Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Single SpamBot had 711 million records of which 80 million are credentials


“Just for a sense of scale, that’s almost one address for every single man, woman and child in all of Europe,” Hunt wrote

The spambot is called Onliner and it’s been around since 2016 and is best known for spreading the Ursnif banking Trojan.


For more info:
https://threatpost.com/spambot-contains-mind-boggling-amount-of-email-smtp-credentials/127722/

Friday, August 25, 2017

Can you change a benign email to a malicious one after it has been sent? - YES , we have ROPEMAKER




Ropemaker - stands for Remotely Originated Post-delivery Email Manipulation Attacks Keeping Email Risky

A successful exploitation of the Ropemaker attack could allow an attacker to remotely modify the content of an email sent by the attacker itself, for example swapping a URL with the malicious one.

This can be done even after the email has already been delivered to the recipient and made it through all the necessary spam and security filters, without requiring direct access to the recipient’s computer or email application, exposing hundreds of millions of desktop email client users to malicious attacks.


More Details Here:
https://thehackernews.com/2017/08/change-email-content.html

Thursday, August 24, 2017

Dark Side of Technology - Sound based hacks (CovertBand)





  • Detect people’s activities
  • Induce false readings in a phone’s accelerometer
  • balancing gyroscopes like drones and hoverboards could be similarly disrupted
  • remotely hacking into air-gapped computers
  • Covert Sonic Weapon


More details here:
https://www.fastcompany.com/40455626/hack-music-can-watch-you-through-your-devices

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

check your password if it is already in the compromised list


You think you have a strong password
Or
You create a new password and you believe it is good enough

Are you sure it is not part of the  compromised password list?


Go the the site below and test your password.

https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords