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Banking Trojans and ransomware are the top financial cyber threats, currently putting millions of users at risk. Besides the emergence of brand new threats, security researchers also observe already known and detected ones reemerging with updated code and capabilities. Retefe…
What Is Fake Google Update? The Fake Google Update is a virus located in “C:\ProgramData\Google\update\GoogleUpdate.exe”. It’s disguised to look like legitimate Google update, which can lead to unwitting installation if the user isn’t careful. Once installed, the virus spams ads…
Necurs is once again a threat to Web security. After a pause that continued for a few three weeks, the malware is back. The botnet has millions of units at its disposal and is one of (if not the) the…
Remember those times when using the Internet and (owning a personal computer) was a luxury? Those times were much safer, weren’t they? The more we become dependent on the Web, the more we expose ourselves to various security- and privacy-related…
A giant botnet operation created 3 million fake Twitter accounts in a single day, April 17, 2014! There are two other botnets with 100,000 bots each. The bots were probably created for sale or rent as fake Twitter followers. Some…
Akamai Reports a Brute-Force ATO Attack on Two of Their Customers Akamai’s security defenses picked up a one-week brute force attack from February 10-17, 2016. 93% of the attacker’s attempts was targeting two specific companies and three domains in the…
Reports have appeared about a new crypto virus, called NegozI ransomware. According to victims, the ransomware appends “.evil” extension to encrypted files and demands a payment in exchange for their decryption. Because of the extension it adds, some victims may…
Heimdal PRO version 2.2.6 by Heimdal Security is a second-generation security solution that is cloud-based and is complimentary to an anti-virus program already running on your computer. Heimdal PRO provides a second layer of protection for your system, specifically guarding…
Acer’s e-commerce site has been breached by an unknown third party. Customers who used the site from May 12, 2015 to April 28, 2016 may have their personal information stolen. Customer Names, Addresses, Credit Card Information and Three-Digit Security Codes…
After a security breach of VerticalScope, 45 million accounts have been hacked. Passwords, usernames, IP addresses and emails from over a thousand sites and forums have been stolen. It’s still unknown who carried out the attack. VerticalScope is a Toronto-based…
In a world of Google, Microsoft, Facebook, smartphones and the FBI, no one is really anonymous. Your social media addiction, along with your personally identifiable information stored in various databases around the world, has exposed you to the risk of…
Not only your personal computer and smartphone are prone to ransomware attacks. TrendMicro researchers just unveiled that your Android TV is also exposed to the risk of being locked and becoming unusable until a ransom is paid. The threat, dubbed…
LinkedIn is making the headlines once again: Microsoft has just announced that it is acquiring LinkedIn for $26 billion, $196 per share. The social network for professionals has 433 million users, and this means that Microsoft is getting hold of…
We all know about the dangers of torrents and pirated software, but nonetheless, there are still successful malicious campaigns based on popular torrent websites [and lesser educated users]. Such a campaign was just spotted by Symantec [who just acquired Blue…
Data breaches are [currently and generally] a major privacy issue, and that’s why we decided to ask you, our readers, how you feel about your credentials being exposed to exploits. The worst part is that the knowledge of data incidents…
“If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.” – Ronald Coase, Economist Big data. Data collection. Data mining. Data aggregation. Data technology. Data privacy. Data breach. What do all those big data terms mean and how are they…
Have you ever thought that it would be possible to stop a cyber attack before it happens? A startup company, Cylance, not only believes it is possible but it also has started an AI project to show us how. Meet…
Mega (data) breaches are a major public problem, even though the public may not be too interested in the subject. If you’re a user of popular social media such as LinkedIn, Myspace, Tumblr, and dating websites like BeautifulPeople, you shouldn’t…
Aleksandar Nikolic, a researcher at Cisco Talos, has discovered a vulnerability in PDFium, the default PDF reader in Google Chrome. The flaw is an arbitrary code execution one, and is outlined as CVE-2016-1681. The vulnerability can be exploited when a…
LinkedIn users in Europe should be extra careful, as a highly personalized malicious campaign has been started. The campaign’s payload is banking malware. Specific people have received tailored malicious emails in different languages. The users’ credentials that were offered for…
