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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…
The final Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday for 2017 has just rolled. Even though this is not the worst batch of updates released throughout the year, there are still several notable vulnerabilities that were addressed and that need our attention. Such flaws…
Weak password security continues to be a huge issue despite the hundreds of misfortunate cases of leaked password databases, hacks and other incidents of the sort. The bad habit of using the same password over and over again across multiple…
Security researcher Michael Myng also known as ZwClose discovered a driver-level keylogger on HP laptops. The bug has been now solved via an emergency patch issued by Hewlett Packard. Hundreds of HP laptops were affected, including HP G2 Notebooks, the…
The Quant Trojan is now targeting Bitcoin cryptocurrency wallets, researchers warn. Forcepoint researchers recently came across an active Quant loader admin panel that was hosted on a new domain. The domain was also hosting several other malware samples. At first,…
PayPal is one of the many big, multi-national companies that have been through a data breach. Apparently, the service has suffered an indirect breach in its recently acquired payment processor TIO Networks. The result is that some 1.6 million customers…
Researchers at IBM have detected a new variant of the Ursnif Trojan whose developers have been testing a new feature in active attacks. This piece of malware is based on the code of the original Ursnif or Gozi ISFB, but…
Drive-by cryptomining also known as cryptojacking has turned into one of the major threats to online users. Researchers are coming across more and more cases of abuse involving Coinhive. The Coinhive mining within a browser explained What is Coinhive? Coinhive…
A new variant of Mirai just before Christmas? Sure, why not! Qihoo 360 Netlab researchers just witnessed new uptick while tracking botnet activity associated with a new variant of the well-known Mirai IoT malware. Users should be aware that ports…
Mozilla and HaveIBeenPwned.com are joining forces to alert users when they are about to visit a site that has been hacked. This would happen via an in-browser notification thanks to which the user will be informed about the possible hacked…
Linux users, beware. A number of Linux distros are at risk due to a bug in systemd. The flaw is located in systemd’s DNS resolver and could lead to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on affected systems, TrendMicro researchers warn. The vulnerability…
New day, new vulnerability. HP has just released firmware patches to address a security bug disclosed by FoxGlove researchers, which enabled hackers to carry out remote code execution attacks on enterprise-grade printers. The flaw in question has been identified as…
Black Friday is a reminder that the winter holidays are near. Christmas means presents, presents mean shopping, which for various reasons often happens online. Unfortunately, the ever increasing number of people shopping online means more scams specifically designed to target…
What malware researchers usually encounter in their daily malware analyses is reused code. As a matter of fact, reusing code is something all developers tend to do, malicious coders inclusive. Most new malware is in fact reused, re-branded source code…
Have you heard about the accidental freeze of $300 million worth of Ether that happened to the Parity wallet? Already called the biggest cryptocurrency loss in the short life of cryptocurrencies, this event is not a classical hack. The money…
Crypto mining has proven to be one of the major threats of 2017, with the tendency to continue to be so in 2018. Cryptocurrency miners’ impact on user machines is quite destructive. Researchers found out that miners such as the…
A new banking Trojan has been reported IBM X-Forse team – the IcedID Trojan. According to researchers, the piece emerged in the wild in September last year. This is when its first campaigns took place. The Trojan has sophisticated capabilities…
New statistics reveal 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 are the main perpetrators. But they are not the only ones.…
Plausibly 1 out of 5 feedback reports from Chrome desktop users is about encountering unwanted redirects and content, Ryan Schoen from Google has shared. Because Google is always trying to improve user experience, Chrome will soon be blocking several types…
14 flaws in Linux kernel USB drivers were just disclosed by Google researcher Andrey Konovalov. The researcher found the vulnerabilities by deploying a kernel fuzzler known as syzkaller. The “14 vulnerabilities found with syzkaller in the Linux kernel USB subsystem……
