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A Linux-based Monero miner botnet, which has been dubbed PyCryptoMiner has been discovered by security researchers. The botnet which is based on a cryptocurrency miner has earned cybercriminals at least 158 Monero which amounts to $63,000. PyCryptoMiner has been written…
The 2018 year started with some pretty major exploit discoveries. Named Meltdown and Spectre, these exploits are perhaps the most dangerous processor flaws that affect almost all modern processors. The security vulnerabilities affect whole generations of computers and devices of…
There is hardly a day without any privacy-related incident, data breach or vulnerability disclosure. It turns out that even many of the GPS services we use on a daily basis are full of multiple vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities, dubbed Trackmageddon could…
There is Bitcoin, and then there are the altcoins, the alternative cryptocurrencies created after the success of Bitcoin. According to many experts in the cybersecurity field, Bitcoin may no longer be the most preferable cryptocurrency used by cybercriminals in their…
phpMyAdmin, one of the most widely used applications for managing the MySQL database, has been found to contain a serious security flaw. The vulnerability could grant remote access to attackers allowing them to carry out dubious database operations by luring…
Modern advertising techniques are often borderline malicious, especially when it comes to the ways marketing companies gather users’ personal information. A team of researchers from Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy just discovered that at least two marketing companies are…
2018 is here and it’s already delivering some quite nasty vulnerabilities. A security researcher known as Siguza has just released detailed information on an unpatched zero-day flaw in macOS, which could lead to an attacker gaining root access on a…
This article will help you understand what the zeiss.exe miner malware process is and what it does to your system. You will also be provided with instructions on how to fully remove the malicious process from your system. Malware researchers…
The end of the year is approaching but cybercriminals know no rest. Another data breach has been detected, affecting Nissan. The company has notified that a possible data breach has happened, affecting their customers’ personal information. More specifically, the breach…
Yet another case of Android users being targeted by attackers involves the popularity of the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. More particularly, researchers have come across several fake Bitcoin wallets for Android. The malware family was dubbed PickBitPocket. Details about the PickBitPocket Malicious…
Because of current reports about laptops with corrupted BIOS after the installation of the latest version, Canonical has temporarily disabled download links for Ubuntu 17.10 “Artful Aardvark”. Lenovo, Other Laptops with Corrupted BIOS after Latest Canonical Install The reports are…
WordPress plugins often pose various threats to website owners. This is the case with a plugin named Captcha that was discovered to contain a backdoor. The plugin has been installed by 300,000 users. WordPress Captcha Plugin Contains a Backdoor, Wordfence…
Statistics from November this year revealed that 2,531 of the top 3 million websites are running the Coinhive miner, which amounts to 1 in 1,000 websites. To no one’s surprise, BitTorrent websites have been the main perpetrators. But they are…
Bitcoin has been in the center of attention for quite some time now. Besides investment interest, the cryptocurrency has been a huge part of the cybercriminals’ agenda that have been leveraging Bitcoin to collect ransomware payments from various victims –…
Android has been long targeted by attackers. There have been multiple cases of Android malware and ransomware, and even cryptocurrency miners posing as apps. Android has always been lucrative for malicious actors, and the quickly evolving threat landscape for the…
In January, 2017, China began officially transforming the Great Wall into the Great Firewall. This is when the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology published a statement on its official website stating that government officials were about to start…
Sunday afternoon Bitfinex once again announced via Twitter that the platform is under heavy DDOS, and that they working to bring it back online. Earlier this month, Bitfinex went through some major DDoS attacks. Let’s have a look at the…
PRILEX is the name of the latest strain of ATM malware that was discovered and analyzed by Trend Micro researchers. A previous version of this malware was spotted by Kaspersky in October this year. The malware has been used in…
Are you following the story of Net Neutrality? If you are, you are probably aware of what happened on Thursday. The Federal Communications Commission just voted to overturn Net Neutrality, the regulations making sure that ISPs like AT&T, Comcast, and…
Despite the multiple cases of fake or compromised Android apps, bad applications continue to sneak in, successfully bypassing any security measures Play Store has. 85 such applications were just removed from there. The apps were infected with malware that was…
