Ionut Ilascu
Author Bio
Ionut Ilascu is a technology writer with a focus on all things cybersecurity. The topics he writes about include malware, vulnerabilities, exploits and security defenses, as well as research and innovation in information security. His work has been published by Bitdefender, Netgear, The Security Ledger and Softpedia.
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APT28 Uses LoJax, First UEFI Rootkit Seen in the Wild
Security researchers tracking the operations of a cyber-espionage group found the first evidence of a rootkit for the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) being used in the wild.
- September 27, 2018
- 07:55 AM
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Trojanized App In Google Play Steals Bank Customers' Euros
ESET security researcher Stefanko Lukas says that the audio recording features worked as expected, so victims would have no reason to be suspicious of harmful activity.
- September 26, 2018
- 02:48 PM
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Hide and Seek Botnet Adds Infection Vector for Android Devices
Since its discovery early this year, the Hide and Seek IoT botnet has been increasing its infection capabilities with new vectors. The latest samples look for exposed Android devices that have the wireless debugging feature enabled.
- September 26, 2018
- 08:33 AM
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Magecart Attacks Grow Rampant in September
Attacks that compromise websites with scripts that steal payment card data from checkout pages have increased to hundreds of thousands of attempts in little over a month.
- September 25, 2018
- 08:03 PM
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Over 80 Cisco Products Affected by FragmentSmack DoS Bug
Cisco is currently looking into its product line to determine the ones using Linux kernel 3.9 or above, which is vulnerable to the FragmentSmack denial-of-service (DoS) bug.
- September 25, 2018
- 05:27 PM
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Security Engineer Hacks Hotel WiFi, Fined for Exposing Admin Password
A security engineer from Chinese multinational company Tencent hacked into the WiFi system of a hotel in Singapore and received a fine for publicly disclosing administrator login passwords.
- September 25, 2018
- 11:18 AM
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United Nations WordPress Site Exposes Thousands of Resumes
Disclosure vulnerabilities in a web app from the United Nations leave open to public access CVs from job applicants and the organization failed to plug the leak despite receiving a private report on the issues.
- September 25, 2018
- 03:00 AM
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GPG Mail Update Surprises Mac Users with Paid Plan
Mac users with GPG Mail installed on their systems woke up to a rude surprise when they updated the application last Friday and noticed that it had switched to a paid plan.
- September 25, 2018
- 01:35 AM
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macOS Mojave Privacy Bypass Flaw Allows Access to Protected Files
A security researcher shows on Mojave's release day that Apple's latest privacy protection implementations in macOS are not sufficiently strong.
- September 24, 2018
- 11:19 AM
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Microsoft Rolls Out Confidential Computing for Azure
At the Ignite developer's conference today, Microsoft announces that the Azure cloud platform will soon integrate data protection features that keep information safe from the looming threat of a data breach.
- September 24, 2018
- 09:10 AM
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Cloudflare Improves Privacy by Encrypting the SNI During TLS Negotiation
Cloudflare announces today support for encrypted Server Name Indication, a mechanism that makes it more difficult to track user's browsing.
- September 24, 2018
- 08:15 AM
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Thousands of Compromised WordPress Sites Redirect to Tech Support Scams
Thousands of WordPress websites have been compromised and injected with JavaScript code that redirects users to tech-support scam pages.
- September 21, 2018
- 09:30 PM
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Port of Barcelona Suffers Cyberattack
The Port of Barcelona was Thursday morning the victim of a cyberattack that affected some of its servers and systems, forcing the organization to launch the contingency plan designed specifically for these incidents.
- September 21, 2018
- 05:15 PM
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Romanian Woman Admits Involvement in Hacking Attack On Washington Police Computers
A Romanian woman admitted on Thursday her participation in a ransomware distribution scheme that ended up disabling computers used by the Washington D.C. police for surveillance.
- September 21, 2018
- 10:09 AM
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Unwiped Drives and Servers from NCIX Retailer for Sale on Craigslist
Servers and storage disks filled with millions of unencrypted confidential records of employees, customers and business partners of computer retailer NCIX turned up for sale via a Craigslist advertisement.
- September 21, 2018
- 06:51 AM
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