Month: September 2016

BASHLITE Botnets peaked 1 Million Internet of Thing Devices http://ift.tt/2bJNA9O A joint research conducted by Level 3 Communications and Flashpoint allowed the identification of a million devices infected by the BASHLITE malware. Do you remember the BASHLITE malware? It was a strain of malware (also known as Lizkebab, Torlus and Gafgyt) detected by experts at Trend Micro shortly after…

Spotify resets users’ passwords due to data breaches suffered by other firms http://ift.tt/2bDulnR In response to the numerous data breaches suffered by other services, the music streaming service Spotify forced a password reset for a number of users. In the last months, numerous IT companies suffered a major data breach, including Dropbox, LinkedIn, MySpace, VK.com, and Tumblr. The criminal underground is flooded…

Malicious Office Docs Install Proxies to Spy on HTTPS Traffic http://ift.tt/2bTf2GX Malicious Microsoft Office documents have long been used to deliver malware onto the computers of unsuspecting users, but it appears that attackers are now abusing them in a new manner: to install rogue proxies. Discovered by Microsoft, the new attack relies on legitimate Office…