Month: September 2016

Sidestepping your lockscreen with an innocent-looking USB stick http://ift.tt/2bXmj3f Here’s something that’s supposed to happen, and it’s jolly convenient, too. If you plug a USB ethernet dongle into a Windows or OS X computer and the system supports it, then the operating system will activate the needed drivers, fire up the device, configure the network…

2.5 Million Possibly Impacted by New Malware in Google Play http://ift.tt/2bXtjNu Malware that slips past the Google Bouncer and becomes available via Google Play isn’t something new, but it still comes as a surprise that some malicious programs manage to infect millions through the official store before being caught. Such is the case with two…

Oh, It’s On Sale! USB Kill to Destroy any Computer within Seconds http://ift.tt/2cySuHO Remember Killer USB stick? A proof-of-concept USB prototype that was designed by a Russian researcher, Dark Purple, last year, to effectively destroy sensitive components of a computer when plugged in. Now, someone has actually created the Killer USB stick that destroys almost…

AccessURL – share accounts without usernames and passwords http://ift.tt/2bYsB7E AccessURL – share accounts without usernames and passwords: Not sure if real, or real troll… Cookie Sharing as a Service Vulnerabilities via Ecstatic Security http://ift.tt/1TuVnt9 September 8, 2016 at 03:32PM

osquery :: OSX-attacks http://ift.tt/2bYsGYZ osquery :: OSX-attacks: Good collection of OSX persistance/threat infoz Vulnerabilities via Ecstatic Security http://ift.tt/1TuVnt9 September 8, 2016 at 03:32PM

The Missing Piece – Sophisticated OS X Backdoor Discovered http://ift.tt/2bYrVPC The Missing Piece – Sophisticated OS X Backdoor Discovered: Vulnerabilities via Ecstatic Security http://ift.tt/1TuVnt9 September 8, 2016 at 03:32PM

Doctor Web discovers Linux Trojan written in Rust http://ift.tt/2cf4rSd September 8, 2016 Doctor Web’s specialists have discovered a new Linux Trojan written in the Rust programming language. The Trojan has been named Linux.BackDoor.Irc.16. Linux.BackDoor.Irc.16 is a typical backdoor program that executes commands issued by cybercriminals via the IRC (Internet Relay Chat) protocol. Threat Intel via…

Hackers Threatening To Launch A Huge New DDoS Attack http://ift.tt/2cpGwTP The ISBuzz Post : This Post Hackers Threatening To Launch A Huge New DDoS Attack appeared first on Information Security Buzz . Following the news that ‘Armada Collective’ hackers have threatened to launch a huge new DDoS attack, Sean Newman, Director at Corero commented below.…

Talos ShadowGate Take Down: Global Malvertising Campaign Thwarted http://ift.tt/2c2T7vb Cisco’s research team Talos posted a interesting article on their recently work with GoDaddy to take down large malvertising campaign. The original post can be found HERE. This article includes a fantastic explanation of exploit kits and gates. Exploit kits are a class of threat that…