Purple Fox is an exploit kit (EK) that appears to have been built to replace the RIG exploit kit (EK) in the distribution chain of Purple Fox malware (a Trojan/Rootkit). By building their own EK for distribution, the authors of the Purple Fox malware are able to save...
by Lisa Vaas Google announced on Tuesday that it’s purchased a smart-glasses company called North and, notwithstanding its failure to bring Google Glass wearables to the masses, still plans to caress our vision with the vast tentacles of its helpfulness. From...
by Paul Ducklin Have you left a cloud database exposed online? According to Dutch security researcher Victor Gevers of the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure, who’s been hunting down insecure databases for years, thousands of MongoDB users have done...
by Lisa Vaas A data breach broker has flooded a hacker forum with a whopping total of 132,957,579 user records. Bleeping Computer is in touch with the data breach broker: a “known and reputable” broker who’s selling databases, all of which contain...
by Paul Ducklin Yesterday was both a Tuesday and four weeks since the last major Firefox update, making it the official release date for the latest version. There are now three mainstream flavours of Firefox to choose from: 68.10ESR, 78.10ESR and 78.0. ESR is short...
