JDownloader site hacked to replace installers with Python RAT malware

The website for the popular JDownloader download manager was compromised earlier this week to distribute malicious Windows ...

Canvas hack exposes schools' vulnerability to cyberattacks

This week's hack into information from almost 9,000 schools included personally identifying data. It was not the first big ...
Hackaday

This Week In Security: Another Linux Exploit, Ubuntu Knocked Offline, Finals Interrupted, And Backdoored Tools

After the CopyFail vulnerability gave root access from any user on almost all distributions last week, this week we’ve got DirtyFrag. This chains the vulnerability in CopyFail (xfrm-ESP) and ...
BGR

New Hacking Threat Could Steal Your Accounts And Passwords - Even Through 2FA

Researchers from cybersecurity firm Varonis have discovered an infostealer that collects browser credentials, including accounts and passwords, session cookies, and crypto wallets. An infostealer is a ...
Wired

The Dumbest Hack of the Year Exposed a Very Real Problem

In the wee hours of the night last April, someone stopped at roughly 20 street intersections across Silicon Valley and launched an unprecedented cyberattack that would eventually spread to multiple ...

The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed

Publicly released exploit code for an effectively unpatched vulnerability that gives root access to virtually all releases of ...
Dark Reading

After Replacing TeamPCP Malware, 'PCPJack' Steals Cloud Secrets

PCPJack makes innovative use of parquet files for stealthy, pre-validated target discovery as it canvasses multiple cloud ...