Month: January 2019

For those who don’t know SmokeLoader is a second-stage downloader known that first hit the cyberspace on 2011. Since 2011 it had just an ascending rate and now that rate made it reach ninth place in the most wanted malware index’s top 10. It had been used to hit hard[…]

Be aware! A decades-old flaw which is present in the design of the Secure Copy Protocol (SCP) tools can be exploited by malicious servers to alter victims’ files. Cybersecurity researchers have discovered that five old CVE vulnerabilities can still be abused by malicious servers to overwrite arbitrary files on a[…]

Terrible news for today! Bridgeport Public Schools, from K-12 district in Connecticut that is about 40 miles northeast of the Bronx, got encrypted by ransomware. The devastating cyber attack originated from a virus delivered by a malicious hacker. At first, it has encrypted all the district data and then demanded[…]

Cybersecurity researchers are doing their best to find the mastermind behind the Ryuk ransomware, but for now, they have no joy. It all started with a Ryuk cyberattack that badly affected newspapers owned by Tribune Publishing, including the Chicago Tribune and Baltimore Sun, as well as the Los Angeles Times.[…]

The newly discovered cyberattack is used by hackers to hit operating systems in order to captures targeted company’s cryptography keys. This kind of new cyber attack is a side-channel based one that bypasses specific chips for hardware and operating systems. Researchers said that the cyber attack leverages a fundamental feature[…]