Author name: ravernzord

Chappell, 19, from Heaton Moor, Stockport, launched 2,000 DDoS attacks and aided several others as part of the vDos “booter” service. The site posed as a server stress-testing service but in fact sold its computing power to customers who wanted to launch DDoS attacks. Read more

Google is urging more manufacturers to enable a new security feature in Android Oreo that detects if a device has been downgraded to an earlier version of the OS. Read more

omanian authorities have arrested three suspects for spreading a form of ransomware called Curve-Tor-Bitcoin Locker (CTB-Locker) throughout Europe. Two members of the same criminal group have been arrested for distributing Cerber ransomware within the United States. Read more

The search for the perimeter in cloud security, and the debate over whether there should actually be such a thing in that endeavor, leaves several open questions, all of which testify to the fact that we’re not ready for prime time with this. Here are just three: Read more

Security researchers are warning of a new spam campaign targeting Brazilian institutions that contain Compiled HTML file attachments that are used to deliver a banking Trojan. Read more

Security researchers from Kaspersky have discovered a new malware that is targeting Android phones. This malware, called as Loapi, is a harmful piece of code that can execute five separate malicious actions including mining the Monero cryptocurrency, making DDoS attacks, bombarding infected users with continuous ads, redirecting web traffic, transmitting text messages, and downloading and

This man took a 365 day leave from his job or technically, he left his job to pursue his hacking mission. The mission being, hacking into various platforms, websites, softwares just to see vulnerabilities. Read more

Researchers from German pen-testing firm SYSS report that Windows 10 systems that have not yet received the recent Fall Creators Update are vulnerable to a “simple spoofing attack using a modified printed photo of an authorized person”. The attack works against multiple versions of Windows 10 and different hardware. Read more

Security researchers from Pradeo (cybersecurity company) have recognized that the popular spin app on Play Store is sending different apps data on an Android device to a server which is located in China and is making quite a few unfavorable duties than what it is meant to do. Read more

Obama openly called on the FCC to reclassify broadband providers as “Title II” public carriers and force the rules in November 2014, three months before the FCC election did just that. But an inquiry last year by the FCC’s objective Inspector General’s (IG) office found “no indication” of improper use of pressure by the White