Category Security

Two Drugs Labs Busted After Encrypted Chat App Takedown

An encrypted communication app popular with organized crime groups (OGCs) was taken down by European police late last week after years of investigation. According to Eurojust, an estimated 3,000 users used Exclu to hide their communications from law enforcement. A…

Novel Banking Trojan ‘PixPirate’ Targets Brazil

A new Android banking Trojan dubbed “PixPirate” has been discovered targeting Brazilian financial institutions in late 2022 and early this year. The findings are from the following security experts: Creefydescribed the new threat in an advisory published Friday. “PixPirate is…

OpenSSH Releases Patch for New Pre-Auth Double Free Vulnerability

February 6, 2023Rabbi LakshmananAuthentication/vulnerability The OpenSSH maintainers released OpenSSH 9.2 to address a number of security bugs, including a memory safety vulnerability in the OpenSSH server (sshd). This flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-25136, is classified as a pre-authentication double release vulnerability…

Scam Alert for Dingo Token That Charges 99% Fee

Researchers have warned that the popular cryptocurrency is a scam after discovering backdoor functionality designed to effectively steal user funds. Dingo Token is relatively small by cryptocurrency standards. Its market capitalization is close to $11 million, ranking down at 774.th…