The use and popularity of hackers using exploit kits seems to be waning. This decline in use has been attributed to arrests, prison sentences, and service disruptions caused by law enforcement in partnership with security firms. This is most certainly good news but does not mean their use is complet
Security researchers at security firm ESET have witnessed the threat group “PowerPool” exploiting a Windows zero-day vulnerability. The vulnerability is being used by the threat group to elevate the privileges of a backdoor in targeted attacks. The flaw was disclosed on August 27 with the proof of c
The Russian-based hacking group Cobalt is again targeting banks in a new campaign. In this latest campaign, it would appear that the group has limited its targets to Russian and Romanian banks. Cobalt has been active since 2016 and already boasts a number of scalps. As it stands the group has been c
In what Jennifer Lawrence, and the other victims of the so-called “Fappening”, will see as a victory, one of the hackers responsible has received an eight-month prison term for his part in the hack. In 2014 George Garofano, 26-years-old, of North Branford in Connecticut, covertly gained access to ap
For Cosmos Bank, a bank that has been in business for 112 years, August will go down as one of the bank’s worst months. On August 14, 2018, the Hindustan Times reported that the bank suffered a two-stage attack where malware was used on the bank's ATM server to steal the credit card information of c
The North Korean linked Lazarus group has been on both government and security firms advanced persistent threat (APT) watch lists for a while now. Sometimes referred to as Hidden Cobra, particularly by the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), the group has conducted many cyber espionage c
For several years now the Chinese government has been attempting to create a set of standards and norms governing cybersecurity. In the wake of increased trade tensions between the US and China, there is a growing fear among security researchers and investors that these standards may be used to dete
The start of the year seemed to open with a bang on the cybersecurity news front. The Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities made headlines with fears that they could be as bad, if not worse, than the previous Heartbleed vulnerability that made its mark on CPUs previously. Since then every now and the
Security researcher Ruben Santamarta published a research paper detailing that that hundreds of airplanes from several airlines could have been hacked remotely from the ground through vulnerabilities in satellite communications systems. The latest research paper follows a paper published in 2014 by
Recently many security firms have detailed the rise of cryptojacking as a favored method of hackers for increasing their payroll. What was noticed was the detections of ransomware had declined massively while cryptojacking detections had skyrocketed exponentially. This led some to believe that ranso