Backdoors Found Leveraging Pastebin
Instead of relying on their own sites to host malware, hackers are using a series of strings of malicious backdoor code on Pastebin sites and calling upon it to execute malware.
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"Distrust and caution are the parents of security" - Benjamin Franklin
Bitcoin Exchange Bitstamp Offline Following Apparent Compromise
Bitstamp, a Bitcoin exchange based in the United Kingdom, remains offline this morning following what appears to have been a compromise over the weekend.
Google Blacklists WordPress Sites Peddling SoakSoak Malware
Up to 100,000 sites hosted on WordPress may be vulnerable to new campaign that’s pushing malware and multiple exploit kits to the browser.
Yik Yak, an application that allows users to share purportedly anonymous status updates with others near them, has fixed a critical privacy vulnerability in the iOS version of its app.
VMware released patches late last week to fix several vulnerabilities, including a cross-site scripting issue, in one of its server virtualization platforms.
Apple has pulled a batch of security updates for Safari that it initially released yesterday.
As expected, the Sony breach has apparently unearthed more than just unreleased movies: A slew of sensitive employee information is now making the rounds online.
Officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I.) and Mandiant have begun to investigate the Sony Pictures breach.
The popular classified website Craigslist is back online today following a DNS attack that forced it offline for several hours Sunday evening.
A new coalition, Let’s Encrypt, announced today they will grant free HTTPS certificates to any site that needs one in 2015.
