Company was originally infected in September 2014. By Dan Raywood A cyber-attack targeted at the Swiss defense contractor RUAG used malware from the Turla family, which had no rootkit functionality,…
Month: May 2016
A recently patched Flash Player exploit is being used in widespread attacks
An exploit for the previously zero-day CVE-2016-4117 vulnerability is now in the Magnitude exploit kit. By Lucian Constantin It took hackers less than two weeks to integrate a recently patched…
Password reuse bot steals creds from weak sites, logs in to banks
If your Netflix password is your banking password, you’ll get what you deserve. By Darren Pauli The perils of password re-use have been laid bare with the discovery of a…
Mumsnet hacking: Haslemere teenager faces cyber attack charges
A teenager has been charged with a hacking attack on Mumsnet, which caused the parenting site to reset its 7.7 million members’ passwords. David Buchanan, 18, of Haslemere, Surrey, faces…
Bank of England in Swift Security Warning
Warning from Bank of England. By Phil Muncaster The Bank of England has told UK banks they need to perform compliance checks to ensure theyre following cybersecurity best practice following…
Criminal defendants demand to see FBI's secret hacking tool
Courts are facing a decision: Expose the FBI’s techniques or allow defendants to see the evidence against them. By Grant Gross A secret FBI hacking tool, used to compromise the…