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Bad Rabbit: New Ransomware Attack Rapidly Spreading Across Europe

A new widespread ransomware attack is spreading like wildfire around Europe and has already affected over 200 major organisations, primarily in Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and Germany, in the past few hours.

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DUHK Attack Lets Hackers Recover Encryption Key Used in VPNs & Web Sessions

DUHK — Don't Use Hard-coded Keys — is a new 'non-trivial' cryptographic implementation vulnerability that could allow attackers to recover encryption keys that secure VPN connections and web browsing sessions.

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Kaspersky Opens Antivirus Source Code for Independent Review to Rebuild Trust

Kaspersky Lab — We have nothing to hide!

Russia-based Antivirus firm hits back with what it calls a "comprehensive transparency initiative," to allow independent third-party review of its source code and internal processes to win back the trust of customers and infosec community.

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Google Play Store Launches Bug Bounty Program to Protect Popular Android Apps

Better late than never.

Google has finally launched a bug bounty program for Android apps on Google Play Store, inviting security researchers to find and report vulnerabilities in some of the most popular Android apps.

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Unpatched Microsoft Word DDE Exploit Being Used In Widespread Malware Attacks

Last week we reported how hackers could leveraging an old Microsoft Office feature called Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE), to perform malicious code execution on the targeted device without requiring Macros enabled or memory corruption.

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New Rapidly-Growing IoT Botnet Threatens to Take Down the Internet

Just a year after Mirai—biggest IoT-based malware that caused vast Internet outages by launching massive DDoS attacks—completed its first anniversary, security researchers are now warning of a brand new rapidly growing IoT botnet.

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Android to get DNS over TLS

No doubt your Internet Service Provides (ISPs), or network-level hackers cannot spy on https communications.

But do you know — ISPs can still see all of your DNS requests, allowing them to know what websites you visit.

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Update your iPhone today to avoid hack via Wi-Fi

Considering an iPhone update? You now have another reason to upgrade to the recently released iOS 11.

A google researcher has discovered a security vulnerability (CVE-2017-11120) in iOS 10 and earlier which is also found in other broadcom wi-fi chip devices.

Gal Beniamini, a security researcher with Google Project Zero, found similar vulnerabilities in the Broadcom WiFi SoC (Software-on-Chip) and BroadPwn vulnerability disclosed by an Exodus Intelligence researcher Nitay Artenstein...

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