Malware & Exploits

According to researchers from Lumen-based Black Lotus Lab, a new Chaos malware is targeting multiple architectures to spread DDoS, cryptocurrency miners, and install backdoors. The malware is written in Go...

Cisco Talos researchers have uncovered a social engineering malware campaign that exploits a remote code execution flaw in Microsoft Office to apply a Cobalt Strike beacon on compromised victims. The...

Microsoft has announced that two critical vulnerabilities in its Exchange application are being exploited by attackers. The company also explained that more than 22,000 servers worldwide are affected. “​​At this...

A new malware, identified as Metador, is being used by attackers to target telecommunications, internet service providers and universities on multiple continents, according to security researchers at SentinelOne. “The operators...

Supply chain attacks come in all forms and shapes. One example is taking over legitimate accounts to deploy malicious code into widely used libraries. Another is deploying changes during compilation...

Ransomware has become such a common threat over the last few years that companies anticipate coming face to face with an attack at some point. Nonetheless, victims’ lack of adequate...

Many high-level technologies in the IT industry, in fact most of them, are built on top of existing features. Containers are a prime example of this. This lightweight virtualization layer...

Samba, the widely used file sharing tool, has a well-established presence, especially in mixed system environments, where file shares have to be accessed from different operating systems. Like NFS, it...

If you ask a sysadmin what annoys him or her the most about their job, chances are pretty high that you’ll get, in no particular order, answers like “users”, “faulty...

If you’re interested in Linux security, kernel vulnerabilities or simply have some spare time to run some tests, this article is for you. In it, we provide an updated version...