Experts at Snyk, a cybersecurity firm, have identified a critical vulnerability dubbed “Zip Slip,” which affects several projects across various industries. The British security company’s…
Category: Cybersecurity
Operators of IcedID and TrickBot Join Together to Target Victims
This is not very different from a political potboiler—two entities who used to fight each other suddenly start working together for mutual benefit. The discussion…
More Than 100 Million IoT Devices Vulnerable to Z-Shave Downgrade Attack
The security aspect of the devices being run in the Internet of Things (or IoT) has been a matter of concern in the trade but…
Vulnerabilities Found in PGP and S/MIME May Reveal Plaintext of Encrypted Emails
A group of critical vulnerabilities collectively known as EFAIL have been discovered in popular end-to-end encryption technologies PGP (and its open-source iteration GPG) and S/MIME….
Russian Firm Sells Zero-Day Vulnerabilities for Hospital Software
Russia-based security research company Gleg has advised it will sell a security subscription service covering valuable zero-day exploits for software embedded into medical system software,…
What Is Metamorphic Virus and How It Works
Even as the antivirus laboratories keep detecting firmware to mitigate the damage caused by malware, those involved in creating the malware appear to be a…