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Gh0st RAT Trojan Targets Chinese Windows Users via Fake Chrome Site

The remote access trojan known as Gh0st RAT has been observed being delivered by an "evasive dropper" called Gh0stGambit as part of a drive-by download scheme targeting Chinese-speaking Windows users. These infections stem from a fake website ("chrome-web[.]com") serving malicious installer packages masquerading as Google's Chrome browser, indicating that users searching for the software on the

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Companies Struggle to Recover From CrowdStrike's Crippling Falcon Update

The cybersecurity firm says that 97% of sensors are back online, but some organizations continue to recover, with costs tallied at $5.4 billion for the Fortune 500 alone.

Offensive AI: The Sine Qua Non of Cybersecurity

"Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. Yet it is often in the furnace of war that the sharpest tools of peace are forged." - Victor Hugo. In 1971, an unsettling message started appearing on several computers that comprised ARPANET, the precursor to what we now know as the Internet. The message, which read "I'm the Creeper: catch me if you can." was the output of a program named

U.S. DoJ Indicts North Korean Hacker for Ransomware Attacks on Hospitals

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday unsealed an indictment against a North Korean military intelligence operative for allegedly carrying out ransomware attacks against healthcare facilities in the country and funneling the payments to orchestrate additional intrusions into defense, technology, and government entities across the world. "Rim Jong Hyok and his co-conspirators deployed

CrowdStrike Warns of New Phishing Scam Targeting German Customers

CrowdStrike is alerting about an unfamiliar threat actor attempting to capitalize on the Falcon Sensor update fiasco to distribute dubious installers targeting German customers as part of a highly targeted campaign. The cybersecurity company said it identified what it described as an unattributed spear-phishing attempt on July 24, 2024, distributing an inauthentic CrowdStrike Crash Reporter

Microsoft's Internet Explorer Gets Revived to Lure in Windows Victims

Though IE was officially retired in June 2022, the vulnerability ramped up in January 2023 and has been going strong since.

The massive computer outage over the weekend was not a cyber attack, and I’m not sure why we have to keep saying that

Seeing a “blue screen of death,” often with code that looks indecipherable, has been ingrained into our heads that it’s a “hack."

Windows update may present users with a BitLocker recovery screen

After the July Microsoft update some systems boot into a BitLocker Recovery screen. How can you find the key you need?

Prison Management System 1.0 Shell Upload

Prison Management System version 1.0 suffers from an unauthenticated remote shell upload vulnerability.