Zeljka Zorz

Cisco plugs two Cloud Services Platform system compromise flaws
Cisco has patched two serious vulnerabilities in Cisco Cloud Services Platform 2100, both of which could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a targeted …

Spam is once again on the rise
Spam volume is back to mid-2010 heights, and Cisco Talos researchers say that the Necurs botnet is partly to blame. “Many of the host IPs sending Necurs’ spam have …

UK online banking customers are back on fraudsters’ radar
Hot on the heels of the Ramnit Trojan delivery campaign targeting customers of six UK banks comes one delivering the Qadars Trojan. The targets, again, are customers of UK …

Malicious torrents management tool uncovered
InfoArmor researchers have uncovered Raum, a tool that is used by Eastern European organized crime group “Black Team” to deliver malware to users through malicious …

Chinese researchers hijack Tesla cars from afar
Tesla car owners are urged to update their car’s firmware to the latest version available, as it fixes security vulnerabilities that can be exploited remotely to take …

880,000 users exposed in MoDaCo data breach
Subscribers of UK-based MoDaCo, a forum specialising in smartphone news and reviews, have been unpleasantly surprised by notifications that the site and their account have …

UK: Financial fraud soars
More than 1 million incidents of financial fraud – payment card, remote banking and cheque fraud – occurred in the first six months of 2016, according to official …

HDDCryptor ransomware uses open source tools to thoroughly own systems
HDDCryptor (aka Mamba) is a particularly destructive piece of ransomware that encrypts files in mounted drives and network shares, locks the computers’ hard disk, and …

Xiaomi smartphones come equipped with backdoor
When you buy a new mobile device with certain apps already pre-installed on, you’re effectively forced to trust that the device maker or reseller (depending on who …

Mobile users actively spammed from compromised iCloud accounts
Spammers have been compromising North American Apple users’ iCloud accounts, and using them to send spammy text messages to mobile users in China. The messages advertise …

BENIGNCERTAIN-like flaw affects various Cisco networking devices
The leaking of BENIGNCERTAIN, an NSA exploit targeting a vulnerability in legacy Cisco PIX firewalls that allows attackers to eavesdrop on VPN traffic, has spurred Cisco to …

ICS-CERT warns of remotely exploitable power meter flaws
Two remotely exploitable vulnerabilities, one of which can lead to remote code execution, have been found in Schneider Electric’s ION Power Meter products and FENIKS PRO Elnet …
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