Author: Giedrius Majauskas

On 26 of March, researchers from Talos published an informative article, revealing a new malware family. The discovery was made during a recent Incident Response (IR) engagement. Specialists figured out that a malware dubbed GoScanSSH targeted SSH servers which were exposed to the Internet. The analysis of GoScanSSH structure revealed that the malware is written … Continued

According to law enforcement agencies, a criminal mastermind, the leader of the crime gang dubbed Carbanak/Cobalt, has been caught by the police in Spain. The gang of hackers targeted people from over 40 countries, and had ended up affecting approximately one hundred financial institutions worldwide. What is the Carbanak gang? Europol stated that the first … Continued

Recently, SamSam ransomware virus resurfaced and targeted The Colorado Department of Transportation. This time, the virus returns once again to deliver another blow against the City of Atlanta and its IT systems. While Colorado explained that they were able to avoid long-term repercussions of the cyber attack, the unauthorized access in Atlanda lead to online … Continued

Facebook won’t be able to successfully shake off the scandalous breach of information, when confidential information of more than 50 million members was leaked to a political data collecting firm. The discovered indecencies triggered a general public outrage, and lawmakers are not far behind. Law enforcement agencies in America are demanding that thorough investigations would … Continued

It is natural to believe that a new phone is supposed to be safe, uncluttered, free from hundreds of pictures and applications. There are some apps that are pre-installed into phones, but they could not possibly be harmful if they were added by legitimate manufacturers, right? While specialists do observe the pre-installed programs, it appears … Continued

A new threat to your wallet has been detected. Researchers have reported a new point of sale (PoS) malware dubbed as PinkKite. If you are not familiar with the PoS cyber attacks, they are meant to steal your credit card information by reading the device memory from the retail checkout point of sale system. Even … Continued

Google has decided to alter its Financial services policy. In June of 2018, the changes will officially become valid and the majority of crypto-currency related ads will be unwelcome. This decision is understandable as the obsession of crypto-currencies has reached a boiling point, and millions of users have suffered from the decrease of Bitcoin (or … Continued

Some spam campaigns are more persistent than others. Over the years, disturbing numbers of deceptive email letters reach users, and these people end up on the verge of becoming infected. It is presumable that spam messages would originate from various hackers, various places and for various reasons. However, a report from McAFee suggests that some … Continued

Kaspersky Lab has published a shocking revelation of another government-support (not confirmed) spying tactic. Dubbed Slingshot malware, it is a well calculated malicious loader. Researchers have identified the changes malware does to an infected operating system: the virus replaces a legitimate Windows library “scesrv.dll” with an identical malicious version. While “scesrv.dll” was the most commonly … Continued

Just a few days ago, a world-record-breaking cyber attack against GitHub took place. However, this new achievement was surpassed rather quickly: now, a 1.7 Tbps attack against an unnamed US company holds the world record for the strongest DDoS attack. Without any doubts, other companies expressed concerns over their own security and wondered whether hackers … Continued

One year ago, a group called “Shadow Brokers” broke the Internet with a tranche of stolen NSA hacking tools. It was an exciting discovery for specialists to examine and to find out more about the secret activities NSA commences. There have been more than a few curious cases revealed from the stolen data, but a … Continued

Crypto-currencies have become a huge deal for people with big dreams of earning money without having to find a job. Tracking exchange rates and investigating money in a very fragile system appears to be a safer method for them. However, many specialists have anticipated the huge drop for Bitcoins, and are constantly reminding users that … Continued

The biggest distributed-denial-of-service (DDos) attack was considered to be the attack against Dyn in 2016. A huge game-changer took place last week, after hackers committed a severe cyber crime. The target was GitHub: a very popular service, visited by millions of people daily. It is a fact that this software development platform has been a … Continued