The past few days saw an increase in distributed denial of service(DDoS) attacks involving Memcached servers which were noticed by security researchers Cloudflare, Arbor Networks and Chinese internet ...
Posts for category: Vulnerabilities Weekly Summaries
The 2018 Olympic games being held in Pyeongchang, South Korea experienced a slight disruption during their opening ceremonies. A malware dubbed “Olympic Destroyer” was recovered and analysed by ...
ADB.Miner, A Silent Outbreak of Mining
Cryptocurrency has been a hot topic as of late providing an exciting new venture for users to explore, and a new source of income for threat actors. These actors leverage malicious means in order to ...
Jackpotting, The Wrong Type of Jackpot
Brians Krebs reported on the first known ATM jackpotting attacks to occur in the U.S. on January 30, 2018. The attacks were not a surprise, as the ATM vendor Diebold/Nixdorf released a security alert ...
CrossRAT, A new cross platform malware
A detailed security research report on the advanced persistent threat, Dark Caracal was published by Lookout and the Electronic Frontier Foundation(EFF) on January 18, 2018. The report contained ...
Skygofree “Are You Being Watched?”
Kaspersky Labs released a technical document on January 16th, 2018 regarding the discovery of a powerful Android spyware, Skygofree. Having been continuously developed since the end of 2014 its ...
BlueBorne Able to Affect Amazon Echo and Google Home
Approximately two and a half months ago Armis, an Internet of Things (IoT) cybersecurity research company, disclosed BlueBorne - Bluetooth implementation vulnerabilities that affected ...
Android Vulnerabilities Patched
Last week on November 6, Google released patches for several vulnerabilities with their Android devices as a part of their monthly bulletin system update. The patches released this month address ...
[caption id="attachment_6539" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Picture taken from freeCodeCamp[/caption] Google employees utilize an online tool called Google Issue Tracker, otherwise referred to ...
HomeHack: Hacking LG Smart Appliances
The rise of common appliance devices connected to the Internet, otherwise known as Internet of Things (IoT) devices, have made people's lives convenient. They allow people the ability to control ...