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According to statistics provided by Andrew Ahn, Product Manager at Google, the company removed over 700,000 Android app from the Play Store last year. In 2017, the Google team took down more than 700,000 apps that violated the Google Play…
The infamous Dridex banking Trojan has now shifted towards ransomware in its FriedEx (also known as BitPaymer) variant. Image Source: ESET Related Story: Dridex Spread via Compromised OneDrive for Business Accounts “Dridex has been a nightmare for computer users, companies…
Stealing from Ransomware Operators and Ransomware Victims? Mission Possible, Says Onion.to Tor-to-web Proxy Service Security researchers at Proofpoint have reported that the operators of a Tor proxy service were detected replacing Bitcoin addresses on ransomware payment websites. This means that…
At least 2,000 WordPress websites have been compromised by a piece of malware designed to act like a cryptocurrency miner and a keystroke logger. The malware leverages the name of Cloudfare and was discovered several months ago by Sucuri researchers.…
The world’s biggest cryptocurrency theft (for now) is already a fact. Coincheck, the leading Bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchange in Asia as advertised on their website, has lost $530 million worth of cryptos. The theft has already caused a lot of…
Chrome 64 for Windows, Mac and Linux has just been made available by Google. The latest version of the browser features a more powerful pop-up blocker, 53 security fixes, and further mitigations against the Spectre flaw. At the end of…
Security researchers have detected another attack against users that are interested in cryptocurrency. A fake application masqueraded as wallet software is currently distributing ransomware and also has an information stealer bundled in the infection package, experts warn. The fake application…
A string of new spyware has been detected by security researchers. Dubbed Dark Caracal, the campaigns seem to be operating out of a government building in Lebanon. The campaigns have attacked thousands of victims in at least 21 countries. The…
The infamous Satori botnet has once again been caught in the wild, this time targeting rigs mining for the Ethereum cryptocurrency. Researchers dubbed this latest iteration Satori.Coin.Robber. Satori is a botnet that exploits a flaw in Huawei and a bug…
Researchers recently came across a piece of Trojan that deserves lots of attention due to its highly sophisticated spying capabilities. The Trojan is named Skygofree, after one of the domains it used, and its target is Android. Skygofree was discovered…
The BlackWallet browser-based wallet application has been compromised and 400,000 USD in user funds (in the Stellar Lumen cryptocurrency) were stolen from it. It’s still unknown who is behind this attack. To perform the attacks, hackers hijacked the DNS servers…
2018 is already here, and it has started pretty strong for cybersecurity with the disclosure of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities. However, the question still remains – what will this year bring in terms of malware coding, attacks on enterprises…
The following article will help you remove the Marlin.exe cryptocurrency (coin) miner which uses users’ GPUs to mine for an altcoin – SiaCoin. Once the miner is installed on a victim’s system in the form of a Trojan, the victim…
Until recently, exploit kits were mostly deployed to distribute ransomware. However, following the current trend in worldwide infections, cybercriminals have started using exploit kits for the distribution of cryptocurrency miners. Exploit Kits and Drive-By Downloads Actively Used in the Distribution…
Microsoft just made an important announcement on their support page regarding incompatibilities between antivirus programs and the Windows patches for Meltdown and Spectre. Microsoft identifies compatibility issue in how some AV programs handle the Meltdown and Spectre updates for Windows…
An article that has been created with the purpose to help you to remove the rthdcpl.exe process which is being exploited by a cryptocurrency miner. Cryptocurrency miner viruses are known to be after one thing only – taking advantage of…
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…
