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Wikileaks Unveils CIA's Man-in-the-Middle Attack Tool

samedi 6 mai 2017 à 11:13
Wikileaks has published a new batch of the Vault 7 leak, detailing a man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack tool allegedly created by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to target local networks. Since March, WikiLeaks has published thousands of documents and other secret tools that the whistleblower group claims came from the CIA. This latest batch is the 7th release in the

Explained — How Intel AMT Vulnerability Allows to Hack Computers Remotely

vendredi 5 mai 2017 à 21:04
Earlier this week Intel announced a critical escalation of privilege bug that affects its remote management features shipping with Intel Server chipsets for past 7 years, which, if exploited, would allow a remote attacker to take control of vulnerable PCs, laptops, or servers. The vulnerability, labeled CVE-2017-5689, affects Intel remote management technologies, including Active Management

Beware! Don't Fall for FireFox "HoeflerText Font Wasn't Found" Banking Malware Scam

vendredi 5 mai 2017 à 13:48
The malicious scam campaign, "The 'HoeflerText' font wasn't found," is back, which was previously targeting Google Chrome users to trick them into installing Spora ransomware on their computers. This time the campaign has been re-designed to target Mozilla Firefox users with a banking trojan, called Zeus Panda. Interestingly, the attackers behind this new campaign are so stupid that they

An Army of Thousands of Hacked Servers Found Mining Cryptocurrencies

vendredi 5 mai 2017 à 11:19
A new botnet consisting of more than 15,000 compromised servers has been used to mine various cryptocurrencies, earning its master around $25,000 per month. Mining cryptocurrencies can be a costly investment, as it requires an enormous amount of computing power, but cybercriminals have found an easy money-making solution. Dubbed BondNet, the botnet was first spotted in December 2016 by

Unpatched Wordpress Flaw Could Allow Hackers To Reset Admin Password

jeudi 4 mai 2017 à 20:11
WordPress, the most popular CMS in the world, is vulnerable to a logical vulnerability that could allow a remote attacker to reset targeted users’ password under certain circumstances. The vulnerability (CVE-2017-8295) becomes even more dangerous after knowing that it affects all versions of WordPress — including the latest 4.7.4 version. The WordPress flaw was discovered by Polish security