Researchers Hack WPA 3 Again The WiFi Alliance has always keep their documents secret. The only way that you even get a copy of the specs is to become a member and that will cost you $5k-$20k a year, depending on your role. The same team that reported the bugs called Dragonblood found these new […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Asus Was Not Alone I wrote about the Asus supply chain attack in March (search for Asus in the blog search box). Attackers, somehow, compromised the development environment, injected malware and allowed the system to compile, digitally sign and distribute it through the software update process. Hundreds of thousands of clients were infected as a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]U.S. Trains UAE Spies to Spy on Americans Reuters has written an expose on how the State Department granted a U.S. Company an ITAR license to train UAE spies on hacking. The plan, which got out of control, what to constraint the UAE spies, but once they were trained, they fired their U.S. trainers and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Cisco has released an advisory that a half million consumer and small business routers and growing have been infected with malware dubbed VPNFilter. The malware was detected infecting routers from: Linksys MikroTik Netgear TP-Link and QNap storage devices The researchers have not figured out a test that a consumer or small business can use to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Dell SecureWorks, the counter threat service that Dell bought in 2011, is reporting on a new outbreak of the malware family STEGOLOADER, which has a different M.O., making it hard to detect. All that persists on the machine in a small loader that downloads the core module. This can be changed easily and might even […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]After my last post, a new article came out about the Backoff malware. The article, quoting the US Department of Homeland Security, said that over a thousand small, medium and enterprise U.S. businesses have been compromised by the Backoff malware package. Backoff is fairly new – first seen last year – and scrapes the memory […]
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