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The mythological battle between Cerberus and Hercules quite a lot resembles the battle between cyber criminals and researchers. Whose side are you on? The employment of SEO techniques in malware (and ransomware) distribution is not news. Blackhat SEO campaigns are…
Do you know a person who hasn’t owned a Nokia? Well, we don’t, and apparently the Nokia trend is about to be revived. According to the website NokiaPowerUser, two Nokia Android phones are being developed at the moment, as per…
Follow the money – that’s basically the one rule you need to apply to get to the bottom of… everything, including malware. That being said, the UK National Crime Agency (NCA) not only did follow the money but also arrested…
Locky ransomware is back once again, this time being spread by a new exploit kit, based on the previously known Sundown. The new exploit kit is dubbed Bizarro Sundown and was first noticed on October 5 and then again on…
Have you heard of wix(.)com? Wix.com is a cloud-based web development platform designed for users to build HTML5 web sites and mobile sites through the use of the company’s online drag and drop tools. Unfortunately, a serious XSS bug has…
Personal security usually starts with your device. The more unsecure devices are out there, the better is the mechanism behind data breaches and malware infections. So, if you want to be safe and sound, start with your device. Device Security…
Artificial intelligence is changing all aspects of the modern life, our online security included. Machine learning in particular is making its way to forever altering the mechanisms of endpoint protection. The future is literally happening at this very moment, as…
If the Internet is your primary source of news that matter, you must have read about the new “groundbreaking rules” adopted by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. These rules are set to force all Internet providers such as Verizon, Comcast…
ProtonMail and Google are in the midst of an altercation. Shortly put, the encryption-savvy company says that Google may have attempted to affect the way ProtonMail shows up in search results. ProtonMail has been attracting more users with its encrypted…
There’s not a single organization that isn’t susceptible to data compromises. The list of various organizations and services that have been through data breaches is getting longer on a daily basis. And now, apparently, the Australian Red Cross should be…
Meet CVE-2016-7855, yet another Adobe Flash Player vulnerability of the zero-day type. Adobe has already released a security bulletin, APSB16-36, addressing the issue in versions of Flash from 23.0.0.185 and earlier affected by the flaw. Linux users should keep in…
“In the next century, planet Earth will don an electronic skin. It will use the Internet as a scaffold to support and transmit its sensations. This skin is already being stitched together. It consists of millions of embedded electronic measuring…
CVE-2016-5195 is a Linux vulnerability in the wild which is most likely found in every Linux version for the last nine years. Linux users should consider installing a security patch immediately. The vulnerability is a Kernel Local Privilege Escalation one…
Would anyone be surprised with the news that the U.K.’s spy agencies (GCHQ and MI5) breached the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) by covertly collecting bulk data about British citizens’ communications (content excluded)? This is exactly what a U.K.…
Meet TrickBot, a relatively new banking Trojan believed to be a close relative of the old Dyre banker. According to researchers at Fidelis Cybersecurity, TrickBot, detected in September 2016 has a lot in common with Dyre. In case you don’t…
The Acecard Android Trojan has been around for quite some time. We wrote about Acecard in February this year, but in fact the malware has been attacking devices since 2014, when it was first detected. Back in February, the Trojan…
There’s a new Linux Trojan, dubbed Linux/NyaDrop, and it’s already reverse engineered by MalwareMustDie. This is in fact the same researcher that discovered Mirai. The Mirai IoT botnet was used in multiple attacks and had a global infection rate. The…
Android may also be prone to backdoor access – through a debugging feature in the OS bootloader. However, only devices that have firmware developed by Foxconn appear to be inclined to this vulnerability. The OS bootloader can act as a…
2016 has seen the highest rates of malware in terms of online shops running on platforms such as Magento and OpenCart. To conclude that, researcher Willem de Groot from Byte.nl has been analyzing online stores infected with malware since November…
A new case study by blockchain analytics startup Skry and infosec firm Terbium Labs has analyzed millions of URLs in order to outline the most popular sites for illegal Bitcoin trade. The researchers were also able to identify the most…
