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Where will ransomware stand in the forthcoming years? According to various statistics, ransomware attacks increased discernibly in 2019. The reason? The vulnerable state of organizations and the increasing level of sophistication seen in attack mechanisms. In other words, attackers are…
A GDPR compliance plugin for WordPress has turned out to be vulnerable, exposing website owners to critical security issues. GDPR Cookie Consent Plugin Vulnerable The GDPR Cookie Consent plugin by the Cookie Law Info developer has been offered through WebToffee,…
The general belief for a very long time has been that macOS is safer than Windows. However, new statistics reveal that the number of Mac threats is increasing faster than the number of Windows threats. According to the 2020 Malwarebytes…
Canada is one of several countries that launched investigations regarding Facebook’s privacy practices following the Cambridge Analytics scandal. It comes to no one’s surprise that currently Canada’s privacy commissioner is taking Facebook to court in an attempt to force the…
A new Imperva report presents a detailed analysis of the DDoS threat landscape in 2019. The report is based on statistical data of 3,643 network layer and 42,390 application layer DDoS attacks, mitigated by the company. The data was gathered…
CVE-2020-0022 is a potentially dangerous remote code execution vulnerability in Bluetooth. The bug is one of the fixes in the February security updates for Android. The flaw was unearthed and reported by German security researchers from ERNW. CVE-2020-0022: What Is…
Are you trying to remove Prodigy Search from your browser? This article may be able to help you. Prodigy Search is classified as a potentially unwanted application with browser-hijacking capabilities. Such apps are also ad-supported, which often leads to the…
Exploiting a viral topic for malicious purposes is something quite often seen is spam campaigns. This is what is happening now with the new strain of the coronavirus. A new spam, botnet-driven campaign is spreading malicious files masqueraded as documents…
The operators of TrickBot Trojan have once again updated its malicious code, and it is now capable of leveraging a new Windows 10 UAC bypass. Through this, the Trojan is capable of executing itself with elevated privileges without displaying a…
A new report by Swiss web security company ImmuniWeb focuses on the state of security of the world’s 100 biggest airports. The results of the analysis reveal that 97 of 100 airports lack efficient protection in their systems to defend…
In 2019, Google has paid more than $6.5 million in rewards as part of its Vulnerability Reward Programs. 461 researchers reported bugs and received bounties, the biggest one of which is $201,000, Google said in a blog post. “We paid…
Snake Ransomware was discovered by MalwareHunterTeam last week who shared it with Vitali Kremez to reverse engineer and learn more about the infection. A new ransomware was recently discovered by MalwareHunterTeam researchers. Dubbed Snake ransomware, the threat was reverse engineered…
70,000 Tinder photos of women are being circulated on an underground forum typically used for selling malware. The photos are entirely of women, and cybersecurity researchers believe the photos could be used for malicious purposes. The incident was first reported…
Australia has been hit by a serious data breach that took place on December 12, 2019. The largest member-owned bank in Western Australia, P&N Bank has been affected, when its CRM system was accessed by threat actors as a consequence.…
There’s a new large privacy incident regarding an unprotected database that affects 49 million business contacts. This database containing sensitive information is currently being sold on an underground hacking forum, ZDNet reports. It seems that the data comes from LimeLeads,…
A new critical security vulnerability that affects cable modems using Broadcom chips was just discovered. Dubbed Cable Haunt and identified as CVE-2019-19494, the vulnerability puts at risk some 200 million cable modems in Europe alone, the researchers who discovered it…
The Citrix flaw, CVE-2019-19781, was first identified in December 2019. The vulnerable products include the Citrix Application Delivery Controller (NetScaler ADC) and Citrix Gateway (NetScaler Gateway). Despite Citrix having shared mitigations to prevent attacks, proof-of-concent codes were released to the…
A recently discovered vulnerability in the Citrix Gateway (NetScaler Gateway), and the Citrix Application Delivery Controller (NetScaler ADC) could expose 80,000 companies to hacks. UPDATE. According to the latest information, there are working exploits against the CVE-2019-19781 flaw which allow…
Cybersecurity researcher known as Lynx has discovered a huge database on the public internet served from a computer with a Chinese IP address. The database contains the personal details of 56.25 million US residents. The details are very sensitive including…
Google Redirect Virus continues to plague users globally. This redirection is among the most dangerous, annoying, and difficult to remove infections that are now spreading through the World Wide Web. Google Redirect “Virus” The Google redirecting “virus” is causing redirection…
