An alarming security vulnerability has been discovered in several models of Android smartphones manufactured by Google, Samsung, and others that could allow malicious apps to secretly take pictures and record videos even when they don’t have specific device permissions to do so.Read More
The recent controversies surrounding the WhatsApp hacking haven’t yet settled, and the world’s most popular messaging platform could be in the choppy waters once again.Read More
Nemty ransomware is a crypto-malware most variants of witch are not decryptable due to AES-256 key scheduling bugs along with CBC block mode implementation. Nemty drops a ransom note that informs the victim what to do to recover their encrypted files and deletes shadow copies of the files it encrypts in a system. According to Bleeping Computer’s own tests, Nemty demands a ransom of 0.09981 bitcoin, which amounts to around US$1,000 as of writing.Read More
Buran is a family of commodity ransomware, compiled with Borland Delphi. It was analyzed by ESET researchers in April 2019, who call it Win32/Filecoder.Buhtrap. In May 2019, Buran was discovered being sold in Russian-speaking underground forums. Buran’s developers market the malware to potential operators as a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) scheme, taking a 25% cut of any ransom payments in exchange for a “decoder” used to decrypt victims’ files. The affiliate scheme has been advertised on several forums by a user called buransupport, most recently on 4 September 2019.Read More
