Alien versus Predator? No, this Android spyware works together
Phone-hugging code can record calls, read messages, track geolocation, access camera, other snooping
Research27 May 2023 | 8
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Spotted: Suspected Russian malware designed to disrupt Euro, Asia energy grids
Updated For simulation or for real, we don't like the vibes from this CosmicEnergy
Research25 May 2023 | 8
Upstart encryption app walks back privacy claims, pulls from stores after probe
Try not leaving a database full of user info, chats, keys exposed, eh?
Research17 May 2023 | 40
Let white-hat hackers stick a probe in those voting machines, say senators
HAVA go at breaking electronic ballot box security
Research11 May 2023 | 47
DEF CON to set thousands of hackers loose on LLMs
Can't wait to see how these AI models hold up against a weekend of red-teaming by infosec's village people
Research06 May 2023 | 27
How fiends abuse an out-of-date Microsoft Windows driver to infect victims
It's like those TV movies where a spy cuts a wire and the whole building's security goes out
Research24 Apr 2023 | 16
Firmware is on shaky ground – let's see what it's made of
Opinion Old architectures just don't stack up
Research17 Apr 2023 | 69
Another zero-click Apple spyware maker just popped up on the radar again
Pegasus, pssh, you so 2000-and-late
Research12 Apr 2023 | 8
Welcome to open source, Elon. Your Twitter code just got a CVE for shadow ban bug
Plus: Substack shanked by bitter Twitter?
Research07 Apr 2023 | 14
CAN do attitude: How thieves steal cars using network bus
It starts with a headlamp and fake smart speaker, and ends in an injection attack and a vanished motor
Research06 Apr 2023 | 198
April brings tulips, taxes ... and phisherfolk scammers
Tactical#Octopus: Don't let users click on that zip file
Research03 Apr 2023 | 6
Leaked IT contractor files detail Kremlin's stockpile of cyber-weapons
Snowden-esque 'Vulkan' dossier links Moscow firm to FSB, GRU, SRV
Defense Tech Week31 Mar 2023 | 28
Warning: Your wireless networks may leak data thanks to Wi-Fi spec ambiguity
How someone can nab buffered info, by hook or by kr00k
Spotlight on RSA30 Mar 2023 | 15
Gone in 120 seconds: Tesla Model 3 child's play for hackers
In brief Plus OIG finds Uncle Sam fibbed over Login.gov
Research27 Mar 2023 | 37
Cisco kindly reveals proof of concept attacks for flaws in rival Netgear's kit
Maybe this is deserved given the problem's in a hidden telnet service
Research22 Mar 2023 | 24
Refreshed from its holiday, Emotet has gone phishing
Notorious botnet starts spamming again after a three-month pause
Research09 Mar 2023 | 2
Frankenstein malware stitched together from code of others disguised as PyPI package
Crime-as-a-service vendors mix and match components as needed by client
Research03 Mar 2023 | 3
Fast-evolving Prilex POS malware can block contactless payments
... forcing users to insert their cards into less-secure PIN systems
Research03 Feb 2023 | 16
Malvertising attacks are distributing .NET malware loaders
The campaign illustrates another option for miscreants who had relied on Microsoft macros
Research02 Feb 2023 | 7
Microsoft closes another door to attackers by blocking Excel XLL files from the internet
More of them used by baddies since Redmond blocked VBA macros
Research25 Jan 2023 | 6
Microsoft took its macros and went home, so miscreants turned to Windows LNK files
Adapt or die
Research23 Jan 2023 | 6
How to track equipped cars via exploitable e-ink platemaker
Miscreants could have tracked, modified, deleted digital plates
Research10 Jan 2023 | 90
Dridex malware pops back up and turns its attention to macOS
Malware testers spot attempt to attack Macs. But (try not to weep for the bad guys) there are still compatibility issues with MS exe files
Research06 Jan 2023 | 6
Legit Android apps poisoned by sticky 'Zombinder' malware
Sure, go ahead and load APKs instead of using an app store. You won't enjoy the results
Research09 Dec 2022 | 25
Meta links US military to fake social media influence campaigns
Didn't say they were good, though – covert ops apparently got 'little to no engagement' from targets
Research24 Nov 2022 | 20
Still using a discontinued Boa web server? Microsoft warns of supply chain attacks
Flaws in the open-source tool exploited – and India's power grid was a target
Research23 Nov 2022 | 10
WASP malware stings Python developers
Info-stealing trojan hides in malicious PyPI packages on GitHub
Research16 Nov 2022 | 9
Robin Banks crooks back at the table with fresh phish from Russia
Phishing-as-a-service group's toolset now includes ways to get around MFA
Research08 Nov 2022 | 1
All the US midterm-related lies to expect when you're electing
Don't like the results? The election must have been rigged
Research07 Nov 2022 | 149
Oh, look: More malware in the Google Play store
in brief Also, US media hit with JavaScript supply chain attack, while half of govt employees use out-of-date mobile OSes
Research07 Nov 2022 | 25
Double-check demand payment emails from law firms: Convincing fakes surface
Crimson Kingsnake impersonates legit attorneys, fakes email threads from your colleagues in far-reaching BEC campaign
Research04 Nov 2022 | 15
Ordinary web access request or command to malware?
