Malware Living in the Firmware: When No OS Reinstall Will Help
A “new” class of malware hit the Cyberspace that is designed to live off the land in host machines’ UEFI BIOS chip memory. Kaspersky Lab,…
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Resourceful Hackers Use Morse Code to Avoid Endpoint Detection
In a recent alert, Microsoft disclosed a quite novel (or archaical – you choose) way of a phishing / hacking crew, which relies on morse…
GLOWWORM: Yet Another Attack Vector Against Airgapped Systems
As with all the online attack vectors that won’t stop evolving, the benefits of the possible measures to target airgapped systems are continously making a…
Pegasus, Candiru et al: 3 Easy Ways to Evade Professional Surveillance
During the last few weeks a shocking revelation spread lile wildfire in the media, centering around the use of the NSO Pegasus spyware that has…
Farewell to wiretaps – the lip reading AI is here
It seems that not a single day could pass without yet another method to surveil humans entering the fray. This time it is a lip-reading…
Taking over planes and ships via satellite comms
Ships and aircraft of civvie and military owners are often equipped with satellite communication systems, enabling the crew to send and receive messages or orders,…
Not funny at all: nuclear agency breached – and then tried to hush things up
A rather usual (well, nowadays, that is) and successful hacking op took place in May that targeted South Korea’s nuclear research institution, KAERI. The initial…