Tag: news
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How to Check if You Trust eMudhra: Trust Stores and CT Logs
In the last post we saw how eight eMudhra intermediate keys were guessable in seconds, and how Mozilla and Chrome moved to distrust the emSign ECC Root CA – G3. A natural question after that is, “Am I affected?”. Before we dive deep, let’s understand there are two different places to look, and each answers…
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eMudhra CA Incident: When the “random” keys were not random
In October 2026 a Certificate Authority called eMudhra got into serious trouble. Researchers found that private keys of eight of its intermediate certificates were so weak that anyone could guess them in seconds. Before we dive into what happened, let’s understand a few basics and then go through the incident. Topics we will be covering…
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Secure way to access dark web on android
Everything is on mobile and when we analyze the traffic we are getting to internet most of the sources are from mobile. Every web application is making their mobile apps. But for most of the people who wants to access dark web their first choice is desktop or laptop. To make it handy I have…
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Hackers using Facebook messenger to mine cryptocurrency
With the increase of interest in cryptocurrency, there is also increase in the malware that is spreading to earn that digital money. Recently Trend Micro discovered a virus more precisely a bot which is spreading through Facebook messenger. Even though this is observed in korea as it is one of the most using instant messenger…
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Hackers using wordpress websites to mine cryptocurrency
Everyone is behind cryptocurrency. It doesn’t matter on which coin you are investing, all cryptocurrencies values are getting skyrocketed. There are people buying them and investing in them but some nerds, geeks are into different ways to earn those cryptocurrencies. Recently website administrators used javascript to use client computing power to mine bitcoins and some…
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Captcha Plugin Installs Backdoor in 3 Lakh wordpress websites
WordPress is the most using Content Management System in the world. 75% of the web is made up of wordpress. One of the reason for its huge success is the support of plugins which takes simple wordpress website to complex web application. Recently Captcha plugin got removed from their wordpress repository for its backdoor fraud.…
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Windows 10 Anniversary update has keylogger, let’s hackers steal all your passwords
If you have windows 10 anniversary update installed on your PC i.e version 1607 then there might be possibility that your computer has pre-installed password manager and hackers can steal all your credentials remotely. In anniversary update Microsoft added a new feature called Content Delivery Manager which installs suggested apps in stealth mode without any…