Cranefly group unleashes nasty little technique using Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) logs
Research31 Oct 2022 | 4
This Windows worm evolved into slinging ransomware. Here's how to detect it
Raspberry Robin hits 1,000 orgs in just one month
Research28 Oct 2022 | 12
Purpleurchin cryptocurrency miners spotted scouring free GitHub, Heroku accounts
This is why we can't have nice things
Research27 Oct 2022 | 14
DHL named most-spoofed brand in phishing
With Microsoft and LinkedIn close on shipping giant's heels
Research24 Oct 2022 | 4
Good news, URSNIF no longer a banking trojan. Bad news, it's now a backdoor
And one designed to slip ransomware and data-stealing code onto infected machines
Research21 Oct 2022 | 1
Tear in Microsoft Azure Service Fabric can give attackers full admin privileges
Orca Security disclosed the bug, and older versions remain vulnerable
Research19 Oct 2022 |
Phishing works so well crims won't bother with deepfakes, says Sophos chap
People reveal passwords if you ask nicely, so AI panic is overblown
Research17 Oct 2022 | 15
Criminal multitool LilithBot arrives on malware-as-a-service scene
Bespoke botnet up for grabs from outfit praised for, er, customer service
Research10 Oct 2022 | 1
Loads of PostgreSQL systems are sitting on the internet without SSL encryption
They probably shouldn't be connected in the first place, says database expert
Research07 Oct 2022 | 20
Steganography alert: Backdoor spyware stashed in Microsoft logo
Now that's sticker shock
Research02 Oct 2022 | 27
Microsoft warns of North Korean crew posing as LinkedIn recruiters
State-sponsored ZINC allegedly passes on malware-laden open source apps
Research30 Sep 2022 | 10
How CIA betrayed informants with shoddy front websites built for covert comms
Top tip, don't give your secret login box the HTML form type 'password'
Research29 Sep 2022 | 37
Pentagon is far too tight with its security bug bounties
But overpriced, useless fighter jets? That's something we can get behind
Research29 Sep 2022 | 16
Matrix chat encryption sunk by five now-patched holes
You take the green pill, you'll spend six hours in a 'don't roll your own crypto' debate
Research28 Sep 2022 | 8
The web's cruising at 13 million new and nefarious domain names a month
Or so Akamai is dying to tell us
Research28 Sep 2022 | 10
Want to sneak a RAT into Windows? Buy Quantum Builder on the dark web
Beware what could be hiding in those LNK shortcuts
Research28 Sep 2022 | 4
China's infosec researchers obeyed Beijing and stopped reporting vulns ... or did they?
Report finds increase in anonymous vuln reports
Research27 Sep 2022 | 4
Can reflections in eyeglasses actually leak info from Zoom calls? Here's a study into it
About time someone shone some light onto this
Security17 Sep 2022 | 68
Mandiant links APT42 to Iranian 'terrorist org'
'It's hard to imagine a more dangerous scenario,' Mandiant Intel VP told The Reg
Research07 Sep 2022 | 27
Oh no, that James Webb Space Telescope snap might actually contain malware
Is nothing sacred?
Research01 Sep 2022 | 25
Find a security hole in Google's open source and you could bag a $31,337 reward
Will it be enough to prevent the next software supply-chain attack?
Research30 Aug 2022 | 5
Twitter, Meta kill hundreds of pro-Western troll accounts
It turns out online chicanery aiming to destabilize foreign nations is a two-way street
Research25 Aug 2022 | 38
Microsoft finds critical hole in operating system that for once isn't Windows
Oh wow, get a load of Google using strcpy() all wrong – strcpy! Haha, you'll never ever catch us doing that
Research23 Aug 2022 | 65
Two years on, Apple iOS VPNs still leak IP addresses
Privacy, it's a useful marketing term. *Offer does not apply in China
Research19 Aug 2022 | 18
Software developer cracks Hyundai car security with Google search
Top tip: Your RSA private key should not be copied from a public code tutorial
Research17 Aug 2022 | 81
Mozilla finds 18 of 25 popular reproductive health apps share your data
Scary in post-Roe America, and Poland, and far too many other places
Research17 Aug 2022 | 44
Oh Deere: Farm hardware jailbroken to run Doom
Corn-y demo heralded as right-to-repair win
Research16 Aug 2022 | 51
Student crashes Cloudflare beta party, redirects email, bags a bug bounty
Simple to exploit, enough to pocket $3,000
Research04 Aug 2022 | 8
Post-quantum crypto cracked in an hour with one core of an ancient Xeon
NIST's nifty new algorithm looks like it's in trouble
Research03 Aug 2022 | 83
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