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Have you been impatiently looking forward to Mr. Robot’s second season? Do you always have questions about the hacks that take place during the show? Are you often pausing to have a closer look at what’s written on that PC…
An industry analyst report by Forcepoint and Ponemon Institute, titled “The 2016 Study on the Insecurity of Privileged Users” has come to some troubling revelations. The study is based on results of a recent survey of some 704 IT operations…
Open-source ransomware is a real issue which is continuously evolving. Over the past few weeks, researchers have caught three open-source crypto virus strains, based on Hidden Tear and EDA2. What all of the three strains have in common is that…
September is expected to be a month riddled with malware. We have already seen several banking Trojans, some new and some renewed, and a strong wave of CrySiS/ Troldesh ransomware variants. However, this is far from everything happening on the…
Have you ever thought that a botnet of Android devices could be controlled via Twitter? This is no longer a theory because it has already happened, as disclosed by researchers at ESET. The botnet, dubbed Android/Twitoor or just Twitoor is…
GozNym, the banking Trojan that was detected in April 2016, has been just caught once again in a new active campaign. This time victims of the banker are German users. Researchers at IBM X-Force say that the Trojan has been…
Ransomware has moved from targeting hospitals to targeting universities. According to SentinelOne, six out of ten British universities have fallen victim to crypto virus attacks. The security firm has sent a FOI (Freedom of Information) request to 71 higher educational…
A base transceiver station (BTS) is a piece of equipment that aids wireless communication between user equipment (mobile phones, WLL phones, computers with wireless connectivity) and a network, such as wireless communication technologies like GSM, CDMA, wireless local loop, Wi-Fi,…
Does cyber security concern you? You may think not, but think twice! How secure is your data? Has the company you’ve been working for ever been hacked? Do you use public Wi-Fi? Have you backed up your data? Are you…
Besides ransomware, this month has seen some older banking Trojans equipped with new variants as well as completely new pieces. The latest banking Trojan that has been lurking around uses Microsoft PowerShell to change the victim’s PC local proxy settings…
“You can’t stop things like Bitcoin. It will be everywhere and the world will have to readjust. World governments will have to readjust” – John McAfee, Founder of McAfee The symbiotic relationship between Bitcoin and ransomware has sparked heated debates,…
Android is yet again being targeted by malware, this time by an updated version of a previously known Trojan. The Marcher Android Trojan has been recently upgraded and now it can show fake login screens. The Trojan is doing so…
Have you been impatiently looking forward to Mr. Robot’s second season? Do you always have questions about the hacks that take place during the show? Are you often pausing to have a closer look at what’s written on that PC…
Adwind RAT, one of the most spread RATs (Remote Access Trojans), has been recently rebranded, glamorously returning to the underground market with a new name – JBifrost. This is far from the first time the malware changes its name and…
The Sphinx Zeus banking Trojan first emerged in August 2015, exactly a year ago, but has been recently updated and detected in new campaigns. This time Sphinx is targeting Brazilian banks and Boleto, Brazilian payment methods. Not surprisingly, the attacks…
The Xorist ransomware family has been known to security researchers for a while now. A new variant of this family has just emerged and it has been identified as Team XRat, or just XRat. For now, the crypto virus specifically…
It’s no wonder that people are often wondering which the most secure browser is. Browsers are often leveraged in various attack scenarios, and even an updated browser can fall victim to attackers. One of the recent serious security issues that…
The Web is an amusing yet a very dangerous place. No matter whether you are “an average user” or a webmaster, you should always be prepared. Ransomware, vulnerabilities, security breaches, the list of online threats is endless. Fortunately, cyber criminals…
A new security vulnerability that can put a range of products at risk has been just disclosed by security researcher Jerry Decime. He has revealed shocking details about the flaw, dubbed FalseCONNECT. According to Decime’s analysis, the vulnerability can allow…
Have you installed Windows 10 already? If so, we have one question for you – did you install it with “Express settings”? If you have, this article may really bother you (if you care about your life’s privacy), and you…
