Oct 25, 2016 | Malware and Exploits
Chinese electronic firm XiongMai will recall some of its IoT devices, after claims that they were used to launch a massive denial-of-service attack. The distributed denial-of-service attack targeted domain name service Dyn, who confirmed this weekend in a statement that it was hit by a “sophisticated attack”.
Sep 2, 2016 | General Security, Malware and Exploits
A week ago, Apple pushed out a small but critical security patch for iOS. That update was iOS 9.3.5, and it fixed a trifecta of previously unknown vulnerabilities that had allegedly been combined to produce a megaexploit. (If you have an iDevice, go to Settings |...
Aug 30, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches, General Security, Malware and Exploits
Today we learned that two separate hotel chains are warning their customers that they have suffered point-of-sale malware infections that compromised customers’ payment card data. Both chains say they were alerted to related card fraud by the U.S. Secret Service...
Aug 25, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Malware and Exploits
Today Apple released iOS 9.3.5, an essential update for all iOS devices, meaning iPhones, iPads and iPods. Apple didn’t add any new features as part of this software update, but instead fixed at least one, possibly 3 major security vulnerabilities have been...
Aug 19, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches, Malware and Exploits
On July 5, 2016, KrebsOnSecurity reached out to Bellevue, Wash., based Eddie Bauer after hearing from several sources who work in fighting fraud at U.S. financial institutions. All of those sources said they’d identified a pattern of fraud on customer cards that had...
Aug 16, 2016 | Malware and Exploits
Security expert Vesselin Bontchev has scanned the WikiLeaks data-dump from Turkey’s ruling political party (AKP) and found at least 80 different malware strains contained within the emails. At Bontchev’s Github page, he published a neutered list of emails (the...
