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Macy's, an American department store chain, stated that its customers have been hit by an attack that affected countless numbers of credit cards. The retailer stated that unknown intruders planted a card-stealing malware script on its payment site and...
The Louisiana state government fell victim to a ransomware attack again. John Bel Edwards, Governor of Louisiana, revealed that a ransomware infection had taken down the government’s IT systems and websites. John Bel Edwards tweeted details about the attack, saying...
Tarun Wig is a young entrepreneur with over a decade of industry experience. He’s the co-founder of Innefu Labs and his expertise lies in innovating cutting edge technologies to assist law enforcement agencies and protect users as well as...
The government of Australia recently released a draft Code of Practice for securing the Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The government stated the draft, Voluntary Code of Practice: Securing the Internet of Things for Consumers, is under public consultation...
No this isn’t just another Disney Sci-fi cartoon or movie narrative. Disney plus has been hacked in the real world. After months of anticipation, Disney launched its Netflix competitor Disney Plus (better known as Disney+) on November 12, 2019...
Phineas Fisher, a popular vigilante hacker recently announced a new kind of bug bounty program “Hacktivist Bug Hunting Program” to reward hackers who do public interest hacks and data leaks. In his new manifesto, the hacker stated that he will...
Holidays are near and we don’t have time to buy gifts. What do we do? Shop online. Unfortunately, as online shopping continues to grow, so does typosquatting/URL Hijacking and targeting users through malicious fake domains. Venafi, a cybersecurity software...

RAT Attack: Double Whammy

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A new malware recently surfaced with a very low detection rate and capability of delivering multiple Trojans to infect computers. The researchers from Fortinet found a sample file of a dropper that was flagged suspicious. Upon research, it was...
A recent research conducted by Peleg Hadar, a Security Researcher at SafeBreach Labs, exposed a local code execution vulnerability in Symantec’s Endpoint Protection service. As per Hadar, this vulnerability allowed an attacker “to bypass Symantec’s self-defense mechanism and perform...
In his role as an executive vice president/managing director in BCW’s New York Public Affairs & Crisis practice, Michael Estevez advises clients on crisis communications, issues management, litigation communications, and cybersecurity. Michael’s cybersecurity and privacy communications experience includes engagements...