Of late, Trend Micro repaired a critical remote code execution flaw in its Anti-Threat Toolkit (ATTK). The Trend Micro ATTK tool lets users carry out forensic images of their system and clean rootkit, ransomware, MBR and other types of malware infections. Researcher John Page revealed that attackers can misuse ATTK Continue Reading
VPN providers TorGuard and NordVPN have answered reports that their systems have been violated, with both accusing a third-party service provider for the incident. Cyberthieves have trickled private RSA keys and information on configuration files that were pinched from a NordVPN server last year. As many as three private keys seem to Continue Reading
In yet another supply chain effort, an unidentified malicious actor managed to access Avast’s network, the security company announced on Monday. Aimed at the end of September, the interference involved the use of a momentary VPN profile that had been kept alive though it did not have two-factor verification enabled. Continue Reading
The popular UC Browser apps, with a whopping 600 million Play Store installs, uncovered their users to man-in-the-middle (MiTM) from a third-party server over vulnerable channels. Available from the Google Play Store, UC Browser reportedly made some highly dubious moves once downloaded, many of which go against Google’s specified app Continue Reading
Acronym for Distributed Denial of Service, DDoS is a grave threat to companies and businesses as it can be quite unsettling. According to a report, DDoS activity picked up momentum by 80% in each of the last couple of years with 35% of those attacks in 2015 targeting software-as-service, IT services, Continue Reading
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