A patch was turned into an exploit and the exploit was turned into… why, CRYPTOCOINS, of course! Fortunately, there’s an easy fix.
Tag Archives: Exploit
Trends in malware – ransomware, cryptojacking, what next? [PODCAST]
Catch up with Day 3 of our Security SOS Week – here’s the third episode of our week-long online security summit.
Serious Security: How three minor bugs make one major exploit
In this story, three webcam bugs that weren’t critical one-by-one could be combined into an exploit giving total device takeover.
How to find lost USB drives (even if you don’t want to) [PODCAST]
Here’s the latest Naked Security podcast – enjoy!
RedHat admins, patch now – don’t let your servers get pwned!
A command injection bug in Red Hat’s DHCP client could allow an attacker to run any command on your computer. As root.
Critical bug in 7-Zip – make sure you’re up to date!
Uninitialised variables and no Address Space Layout Randomisation led to an exploitable vulnerability…
Mysterious “double kill” IE zero-day allegedly in the wild
Chinese security company announces Internet Explorer zero-day exploit that’s triggered by Word. So far… that’s all she wrote.
Apple updates iMovie and iWork – but the iWork fixes are more than cosmetic
Get ready! We’re about to run the gauntlet of Mactivists, and we’d love you to join us. (Only kidding. There are patches. You want them.)
You make your PRIVATE key PUBLIC, right? [Chet Chat Podcast 218]
Here’s the latest episode of our weekly security podcast. Enjoy!
The malicious side of online ads – how unpatched servers hurt us all
SophosLabs looked behind a malvertising campaign from September 2015, and found servers that hadn’t been patched for two years or more.