More than 90 Arrested in Blackshades RAT Takedown
The FBI, Justice Department and law enforcement in 19 countries announced the takedown of the Blackshades operation, responsible for dissemination of the Blackshades RAT.
Michael Mimoso
Malvertising Redirecting to Microsoft Silverlight Exploits
Researchers at Cisco spotted a recent malvertising campaign where victims were redirected by ads on the AppNexus network to sites hosting the Angler Exploit Kit and exploits against Silverlight vulnerabilities.
Facebook Takes Tougher Stand Against BREACH Attack
Facebook disclosed today how it has beefed up cross-site request forgery (CSRF) tokens in order to ward off the BREACH attack.
Rapid7 today disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities in an enterprise-grade load balancer from Brocade and home DSL routers and cable modems that allow a hacker to steal authentication data from the SNMP community string.
The EFF’s annual Who Has Your Back? report praises Apple and Yahoo for its gains in transparency and fighting for users’ privacy and civil liberties, while it singles out Snapchat for its shortcomings.
Al Qaeda’s choice to develop homegrown encryption, experts say, likely gives U.S. intelligence efforts a leg up against the terrorist organization.
The IETF released RFC7258 which defines pervasive monitoring of Internet traffic and surveillance of online activity as an attack to be mitigated in all future IETF protocols.
The peer-to-peer version of Zeus was especially busy in the first quarter with infections reported by banks in 10 countries that previously had eluded Zeus’ reach.
Patches are available for buffer overflow bugs in Yokogawa production control software. Public exploits are available for the vulnerabilities, as well as a Metasploit module.
BlackBerry released an advisory today that its updates are available for its products affected by the Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability.
