Microsoft IIS servers hacked by Blue Mockingbird to mine Monero
This month news broke about a hacker group, namely Blue Mockingbird, exploiting a critical vulnerability in Microsoft IIS servers to plant Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency miners on compromised machines.... Read More
NHS contact-tracing app code hints at security and privacy bugs early on
London, UK. NHS recently announced plans to unveil their own coronavirus contact-tracing app, as opposed to joining leagues of Apple and Google, to have better visibility into citizen movements.... Read More
Experts Warn: Amid Budget Cuts, The Pandemic Calls for Stepping Up Security Efforts
These unprecedented times have pushed us to adapt distinctive lifestyles contrary to what we’ve been used to for a millenia. Industries like finance, law, banking and the... Read More
“Zoombombing” — an exaggerated phenomenon, not a vulnerability.
Why is the exclusive focus on Zoom, when the same “flaw” impacts almost all popular video conferencing apps? In this Coronavirus era, as if daily... Read More
Facebook’s reluctance to feedback is putting millions of WhatsApp users at risk of malware
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Workarounds aimed at hiding ‘online’ activity on WhatsApp can seriously compromise user security and privacy. But, Facebook doesn’t care. The internet is filled with articles such... Read More
The ‘forgotten’ ZEE5 data leak you didn’t hear about.
In an exclusive story reported on my blog about a month ago and on no mainstream media outlet, credentials of some 1,023 Premium accounts were found floating on the... Read More
The apps named DEFENSOR ID and Defensor Digital rely mainly on Android's Accessibility Service to conduct malicious activities, and go undetected. The attacker controlled C&C domains are still up - well at least one of them, and that's problematic.... Read More
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