image credit Now-a-days, the word "WannaCry" is very familiar to all of us. This ransomware exploited the vulnerabilities in  Microsoft’s Windows operating system (except Windows 10) to hack more than 75,000 computers in more than 150 countries & counting last Friday. Microsoft has recently released the security patches for all versions of Winows including XP to prevent this ransomware. Also numerous security researchers are continuously working to develop a permanent solution. Although a temporary solution called "WannaCry KillSwitch" is already discovered by a british security researcher Marcus Hutchins. He slows down the spreads of WannaCry by registering a domain name "wannacry". Heimdal Security, a cyber security software company has recently reported that another ransomware called Uiwix, has emerged, which is exploiting the vulnerabilities found in Windows SMB v1 and SMB v2. Wannacry is doing in the same method to spread. Is Uiwix simi...

image credit In this week a research group of Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection system, recognized a few attacks being carried out against a software update system whose name has not been revealed.  However, it is confirmed that the compromised software is a well-known editing application. And the vendor of this software also experienced attacks. The research team said that after successfully compromised  the software update system, the attackers were able to  gain remote access to targeted computers with which they executed malwares in the system.  How was the attack carried out ? This Microsoft's researcher team stated that the attackers utilized PowerShell scripts consolidated with the Meterpreter reverse shell, which allowed them to silently invade the target and without letting users know that his or her system was being hacked. Likewise, similar methods have been utilized previously to to carry out some high-profile attacks. Altair Tec...

What I Learnt Today: Kaspersky Soon To Launch Their Completely Hack-Proof Operating System Kaspersky , the famous Russian company which provides international cyber-security and anti-virus has recently stated that it has developed a completely hack-proof operating system. The name of this hack-proof operating system is  Kaspersky OS . Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of Kaspersky said that this hack-proof operating system has been under developmental stages from the past 14 years and it’s the time to reveal it publicly. He also said that the official release date of  Kaspersky OS  is November 11. Kaspersky OS  was launched on a Kraftway Layer 3 Switch, which is the key necessity for running Kaspersky OS. The Switch is intended for systems that require high level of data security. Rather than utilizing Linux, Kaspersky chose to make a completely new OS, which is certainly more. So,  Kaspersky OS  is completely different from others because of having the...