All posts by Patrick Domingues
Skype For Business brought down by the Kitten of Doom Emoji Attack
Crash Skype for Business by sending a large number of emojis 800+ kittens in one message and the client freezes the program for a few seconds. This can be exploited to perform Denial of Service attacks against Skype for Business users and compromises the availability of the program. How would an attacker go about performing…
Setup Windows 10 System Restore. Not Enabled by Default.
Did you know that Windows 10 does not have system restore configured by default? System Restore comes handy when a patch crashed your system or updated drivers and software that caused unwanted reactions of the computer. 1. Find and Open System Restore At the search box in Windows 10 search for system restore and select Create a restore…
User Email Security Tips
Email security isn’t just the email provider or your IT administrator’s responsibility. It’s everybody’s responsibility. We all want to avoid having to produce a new resume. Here are some Safety Tips to help you all be protected and keep spam & malware to an absolute minimum. Change your password often. Use strong passwords. Never use a…
Ransomware saw massive growth year after year.
New reports on not just ransomware but all malware saw massive growth year after year. From SonicWall the cyber-security company detected 45 percent growth of malware infections towards desktops. SoncWall spotted 300,000 new attack variants so far this year. SonicWall’s recently announced Capture Cloud Platform is designed to counter these rising threats. SonicWall Capture Threat…
Windows 10 re-releases the October 2018 patch which was delayed for over a month
Hey friends It’s Patch Tuesday and Microsoft’s Windows 10 October 2018 Update version 1809 had a horrible release last time. Good news is that they have resolved a number of issues with this re-release update. This was an update that had to be immediately halted because the update could cause you to loose files and…
Mass Email Campaign Spreading The Emotet Banking Trojan
There is another large-scale spam campaign going to spread the Emotet banking trojan. The Emotet banking trojan is mostly used as the dropper for other payloads like ICedID, Trickbot, Zeus Panda Banker and a few others. These infections can scan and harvest different types of sensitive information, scan email 180 days back, have the ability to…
Growing Botnet Uses 5 Year Old Router Flaw
A brand new botnet which is a variant of the BCMUPnP_Hunter is taking advantage of this 5 year router flaw and 360 Netlab research shows that hundreds and thousands of of bots have already seeded themselves into routers. This same bot takes advantage of the same vulnerability that was discovered in 2013 ( BroadCom UPnp…
A New Intel CPU Exploit which uses Hyper-threading to steal encrypted data
A New Intel CPU Exploit : As if the Intel CPU couldn’t catch a break. A team of researches discovered a serious side-channel vulnerability in the CPU which could allow the attacker to find protected data like OPENSSL keys, Cypto Keys, Passwords and other processes that are running but only if the CPU has multi-threading…
Kraken Ransomware Adopts RaaS Model
The author of Kraken Ransomware has adopted the ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) Model. In the Dark Web you can find more details about joining the affiliate program which requires a small fee to be considered a trusted partner. The interesting part about this affiliate program is that you get about 70% to 80% of the earnings and requires…