Hacking News

A Mac malware that can silently, remotely control a vulnerable computer and steal passwords from a user’s keychain has gone largely unnoticed by antivirus makers for two years — even though the code is readily available to download. Read more

These infected websites allowed hackers to mine cryptocurrencies by hacking anyone who visited these infected sites. This was done by using Coinhive, and was said to be a successful attack, however reports have something else to say. Read more

Esteves offered customers two encryption tools. Both were designed to help hackers evade detected by encrypting their code. Cryptex Lite cost just £5 per month while Cryptex Reborn cost £60 for a lifetime licence. Esteves started selling the tools back in 2011 and continuously updated them until he was caught. Read more

Heartland Payment Systems: remember that decade-old breach? What was then the sixth-largest payments processor in the US announced back in 2009 that its processing systems had been breached the year before. Within days, it had been classified as the biggest ever criminal breach of card data. Read more

The acknowledgment, buried at the bottom of a central bank report on digital thefts in the Russian banking division, is the latest in a string of tried and successful cyber heists using fraudulent wire-transfer requests. Read more

As a result, it is imperative that U.S. governments become better at defending their networks, Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founder and chief technology officer at CrowdStrike told News at the Munich Security Conference. Read more

Per Intel’s filing, 30 of the trails are proposed consumer class-action suits from users challenging to be harmed by the flaws. While Meltdown has practical workarounds, they begin with some performance cost. Workarounds for Spectre are more challenging and thus can harm system performance. Read more

The site published a notice to their users on Friday, informing them about the attack while posting that the hackers made it off with approximately 17 million units of the digital currency Nano (XRB), the coin which was previously known as RaiBlocks. Read more

Typically, inbox-based attacks that include malicious Microsoft Office attachments require adversaries to trick users into enabling macros. But researchers say they have identified a new malicious email campaign that uses booby-trapped Office attachments that are macro-free. Read more

Apple said it is working on a fix for the latest text bomb bug that crashes a number of iOS and Mac apps that display specific Telugu language characters. The bug, first reported by Italian Blog Mobile World, impacts a wide range of Apple apps running on iOS and macOS. Read more