https://malgregator.com/tags/backdoor/ Recent content in Backdoor on malgregator Hugo -- gohugo.io en you@example.com you@example.com Fri, 12 Oct 2018 08:12:00 +0000 https://malgregator.com/post/week-41-2018/ Fri, 12 Oct 2018 08:12:00 +0000 you@example.com https://malgregator.com/post/week-41-2018/ Memory corruption bug in WhatsApp's non-WebRTC video conferencing implementation can screw you. Just answering a call from an attacker could completely compromise WhatsApp. https://malgregator.com/post/week-39-2018/ Fri, 28 Sep 2018 08:24:00 +0000 you@example.com https://malgregator.com/post/week-39-2018/ Linux had officially committed to implementing and obeying the Code of Conduct — which is immediately misused to remove top Linux coders. Some of the Linux developers are now threatening to withdraw the license to all of their code. https://malgregator.com/post/week-34-2018/ Fri, 24 Aug 2018 08:27:00 +0000 you@example.com https://malgregator.com/post/week-34-2018/ If you are running Linux machines in Microsoft Azure, you should disable built-in wa-linux-agent backdoor that enable root access from Azure console. https://malgregator.com/post/week-33-2018/ Fri, 17 Aug 2018 07:52:00 +0000 you@example.com https://malgregator.com/post/week-33-2018/ There is an OpenSSH user enumeration attack against all software versions on all operating systems. It's a timing attack with proof of concept already published. https://malgregator.com/post/week-25-2018/ Fri, 22 Jun 2018 07:53:00 +0000 you@example.com https://malgregator.com/post/week-25-2018/ Marcus Brinkmann demonstrated how some configuration options in the GnuPG allow remote attackers to spoof arbitrary signature. He used the embedded “filename” parameter in OpenPGP literal data packets, together with the verbose option set in their gpg.conf file. https://malgregator.com/post/week-19-2018/ Fri, 11 May 2018 08:01:00 +0000 you@example.com https://malgregator.com/post/week-19-2018/ There is a first ransomware which is taking advantage of a new Process Doppelgänging fileless code injection technique. Working on all modern versions of Microsoft Windows, since Vista. This variant of a known SynAck ransomware is using NTFS transactions to launch a malicious process by replacing the memory of a legitimate process. https://malgregator.com/post/week-18-2018/ Thu, 03 May 2018 20:48:00 +0000 you@example.com https://malgregator.com/post/week-18-2018/ Multiple tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, Google and others formed an industry coalition and have joined security experts in criticizing encryption backdoors, after Ray Ozzie's CLEAR key escrow idea was widely derided. He basically proposed a scheme where the users have no control over their own devices, but the devices can be securely forensically analyzed by the government agencies. https://malgregator.com/post/week-11-2018/ Fri, 16 Mar 2018 19:30:00 +0000 you@example.com https://malgregator.com/post/week-11-2018/ A cyberattack on a Saudi Arabian petrochemical company was probably planed with the physical explosion in mind. They have attributed Iran, and didn't mention Stuxnet at all, so a little bit one-sided view of this cyberwarfare exchange. https://malgregator.com/post/week-03-2018/ Wed, 17 Jan 2018 23:03:00 +0000 you@example.com https://malgregator.com/post/week-03-2018/ Notoriously known Necurs spam botnet is sending millions of spam emails that are pumping shitcoin cryptocurrency named Swisscoin. Attackers are probably invested and are expecting to do pump-and-dump scheme. https://malgregator.com/post/week-02-2018/ Thu, 11 Jan 2018 22:11:00 +0000 you@example.com https://malgregator.com/post/week-02-2018/ New research has found a flaw in a group messaging part of a Signal protocol used by Signal, WhatsApp and Threema. It’s hardly exploitable, but the server (attacker) could be, in some theoretical scenario, able to silently join an encrypted group chat.