General Security News
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Researchers Warns of Increase in Phishing Attacks Using Decentralized IPFS Network
The decentralized file system solution known as IPFS is becoming the new "hotbed" for hosting phishing sites, researchers have warned....
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5 Benefits of a Cloud Firewall
Firewalls have been a staple of almost every organization’s security since its inception in the late 80s. A firewall is a network security...
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Attackers Use Malicious IIS Extensions to Deploy Covert Backdoors into Exchange Servers
As opposed to web shells, malicious extensions for the IIS web server have a lower detection rate, which means attackers are increasingly using...
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Spanish Police Arrest 2 Nuclear Power Workers for Cyberattacking the Radiation Alert System
Spanish law enforcement officials have announced the arrest of two individuals in connection with a cyberattack on the country's radioactivity...
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Hackers Opting New Attack Methods After Microsoft Blocked Macros by Default
With Microsoft taking steps to block Excel 4.0 (XLM or XL4) and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros by default across Office apps, malicious...
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Latest Critical Atlassian Confluence Vulnerability Under Active Exploitation
A week after Atlassian rolled out patches to contain a critical flaw in its Questions For Confluence app for Confluence Server and Confluence Data...
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Chinese Hackers Deploy Malware in Firmware Images of Certain Motherboards
CosmicStrand is a new and sophisticated UEFI firmware rootkit that has been attributed to an unknown Chinese-speaking hacker. In a study...
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LibreOffice Releases Software Update to Patch 3 New Vulnerabilities
The team behind LibreOffice has released security updates to fix three security flaws in the productivity software, one of which could be exploited...
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U.S. Offers $10 Million Reward for Information on North Korean Hackers
The U.S. State Department has announced rewards of up to $10 million for any information that could help disrupt North Korea's cryptocurrency...
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These 28+ Android Apps with 10 Million Downloads from the Play Store Contain Malware
As many as 30 malicious Android apps with cumulative downloads of nearly 10 million have been found on the Google Play Store distributing adware....
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North Korean APT37 Hackers Attack EU Countries with Konni RAT Malware
It has been discovered by security researchers at Securonix that APT37, a North Korean hacking group, has launched a new campaign that is...
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Beware!! Hackers Distribute Amadey Malware Pushed via Software Cracks & Keygen Sites
Software cracks and keygen sites are used as bait to distribute the latest version of the Amadey Bot malware with the help of SmokeLoader...