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What Is Reverse Captcha Virus Reverse Captcha is a suspicious page triggering unwanted pop-ups and notifications in the browser. These notifications invite the user to subscribe, and doing so may cause downloads of potentially unwanted apps and browser extensions. Users…
Are you having trouble reaching Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram? Don’t be shocked – even the most popular services suffer outages, and these three are no exclusion. Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram Down All three platforms stopped working a few hours ago. According…
Windows 11 official launch is due tomorrow, October 5. Windows 10 users with eligible devices are presented with the option of a free upgrade. You can also buy a new computer with a pre-loaded Windows 11 operating system. But is…
Nicyaboyenan.com Pop-Up Scam Nicyaboyenan.com is a suspicious website that triggers scareware notifications and pop-ups to trick users into believing they have viruses on their devices. The end goal of such pages usually is to make the potential victim install a…
The notorious Conti ransomware has been updated with an intriguing capability – destroying the victim’s backups. Conti ransomware hunts for Veeam privileged users and services According to a detailed report by Vitali Kremez and Yelisey Boguslavskiy of Advanced Intelligence, Conti…
Apple’s personal item-tracker devices, known as AirTag, can be exploited to deliver malware, cause clickjacking, steal user credentials and tokens, due to a zero-day XSS vulnerability. AirTag is an iPhone accessory that provides a private and secure way to easily…
A nefarious Android trojan, called GriftHorse and hidden in an agressive mobile premium services campaign has stolen hundreds of millions of Euros. The discovery comes from Zimperium zLabs researchers who discovered the trojan has been using malicious Android applications to…
CVE-2021-26084 is a vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence deployments across Windows and Linux. The flaw is critical, and has been exploited to deploy web shells causing the execution of cryptocurrency miners on vulnerable systems. CVE-2021-26084: Critical Atlassian Confluence Vulnerability According to…
Kaspersky’s Secure List researchers just released new findings regarding the infamous surveillance toolset known as FinSpy, FinFisher or Wingbird. Related: Flubot Android Spyware Delivered via Fake SMS Messages about Missed Package Delivery Deeper Look into FinSpy’s Capabilities The researchers have…
There’s a new backdoor in the wild attributed to the NOBELIUM threat actor, believed to be behind SUNBURST backdoor, TEARDROP malware, and “related components”. According to Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC), the so-called FoggyWeb is a post-exploitation backdoor. The NOBELIUM…
A new mobile banking Trojan has just surfaced. Called ERMAC, the malware appears to be coined by the BlackRock cybercriminals and is based on the roots of the infamous Cerberus. “If we investigate ERMAC, we can find out that ERMAC…
Google recently released an emergency patch for its Chrome browser that fixes a vulnerability with a known exploit in the wild. CVE-2021-37973 Actively Exploited in the Wild CVE-2021-37973 is a use after free vulnerability in Portals API, which is a…
Apple released updates for three zero-day flaws exploited in the wild. CVE-2021-30869, CVE-2021-30860, CVE-2021-30858 The first actively exploited zero-day flaw, CVE-2021-30869, has been fixed in updates for macOS Catalina and iOS 12. According to the official advisory, “a malicious application…
Twitter is expanding its Tip Jar (Tips) functionality with the option to send and receive funds using Bitcoin. Tips is meant to help users receive donations from followers, and is first being made available to iOS users. However, Android users…
Spydr Virus File A new variant of the Babuk ransomware family was detected in the wild. Called Spydr, the crypto virus appends the .spydr extension to encrypted files. Another sign of this ransomware infection is the appearance of the RESTORE…
A new severe, arbitrary file upload VMware vCenter Server vulnerability, identified as CVE-2021-22005, needs immediate patching. Impacting VMware Analytics service, the flaw affects all appliances running default 6.5, 6.7 and 7.0 installations. The vulnerability is a part of a broader…
A zero-day vulnerability in macOS affecting Big Sur and prior versions has been discovered. The bug resides in macOS Finder system and could allow a remote attacker to trick users into running arbitrary commands. Apparently, there’s still no patch for…
Cybercriminals recently exploited an old vulnerability in an 11-year-old installation of Adobe ColdFusion 9 to take control of the ColdFusion server remotely. The purpose of the attack was to drop the Cring ransomware and compromise other machines on the targeted…
UnitAnalog UnitAnalog also known as UnitAnalogfld is an adware and potentially unwanted program targeting Mac users. The adware is most likely generating an error pop-up message, claiming that “UnitAnalog will damage your computer.” Other types of error messages could also…
One of the latest discoveries in the Linux security field reveals that the Windows Subsystem for Linux, shortly known as WSL, has turned into a new attack surface. Security researchers recently came across a number of malicious files written primarily…
