New Versions of Carbanak Banking Malware Seen Hitting Targets in U.S. and Europe

New variants of the notorious Carbanak Trojan have surfaced in Europe and the United States, and researchers say that the malware now has its own proprietary communications protocol and the samples seen so far have been digitally signed. Carbanak has been in use for several years, and researchers...

British-born ISIS Hacker Killed in US Drone Strike in Syria

Remember Team Poison? The hackers group that was active in 2012, and was known for gaining access to the former Prime Minister Tony Blair's address book and then publishing information from it. The British hacker who actually obtained the Prime Minister's address book and was jailed for six month...

Microsoft Launches Cortana App For Android Users

Yes, she is here! Android users can now talk to Cortana – the first personal digital assistant – which is a patented product of Microsoft. She is available on all the devices running Windows 10. Earlier in May, Microsoft said they will make Cortana available for Android and iOS users. Therefore, ...

Hacking Team Says It Always Sold 'Strictly Within the Law'

Hacking Team officials are disputing reports that the company sold its surveillance and intrusion software to oppressive regimes in countries that were under sanction. The company said it sold its products “strictly within the law and regulation as it applied at the time any sale was made.” The n...

Java exposure to high-risk 0day vulnerability has been Russian hackers use-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Recently, the Java exposure to high-risk 0day vulnerability. Trend Micro has warned that the vulnerability has now been a Russian hacking group using, attack target primarily the United States Department of Defense, North Atlantic Treaty Organization member States. ! Java exposure to high-risk 0d...

Mac OS X Multiple EFI Vulnerabilities (EFI Security Update 2015-001)

The remote Mac OS X host is running EFI firmware that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - An insufficient locking issue exists, when resuming from sleep states, which allows a local attacker to write to the EFI flash memory by using an crafted application with root privileges. CVE-2015-36...

Just-Metadata - Tool that Gathers and Analyzes Metadata about IP Addresses

Just-Metadata is a tool that can be used to gather intelligence information passively about a large number of IP addresses, and attempt to extrapolate relationships that might not otherwise be seen. Just-Metadata has "gather" modules which are used to gather metadata about IPs loaded into the...

opentopia.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-57246 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| opentopia.com Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Remediation Guide:| OWASP XSS Prevention Cheat Shee...

Satellite-Based Monitoring Constitutes a Fourth Amendment Search

The Supreme Court has weighed in on a series of lower court decisions, issuing a summary opinion that satellite-based monitoring is in fact a Fourth Amendment search. What remains to be decided is whether GPS-based tracking constitutes an unreasonable search and is thus a violation of the Fourth...

Mandarin Oriental Confirms Data Breach at U.S., European Hotels

The Mandarin Oriental luxury hotel chain is investigating a data breach that affects credit cards used in an “isolated number” of its hotels in the United States and Europe. Company officials said that the attack involved “undetectable” malware on some of its systems and emphasized that only cred...

Zappos Settles with Nine States Following Data Breach

Online retailer Zappos this week settled with attorneys general in nine states, agreeing to pay out $106,000 stemming from a data breach in 2012 that exposed 24 million customers’ information. Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley filed the settlement in Suffolk Superior Court on Wednesda...

Paper: NetFlow Data De-Anonymizes Tor Users

Tor Project leaders are trying to rein in concerns about an academic paper describing an end-to-end traffic correlation attack that could be used by a well-funded attacker such as a nation state to de-anonymize traffic on Tor. Executive director Roger Dingledine points out that the researchers...

Government, Industry Focusing on Issue of Resiliency

WASHINGTON–As things stand right now, the United States has no overarching national information security policy or centralized agency responsible for defending the government’s networks in the event of a serious cyberattack. There have been many pushes over the years to change that and put one...

Effects full version Windows: iSIGHT surveillance espionage found Windows latest 0day vulnerabilities-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

the iSIGHT in Russian cyber-espionage discovered to affect all versions of Windows System with the latest 0day vulnerabilities, vulnerability number CVE-2 0 1 4-4 1 1 4, At present, Microsoft is the emergency of the vulnerability of making the patch. ! Yesterday, Microsoft partners iSIGHT Partner...

Tyupkin Malware Hacking ATM Machines Worldwide

Money is always a perfect motivation for cyber criminals who tries different tricks to solely target users with card skimmers that steal debit card numbers, but now the criminals are using specialized malware that targets ATM Automated Teller Machine systems to withdraw cash even without the need...

Amazing exposure Netcore routers exist back door, anyone can be a remote access-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

The Trend Micro researchers said yesterday at the official website shows, the Chinese manufacturers produce a series of routers contain a severe vulnerability, the hacker through the loopholes in monitoring user's Internet traffic. Router in China the Brand Name Netcore in foreign countries the...

Samsung To Pay $2.3 Million Fine for Deceiving the U.S. Government

The United States division of Samsung has been charged with deceiving the US government into believing that several of its products met the necessary US government policies, resulting in the US government buying unauthorised Chinese-made electronics. The South Korean electronics giant has agreed ...

Hacking Traffic Lights is Amazingly Really Easy

Hacking Internet of Things IoTs have become an amazing practice for cyber criminals out there, but messing with Traffic lights would be something more crazy for them. The hacking scenes in hollywood movies has just been a source of entertainment for the technology industry, like we've seen traffi...

NewGOZ Gameover Zeus Botnet Rebuilds

It didn’t take long for an updated version of GameOver Zeus to make some headway in rebuilding itself. Research published today from Arbor Networks demonstrates that cybercriminals behind GameOver Zeus, which was taken down by law enforcement in early June, have renewed the botnet with at least...

Twitter 'Weighing Legal Options' On Publishing National Security Requests Data

Twitter officials are pushing the United States government for more freedom to publish specific numbers about national security information requests, and said the company is considering its legal options if the government doesn’t allow more data to be made public. In its latest transparency repor...