One cryptography expert said that ‘serious flaws’ in the way Samsung phones encrypt sensitive material, as revealed by academics, are ’embarrassingly bad.’
Attackers are sending email blasts with malware links in embedded PDFs as a way to evade email filters, lying about having fictional “video evidence.”
Nothing like zombie campaigns: WannaCry’s old as dirt, and GandCrab threw in the towel years ago. They’re on auto-pilot at this point, researchers say.
The overall number of attacks on mobile users is down, but they’re getting slicker, both in terms of malware functionality and vectors, researchers say.
The Conti gang breached the cookware giant’s network, prepping thousands of employees’ personal data for consumption by cybercrooks.
Researchers discovered a new, modular banking trojan with ties to Cerberus and Alien that has the capability to become a much larger threat than it is now.
Attackers took advantage of a smart-contract migration to swindle 17 users.
Adobe updated its recent out-of-band security advisory to add another critical bug, while researchers put out a PoC for the one it emergency-fixed last weekend.
An oversight in a WordPress plug-in exposes PII and authentication data to malicious insiders.
Researchers said a Jan. 27 attack that aired footage of opposition leaders calling for assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader was a clumsy and unsophisticated wiper attack.