Eduard Kovacs

The RIG exploit kit recently stopped distributing Tofsee and cybercriminals have decided to use the botnet’s own spamming capabilities to deliver the malware, Cisco’s...

Companies are spending millions on bug bounty programs whose goal is to identify vulnerabilities, but it might be more efficient to take a proactive...

A member of the Syrian Electronic Army hacker group arrested earlier this year in Germany has pleaded guilty to hacking and extortion charges before...

Two Russia-linked threat groups have been targeting citizen journalists investigating Moscow’s involvement in the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in July 2014 as...

An investigation conducted into the two Yahoo security incidents disclosed recently revealed the existence of a connection and led researchers to believe that the...

A firmware update released by Siemens this month for some of its industrial network security products fixes a vulnerability that could expose potentially sensitive...

Facebook announced on Tuesday the availability of an osquery version that can be used by security teams to quickly identify and analyze threats on...

Updates released this week by the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) for the DNS software BIND address two vulnerabilities, including a new high-severity issue that...

An extensive analysis of the hybrid Trojan dubbed GozNym has allowed Cisco researchers to reverse engineer its domain generation algorithm (DGA) and start sinkholing...

Google has released new tools and documentation designed to help developers mitigate cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks using the Content Security Policy (CSP) standard.

The hosting provider OVH continues to be targeted by massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks powered by a large botnet capable of generating significant attack...

Following the discovery of several major problems, Mozilla has proposed that certificates issued by Chinese certificate authority (CA) WoSign and its subsidiary StartCom be...

Researchers at Palo Alto Networks have come across an OS X Trojan they believe has been used by a notorious Russia-linked cyber espionage group...

Several class actions have been filed against Yahoo in California and Illinois over the recently disclosed data breach that affected at least 500 million...

A fix included in the OpenSSL updates released last week introduced a critical vulnerability that could potentially lead to arbitrary code execution, the OpenSSL...

The U.K. National Crime Agency (NCA) announced last week that one of the members of an international cybercrime group has been given a two-year...

Microsoft has decided to remove the Windows Journal application from its operating systems due to the discovery of several vulnerabilities that can be exploited...

Banks are improving ATM authentication mechanisms in an effort to prevent fraud, but cybercriminals have already started developing the tools and techniques they need...

A report published this week by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) warns about the misuse of IP addresses by police and courts, and makes...

OVH, one of the world’s largest hosting companies, reported on Thursday that its systems were hit by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that reached nearly...