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Berta is a dedicated malware researcher, dreaming for a more secure cyber space. Her fascination with IT security began a few years ago when a malware locked her out of her own computer.

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Spam-mail- E-ZPass

New Spam Campaign Infection Using E-ZPass Toll-Bills Announced by IC3

Over 560 Internet crime complaints regarding spam e-mails, receiving have been filed in the USA IC3 Internet Crime Complaint Center on November 3 this year. The complaints consists of that a lot of E-ZPass users – a system, combining more…

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RIG Exploit Kit

RIG Exploit Kit Delivers Malware to Visitors of Spin.com

Users who have visited the music news website spin.com two weeks ago and didn’t have the latest patches may have become victims to a drive-by download attack delivered through a RIG exploit kit. The moment the exploit kit discovers a…

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Poweliks Trojan Delivered Through Spam Emails

Poweliks Trojan Delivered Through Spam Emails

Experts report that the number of computers infected with Poweliks Trojan has been growing recently. The primary distribution technique at the moment is through spam, but the cyber criminals are using other methods as well. Details on the Poweliks Trojan…

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Chrome Update Virus

Fake Google Chrome Update Virus

In case you receive alerts about Chrome browser updates constantly, you might be infected with adware. Such pop-up notifications are often misleading, and basically try to lure the user into downloading questionable, unsafe or malicious programs. Often the scammers are…

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gatso-and-ransomware-phishing-campaign

New Phishing Campaign Combines Speeding Ticket Email with a Ransomware

A phishing campaign merging two of the most hated tools of the digital era – ransomware and Gatsos – is gaining popularity these days. The ransomware is delivered with an email purporting to be from the Office of State Revenue…

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Students-keep-on-using-Snapchat

Students Keep On Using Snapchat Despite The Snappening

Despite all warnings, it seems impossible to get college kids to stop using Snapchat. A firm that delivers services only to users with email addresses ending on .edu called Sumpto, has recently released a report announcing that over 100 000…

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PokkiPUP

Should You Remove Pokki From Your Computer ?

This article aims to help you by showing instructions on how to remove Pokki from your computer permanently. Pokki is a legitimate software program designed to improve the users’ browsing experience by obtaining various free applications and providing them with…

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Tor-facebook

Facebook Eases Access to Its Social Network for Tor Hidden Services Users

On October, 31 last week Facebook announced that they are making the network directly accessible for users as a Tor Hidden Service. What Tor does is offering anonymity for users offering and using different web-services over the Internet. Connecting to…

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SuperCrypt-Ransomware

SuperCrypt Ransomware Targeting Users in Europe

Experts have detected a new file-encrypting ransomware, dubbed SuperCrypt, in the middle of October this year. Like another popular ransomware like CryptoWall and CryptoLocker, the recently reported SuperCrypt encrypts certain files on the compromised computer and displays a ransom message…

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Microsoft-support

Microsoft Expected to Extend Office Support for Mac 2011

Microsoft had taken a decision to launch the new edition of Office for Mac in the second half of 2015. This will most probably result in the company’s extended support for the Office for Mac 2011. On the last Friday…

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Gmail-drafts-malware

New Malware Infecting Gmail Drafts

A new way to infect computers with malicious software has been found by Wade Williamson, a security researcher in the Shape Security startup company. What he says is that this attack is actually a similar version of the Remote Access…

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shellshock-attacks-increase-fast

Shellshock Attacks Increase Fast

Companies cannot manage to patch up their processes in the wake of Bash vulnerability. Security experts have issued two warnings regarding new malicious attacks associated with Shellshock, as they observe a rapidly growing number of cybercriminals who take advantage of…

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Chrome-update

New Version of Chrome 39

In Six Weeks Time Google Are Releasing New Version of Their Browser to Prevent Relying on a Bug in the SSL 3.0 Certificate. As we wrote earlier this month Google discovered a flow in the SSL 3.0 certificate of web-sites…

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BlackEnergy

BlackEnergy Targeting Industrial Control Systems in the USA

Numerous industrial control systems (ICS) in the USA were compromised in a malicious campaign using a version of the BalckEnergy toolkit that was launched at least three years ago. The HMI products of Advantech/Broadwin WebAccess, GE Cimplicity and Siemens WinCC…

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Malware Downloader Tool Defoil Most Used in Scam Emails in September

Malware Downloader Tool Defoil Most Used in Scam Emails in September

Hackers use spam messages quite often as a malware distribution path. The malicious files are usually delivered to the user as attachments or links to a download location. Researchers report that most of the fraudulent emails sent is September, were…

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telethon-instagram-profile-hijacked

Telethon Instagram Profile Hijacked

The Instagram account of Telethon, a 2-day-charity-event in West Australia raising funds for children, was taken over by an unidentified person. The sum raised this year is $22.2million. Just after the end of the event, the official Instagram profile of…

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crowti-ransomware

71% of the Crowti Ransomware Infections Located in the US

Microsoft Research Team has detected a spike in a piece of system-locking ransomware similar to Cryptolocker, dubbed Crowti. Crowti has been around for a few months now, but researchers have noticed its activities in mid-October. In the peak of the…

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Google Android 5.0 Lollipop Version – Improved Security Features

Google Android 5.0 Lollipop Version – Improved Security Features

With the approaching release of Android 5.0 Lollipop version Goggle promises some extra security features, described in a blog from their Security Lead Engineer Adrian Ludwig posted on Tuesday. “From the moment you turn on a device running Android 5.0,…

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Cyber-Bullying Law to Be Presented in Parliament by the End of the Year in Australia

Cyberbullying Laws in Australia Don’t Cover Snapchat

The Abbott government in Australia is aiming to present new online children safety law to Parliament by the end of this year. In a speech from Tuesday this week Paul Fletcher, the Parliamentary Secretary for Communications, revealed some more details…

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