,500 WordPress Sites Hacked to Redirect Visitors to Sketchy Ad Pages

A massive campaign has infected over 4,500 WordPress websites as part of a long-running operation that's been believed to be active since at least 2017. According to GoDaddy-owned Sucuri, the infections involve the injection of obfuscated JavaScript hosted on a malicious domain named...

Over 4,500 WordPress Sites Hacked to Redirect Visitors to Sketchy Ad Pages

A massive campaign has infected over 4,500 WordPress websites as part of a long-running operation that's been believed to be active since at least 2017. According to GoDaddy-owned Sucuri, the infections involve the injection of obfuscated JavaScript hosted on a malicious domain named...

An Untrustworthy TLS Certificate in Browsers

The major browsers natively trust a whole bunch of certificate authorities, and some of them are really sketchy: Googles Chrome, Apples Safari, nonprofit Firefox and others allow the company, TrustCor Systems, to act as whats known as a root certificate authority, a powerful spot in the internets...

Netflix Open Source Security Tools Solve Range of Challenges

Few organizations experience the scale of Web-based application security challenges that Netflix engineers deal with on a regular basis. Sometimes the response to a threat requires a homespun tool that, more often than not, ends up being released to open source. “Our assumption is that we...