Google has introduced the Mobile Vulnerability Rewards Program (Mobile VRP), a new bug bounty initiative aimed at incentivizing security researchers to uncover vulnerabilities in the company’s Android applications. The program offers monetary rewards to bughunters who can find and help fix weaknesses in Google-developed or maintained first-party Android apps. In [...]
A group of financially motivated hackers from Indonesia have been discovered using Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances for unauthorized cryptocurrency mining activities. The cloud security firm Permiso P0 Labs, which detected the group, has named them GUI-vil (pronounced Goo-ee-vil). The hackers show a preference for Graphical ...
San Francisco based blockchain company, Origin Protocol confirmed that its stable coin, Origin Dollar (OUSD) had been hacked for around $7 million in Ethereum and DAI of which around $1 million were deposited by the company founders and employees. A flash-loan transaction was the main reason for the attack. The ...
A hacking group which was notorious in 2017, has recently been found impersonating legitimate messaging apps such as Telegram and Threema to infect Android devices with a new malware. “Compared to the versions documented in 2017, Android/SpyC23.A has extended spying functionality, including reading notifications from messaging apps, call recording and ...
Microsoft’s long-lived operating system Windows XP—that still powers over 1% of all laptops and desktop computers worldwide—has had its source code leaked online, allegedly, along with Windows Server 2003. The source code for Microsoft’s 19-year-old operating system was published as a torrent file on notorious bulletin board website 4chan, and ...
German authorities last week disclosed that a ransomware attack on the University Hospital of Düsseldorf (UKD) caused a failure of IT systems, resulting in the death of a woman who had to be sent to another hospital that was 20 miles away. The incident marks the first recorded casualty as a consequence ...
Google has introduced the Mobile Vulnerability Rewards Program (Mobile VRP), a new bug bounty initiative aimed at incentivizing security researchers to uncover vulnerabilities in the company’s Android applications. The program offers monetary rewards to bughunters who can find and help fix weaknesses in Google-developed or maintained first-party Android apps. In [...]
