Cyber World News

  The source code for Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system (and other versions) has been leaked online!  Published as a torrent file on bulletin board website 4chan, the 43GB data dump is said to have been compiled over the course of the last few months by the leaker. The collection also includes source code for Windows 2000 and multiple versions of Windows CE, MS DOS, Windows Embedded and Windows NT - but all of which have a smaller modern install base than XP. The individual responsible for the leak also appears to bear Bill Gates a distinct grudge, dedicating a whole section of the torrent file to videos slandering the Microsoft founder.  The legitimacy of the leaked code has not yet been confirmed, but Microsoft has been made aware of the issue. Although support for Windows XP lapsed in 2014 - meaning the OS has not received security updates for a number of years - a surprising number of users remain loyal to the outdated operating system. As of last month, 1.26% o...

Once again, Cerberus malware has emerged as a threat to users after appearing on the Google Play Store. The malware posed as a cryptocurrency converter app to trick users, thus reaching thousands of downloads. Cerberus Posing As Cryptocurrency App Researchers from Avast found Cerberus malware appearing on Google Play Store. The malware hid behind a cryptocurrency converter app. As explained in their post, the app seemingly aims at Spanish users. It bears the name “Calculadora de Moneda” which translates as “Currency Calculator” in English. Considering the niche chosen, it seems that malware basically attempted to steal users’ banking data, which the users would need to enter while converting their cryptocurrency to fiat money. Briefly, the researchers observed that the app remained harmless for a few initial weeks, seemingly to gather users (or victims). This also allowed the app to escape security check by Google Play Protect. However, the app did bear malicious malware dropper code w...

Lucifer Malware Targeting Windows Researchers from Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 division have found an active campaign of new malware in the wild. Dubbed ‘Satan’ by the threat actors, and ‘Lucifer’ by the researchers this malware exploits known bugs to infect Windows machines. Sharing the details in a post, the researchers explained that they caught two strains of Lucifer while analyzing the campaign. Yet, their functionalities predominantly remained the same, version 2 is more advanced. Briefly, Lucifer malware aims at cryptojacking by dropping XMRig on target devices, and DDoS attacks.  Moreover, the other functionalities are slightly different for the two versions. The Lucifer v.1 performs cryptojacking, DDoS attacks, brute-forcing credentials, and self-propagation. Whereas, Lucifer v.2, in addition to these capabilities, also exhibits anti-sandbox and anti-debugger functionalities. Also, the malware tends to drop EternalBlue, EternalRomance, and DoublePulsar backdoors (under cer...

Tycoon Ransomware – New Java Based Ransomware Attack Windows & Linux Users Security experts have warned that hackers are using a new multi-platform Java ransomware “Tycoon” to target Windows and Linux users to lock down the files. We all know that hackers are constantly looking for new means to attack data centers and systems of normal users to steal essential data and information. Since Microsoft Windows is the most used OS, that’s why hackers are making it as their target. hackers are paying more and more attention to other operating systems as well, like macOS and Linux.  As hackers are betting massively on multi-platform malware and ransomware, that affects all the major platforms. The main goal of this critical vulnerability is to infect the SMBs in the software and education industries. Tycoon Ransomware Security experts at BlackBerry  Research  and Intelligence Team in association with KPMG’s UK Cyber ​​Response Services have named this ransomware as “Tycoon,” ...

Kali Linux 2020.2: New look, new packages, new installer options Offensive Security has  released  Kali Linux 2020.2, the latest iteration of the popular open-source penetration testing platform. Kali Linux 2020.2 changes There are several cosmetic changes in this newest  Kali Linux  release: Dark and light themes are now available for the KDE Plasma desktop environment The login screen got new graphics and a new layout New package logos for each tool Other changes include: PowerShell has become more accessible: it has been moved from the Kali Linux’s network repository to the  kali-Linux-large  metapackage, meaning that it will be ready for use if users choose to install this meta-package during system setup or later, once Kali is up and running (through a simple command) After  recently  switching the default “root/toor” credentials to “kali/kali” for desktop images and making the default user account a standard, unprivileged (non-root) user, Of...