LokiBot is silently causing harm to Android devices that it has infected without user knowledge since 2016. It is a trojan designed to steal information from the user, an espionage-like software causing users to lose their login credentials for various web services. The people behind it are very motivated, given that they continue to “improve”

Accessibility and commoditization of computing devices brought both advantages and disadvantages for the public. The smart devices became much more affordable, while manufacturers are motivated to release new devices faster than the market can actually afford. Enterprises are very much affected by these dynamics, given that they have allowed BYOD (Bring Your Own Devices) within

Bitcoin (BTC) has been with us since January 3, 2019, and since then the blockchain cryptocurrency that started the craze has become a very difficult mine. Those that came early to support BTC is slowly but surely migrating to other cryptocurrency. One of them is Kevin Pham, a long time voice in the promotion of

Hackergroup Gnosticplayers had done it again, their recent successful campaigns against 8 websites, namely: Strong Kingdoms, petflow, YouNow, Houzz, Roll20, ixigo, and Ge.tt. These attacks created a huge supply of user credentials that are now available for sale in the Dark Web. At a recent estimate, around 126 million accounts are being offered to Dark

We are recommending for quite a while for companies serious with their IT security to subject itself to a thorough penetration testing. Pen test can be done internally by knowledgeable IT staff, or the company can hire an external pen testing team. Members of pen test teams are passionable when it comes to detecting weaknesses

Since cryptojacking malware came into the scene, its favorite cryptocurrency to mine at the expense of its victims is Monero. This is due to the simplicity of mining XMR compared to Bitcoin (BTC), where stolen GPU and CPU cycles can be used for resolving hashes. Recently, Check Point has once again discovered the growing number

The recent attacks against mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand captures the attention of the world. Copies of the video footage of the actual event were spreading like wildfire in social media. The terrorists themselves launched a live video of the shooting incident that killed at least 50 people from two mosques. According to the New

Beijing is the favorite whipping boy of the Western powers when it comes to being accused of abusing its citizens, causing harm for the rest of the world through its espionage campaigns and maintaining its own army of blackhat elite hackers. However, the reality is China is as vulnerable a country to typical cyber attacks

Critical vulnerability under CVE-2019-0797 has been recently patched by Microsoft in order to lessen the chances of two Advanced Persistent Threat groups, SandCat, and FruityArmor from taking advantage of it. The former zero-day exploit was being exploited by the two groups extensively, with many of their victims unaware of it. This is given since only

When Windows 10 was first introduced in 2015, the roll-out was not smooth sailing, but instead became a center of controversy for an operating system released by Redmond. It was accused of being an information collection tool for Microsoft, forced obsolescence of older version of Windows since DirectX 12 API is a Windows 10 exclusive