New Dark Nexus IoT botnet is designed for DDoS attacks
Bitdefender experts have discovered a new Dark Nexus IoT botnet that is designed for on attacks Dasan Zhone, DLink and ASUS routers, as well...
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Experts figured out why the xHelper Trojan is considered “unkillable”
Kaspersky Lab experts published a report on malware for Android xHelper. Researchers have found out why the xHelper trojan is considered “unkillable” and what...
Mozilla Firefox developers fixed two 0-day vulnerabilities
Mozilla developers released an updated version of Firefox 74.0.1, where they fixed two fresh 0-day vulnerabilities that hackers had already exploited. All users are...
Mining botnet Vollgar bruteforced Microsoft SQL servers for two years
Guardicore experts discovered the Vollgar mining botnet, which bruteforced Microsoft SQL databases to take control of the administrator account, seize the server and install...
From Zoom app removed a code that allowed Facebook tracking users
Journalists from Vice Motherboard found that after updating the Zoom application for iOS last week, it began to transfer data about Facebook users, even...
Zeus Sphinx operators resumed activities during pandemic
After many years of silence, malware operators Zeus Sphinx (also known as Zloader or Terdot) resumed their activities in order to benefit from a...
Temporary patches arrived for 0-day vulnerabilities in the atmfd.dll library
Last week, were discovered two 0-day vulnerabilities as part of the Adobe Type Manager Library (atmfd.dll), which are already under attack by hackers. Now...
In addition to the Dridex Trojan and Locky ransomware, Evil Corp uses legitimate tools
Prevailion company warned that Russian hacker Evil Corp (aka TA505) is actively using legitimate tools (in addition to malware) to attack German companies. me...
Banker TrickBot has its own malicious Android application
Only recently we talked about how TrickBot uses hacked systems for brute force attacks on RDP, and today IBM experts discovered that the banking...
0-day vulnerabilities in atmfd.dll endanger all versions of Windows
Microsoft warns that as part of the Adobe Type Manager Library (atmfd.dll), were discovered two vulnerabilities that hackers already exploit. These 0-day vulnerabilities in...
TrickBot uses hacked systems for brute force attacks on RDP
Bitdefender experts have discovered a new module for the well-known banking Trojan TrickBot, which uses hacked systems to launch brute force attacks on RDP...
Maze and DoppelPaymer ransomware suspended attacks on medical organizations
Ransomware operators Maze and DoppelPaymer have suspended any attacks on medical facilities during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. DoppelPaymer representatives told BleepingComputer, they usually do...
