Eduard Kovacs

UPDATED. A researcher received $10,000 from Facebook after uncovering a serious vulnerability and what appeared to be a malicious web shell left behind by...

State-sponsored threat actors in Asia have been leveraging a new technique to deliver remote access Trojans (RATs) without being detected by security products.

Researchers have come across a new banking Trojan that appears to borrow code from the notorious Zeus.Dubbed Panda Banker, the threat was discovered in...

Cisco has released software updates to patch several critical and high severity denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities in the company’s Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) products.

Two individuals suspected of developing and distributing the notorious SpyEye Trojan have been sentenced to a combined 24 years and six months in prison,...

FIN6 Hackers Deployed Malware on Thousands of Retail and Hospitality Point-of-Sale SystemsResearchers have been monitoring the activities of a cybercriminal group that appears to...

Security researcher Patrick Wardle has been looking at ways to generically detect ransomware attacks on Mac OS X systems and he has developed a...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the U.S. Department of Justice in hopes of obtaining information on secret court...

Researchers at FireEye have come across a piece of malware that steals payment card data from point-of-sale (PoS) systems and sends it back to...

Data breaches affecting corporate and internal networks increased considerably in 2015 compared to the previous year, according to the 2016 Global Security Report published...

An advanced persistent threat (APT) actor responsible for stealing sensitive information from high profile targets in India leveraged Android and BlackBerry spyware in its...

Google has teamed up with the University of California, Berkeley to conduct a study on the effectiveness of notifications sent out by the company...

Researchers at Arbor Networks’ Security Engineering and Response Team (ASERT) have identified what they believe to be a tool used in advanced persistent threat...

ICS-CERT has published advisories detailing several vulnerabilities in ICS products from Accuenergy, Ecava and Sierra Wireless, including issues that have been rated “high severity.”

IBM Security has warned WordPress website administrators about a sharp increase in the number of attacks leveraging a variant of a PHP webshell called...

Researchers at Cisco have identified millions of machines that could become infected with file-encrypting ransomware due to out-of-date software.Ransomware attacks aimed at organizations have...

A DNS configuration issue on a Western Digital (WD) server supporting the company's My Cloud NAS products could have been exploited by malicious actors...

VMware released updates for several of its products on Thursday to address a critical vulnerability.The VMware Client Integration Plugin (CIP) provides access to a...

Dmitry Fedotov, the Russian national who created the now-defunct Blackhole exploit kit, was sentenced this week by a Moscow court to seven years in...

Apple will no longer release security updates for the Windows version of QuickTime, leaving two recently-discovered remote code execution vulnerabilities unpatched.The announcement that QuickTime...