Google Patches ‘High Severity’ Bug

UPDATE Google is urging users to update their Chrome desktop browsers to avoid security issues related to a high-severity stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability. Google issued the alert Thursday and said an update for most browsers has been…

Hackers planing ahead

Hackers moved one step closer to launching full-scale DDoS attacks using millions of IoT devices herded into the botnet known as Reaper or IOTroop. Researchers at NewSky Security warn that hackers are swapping scripts on forums that can scan…

BadRabbit Hitting Russia!

A ransomware attack has put a halt to business inside a handful of Russian media outlets and a number of major organizations in the Ukraine, including Kiev’s public transportation system and the country’s Odessa airport. The attacks are…

Microsoft patches critical Windows DNS client vulnerabilities

Three critical Windows DNS client vulnerabilities were patched today by Microsoft, closing off an avenue where an attacker could relatively simply respond to DNS queries with malicious code and gain arbitrary code execution on Windows clients…

Porn Site Becomes Hub for Malvertising Campaigns

Pornhub, a top-20 ranked U.S. website according to Alexa, was serving up large-scale malvertising attacks exposing millions of visitors to click-fraud. Behind the attacks is the KovCoreG Group, best known for distributing Kovter click-fraud…

Latin American ATM Thieves Turning to Hacking

MADRID—ATM jackpotting is hardly a novelty act in Latin America where criminals are more than ever connecting with hackers to figure out how to more efficiently steal money from an automated teller than, say, by using a stick of dynamite. No,…