Security

Credit to Author: Wayne Chin Yick Low| Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 13:50:59 +0000

One of our daily routines as researchers here at FortiGuard Labs is to write and maintain our internal fuzzers to help us more effectively find potential vulnerabilities on different software products. In this blog post we would like to share how we discovered multiple Embedded Open Type (EOT) font vulnerabilities by using a combination of dumb and intelligent open source fuzzers.

Credit to Author: David Maciejak| Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 13:50:59 +0000

Do you ever feel the Internet is especially slow these days? Or do you have ever wonder if maybe it’s just your computer that’s getting slower? Don’t rush to the IT shop to buy a new computer yet … you may have been a victim of a new trick used by malevolent hackers called browser “cryptojacking.” What is cryptojacking? It’s a new trick used to mine cryptocurrencies on your computer using your CPU resources in the background without your knowledge. All that a cybercriminal has to do is load a script…