Terminator RAT became more sophisticated in recent APT attacks

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) is a term referring to targeted attacks on enterprises and other organizations and recently referred to what appeared to be nation-state intelligence agencies using cyber assaults for both conventional espionage and industrial espionage.   Advanced threats have targeted control systems in the past and these attacks use commercially available and custom-made advanced

Apple’s own Encryption Mechanism allows hacker to create an Undetectable Mac OS X Malware

In the past, there was a general belief that Macs is much more secure than Windows PCs, but now Mac malware is a serious threat to the security of users’ computers and information. One of the reasons behind the increase in Mac related Malware attacks is the fact that Apple products are popular with many

NSA using Browser Cookies to track Tor Users

Yesterday a new classified NSA document was leaked by Edward Snowden – titled ‘Tor Stinks’ in which ideas were being kicked around for identifying Tor users or degrading the user experience to dissuade people from using the Tor browser. The NSA had a very hard time while tracking down all Tor users and monitoring their traffic,

The FBI busted Silk Road, but not the ‘dark web’ behind it

Silk Road, the underground website where dealers sold illegal drugs, was supposed to be safe. The site was nestled deep in the dark web, accessible only through the anonymizing network Tor. All transactions were done in the anonymizing virtual currency Bitcoin. Its owner-operator, Dread Pirate Roberts, was said to be a criminal mastermind and technical

iMessage for Android. Be careful what you trust!

A new app, which claims to bring Apple’s proprietary iMessage chat service to Android users, is raising concerns. The free app, called iMessage Chat, is available in Google’s official Android Play store, and appears to allow Android users to instant message with their iPhone/iPad/Mac-owning buddies. Curiously, the app was not written by Apple but by