Cryptika Cybersecurity News

Two UC Santa Cruz students found a major security flaw in CSC ServiceWorks laundry machines. Over a million internet-connected laundry machines in homes, hotels, and colleges worldwide are affected by the bug, which allows people to run them for free. …

A new Android banking Trojan, Antidot, emerged in May 2024, which steals credentials through overlay attacks and has various functionalities for complete device control. Antidot uses VNC, keylogging, screen recording, and call forwarding to capture sensitive information.  It can also …

Hackers use loaders to bypass security measures and run harmful code in a genuine process’s memory themselves.  This makes it possible for malware payloads to be quietly loaded into the system without being discovered by any of the many file …

A security researcher identified a vulnerability in TeslaLogger, a third-party software used to collect data from Tesla vehicles, that leveraged insecure default settings that could be exploited to gain unauthorized access to TeslaLogger instances.  Reported the issue to the TeslaLogger …

Threat intelligence feeds provide real-time updates on indicators of compromise (IOCs), such as malicious IPs and URLs. Security researchers and organizations share IOCs with feed vendors, who then analyze and validate them before distributing the information to subscribers.  Security systems …

Malware experts all over the world can’t do their jobs without YARA. YARA has been updated many times to add new features and fix a huge number of bugs. It is known for being able to find and label malware. …

The email campaign impersonates the Facebook Ads Team to trick users into clicking a malicious link, as the email leverages social engineering tactics like sender name spoofing and urgency to appear legitimate.  Grammatical errors and a suspicious link embedded in …

Jason Peraire-Bueno, 28, of New York, and Anton Peraire-Bueno, 24, of Boston have been charged with wire fraud, plot to commit wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. The charges are related to a complicated plan to take advantage …