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An Ubuntu server of my company has been hacked to carry out a DoS attack. I found the shellshock bug had not been fixed by my colleagues, and I think it's the problem. Then, I found an ELF file that ...

After running a system scan earlier today, I found that my computer had been infected by a trojan horse. My reason for running the scan was because Windows kept shutting down and then recovering. ...

I have an AWS EC2 instance running RHEL 7.2 which seems to have been hacked by a BitCoin CPU Miner. When I run ps -eo pcpu,args --sort=-%cpu | head, it shows that there is a CPU miner that's taking up ...

Almost all my sites got hacked by cpamatik.com virus All CMS were up to date, plugins, modules etc..(Drupal and Wordpress) , some sites I have logged in to work on, but some sites I haven't touched ...

some Indian man called home saying that he's calling from some Windows Security Department, and there are about 16 other people connected to my computer and the're doing illegal things on my computer. ...

This is my first question here on the IT Security section of Stack Exchange, so if there is any problems with my question I apologize. Basics Suddenly Google says that my website contains Malware! ...

I recently got an email from my ISP saying that they'd detected traffic to a known Command & Control server from my home. Boo. I'm sure this probably means one of our computers has some awful ...

I have found this question below but I need some more clarification that's why I am writing again. I have a process called “watchbog” that is completely hogging my CPU and I don't know what it is ...

I'm interested in the recommended course of action for when you find a (Windows) system infected with the ZeroAccess botnet. I've seen various blog posts online recommending that the user download ...

This process that has come out of nowhere is hogging my CPU and I have no clue what it is or how to get rid of it. You can see in the image below what it's doing: What is this process? How can I get ...

I'm running a raspberry PI and I've accidentally left the 22 port open to it from a public IP for about 24 hours. Raspberries' raspbian distro comes by default with a "pi" user and "raspberry" ...

As I know, most hacker can crypt the virus to bypass all antivirus. Even famous antivirus like kaspersky and avast doesn't know it. So, is there a good way to find out the FUD virus and protect from ...

I'm desprate because my site has been attacked by some malware that adds code below on every php files. I tried to edit and chmod the infected file but its coming back. Scanning with ClamAV found ...

Maybe my WordPress site is hacked, because it's always sending spam (5000 per day). I found one file in plugins folder which contains this base64 code. What should I do? EDIT: Oh, I found another ...

It's well known what measures one should take to prevent hackers from hacking their PC. But are there any steps that allows a user to evaluate the damage done by a hacker? Say that I know for sure ...