Players of the popular first person shooter Counter Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO) got more than they bargained for if they looked to download an app which allows users to cheat. The app modified to operate on macOS would also download and install a cryptocurrency miner unbeknownst to the cheater
With Kaspersky Labs releasing their malware report focussing on the second quarter of this year as well as research conducted by Cisco and Umbrella there seems to be a marked rise in DDoS attacks. Many of these attacks seem to be originating in Southeast Asia, with many of the attacks targeting busi
Hackers are continually innovating and becoming fundamentally sneakier in how they are targeting business. In the NotPetya attack earlier this year we saw hackers dropping malicious code into legitimate accounting software updates. Another instance of corrupting software update mechanisms has again
In a report compiled by researchers at FireEye, it appears it is not only cyber criminals using the leaked NSA tool commonly referred to as EternalBlue. Many will recognise the name as it is the vulnerability (CVE-2017-0143) that assisted in making the WannaCry and NotPetya attacks earlier this year
With the recent spate of data breaches and leaks of arguably HBO’s most popular television program, Game of Thrones, one can assume many of the company’s executives wish they could return to an era with no internet. Hacking of the entertainment industry appears to be on the rise and placing the rele
Marcus Hutchins, a security researcher who also goes by the name MalwareTech, made headlines in May as the person who discovered, almost accidentally, the inbuilt killswitch in the WannaCry ransomware which caught the world unawares. Fast forward to August and the same person hailed as a hero who pr
With WannaCry and Petya attacks slowing down it was only a matter of time till the lessons learned from these attacks would be used by other cyber criminals. The creators of TrickBot have most certainly learnt how to increase the propagation exponentially of the malware using the lessons learnt from
With the arrest of Alexander Vinnick, a 38-year-old Russian who was believed to be one the creators and operators of BTC-e on money laundering charges. The total believed to be laundered through the platform totals over 4 Billion USD. The laundered funds are believed to be in conjunction with cyber-
Google’s Android security team have discovered and new and immensely powerful spyware termed Lippizan. Google claims the spyware was created by Equus Group, an Israeli based company who by their own account specializes in the development of “…of tailor made innovative solutions for law enforcement,
On Friday, 21 July 2017, a 29-year-old man pleaded guilty to hijacking over 900,000 routers from Deutsche Telekom’s network towards the end of 2016. The attack which leveraged a customized version of the Mirai malware according to the hacker accidentally denied many Germans and German companies with