Delta, Sears Breaches Blamed on Malware Attack Against a Third-Party Chat Service

Security researchers are pinning a recent data breach – that potentially exposed the credit card information of hundreds of thousands of Delta Air Lines and Sears Holdings customers – on weak third-party security policies. The cyberattack hit software service provider 247.ai, a company that...

Windows Atom Tables Can Be Abused for Code Injection Attacks

Researchers have identified a way attackers could use atom tables in all versions of Windows to inject malicious code into a computer and bypass detection by security products at the same time. The technique has been nicknamed AtomBombing by researchers at enSilo, and opens the door to perform...

APT Groups Exploiting Patch Microsoft Office Flaw CVE-2015-2545

A Microsoft Office vulnerability patched six months ago continues to be a valuable tool for APT gangs operating primarily in Southeast Asia and the Far East. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab today published a report describing how attackers continue to flourish exploiting CVE-2015-2545, a remote code...