Hacking News

The group behind Sanny malware attacks has made significant changes to the way it delivers their payload. According to new research by FireEye, the attackers have upgraded their delivery techniques when it comes to planting malware on systems via document attachments sent as part of spam and phishing campaigns. Read more

A new type of ransomware which tries to uninstall security software on victim PCs has been discovered in the wild. The ransomware, dubbed AVCrypt, was first discovered by MalwareHunterTeam and later analyzed by security professionals at Bleeping Computer. Read more

The United States Department of Justice announced charges against nine Iranians accused of stealing private data from U.S. universities, private companies and U.S. government agencies. Read more

The city of Atlanta is currently being targeted in a ransomware attack impacting several of its departments and crippling government websites that process payments and relay court information. Read more

Based on the study of data from 400 billion emails and 18 million websites, Microsoft’s Security Intelligence Report declares Denmark as a country that falls victim to the fewest cyber attacks. Read more

As cryptocurrency-mining malware becomes more popular among cybercriminals, they’re altering their tactics in order to increase the chances of making as much money as possible from exploited systems — now even going as far as killing other cryptojacking malware that has previously compromised the same servers. Read more

Black Hat Asia Wearable devices – and anything that relies on an app to help with configuration – has at least three attack surfaces and your existing secure development lifecycle probably isn’t going to cope with the complexity that creates. Read more

Apple focuses very strongly on their user’s privacy and data security and focuses on it strongly, however, iOS might have a backdoor through which your iPhone has the possibility of being hacked. Read more

Android malware has been discovered that is attacking various Android models and stealing their data. This malware has been infecting devices more and more; there have been up to 40 devices affected via this virus though, security investigators believe that the real number of infected devices is greater than that. Read more

Camelot, The National Lottery, warned all 10.5 million users who participate online to try their luck at lottery draws to change their account credentials. One of UK’s biggest platforms is said to have been a target for a while now as the company had given a warning in November 2016 as well. Read more