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Padlock Screenlocker is one of the latest cases of not-very-successful computer infections. The screen locker is in fact a Trojan that displays a message stating that the victim’s files have been deleted, and the computer has been locked. Padlock Screenlocker…
A group of attackers has compromised the Bangladesh domain of Google. Hackers coming from Pakistan succeeded to deface the search engine page and replace it with their own message. Team Pak Cyber Attackers Deface Bangladesh Domain of Google The hackers’…
German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung said that it obtained excerpts of the internal documents that contain Facebook’s secret content removal policies. These are excerpts of internal documents that explain to content moderators what they need to do. To protect our sources,…
Lynda.com has been through a data breach. A user database consisting of 55,000 accounts has been accessed. Apparently, the passwords belonging to these accounts were salted and hashed. Lynda.com was bought by LinkedIn which has been acquired by Microsoft. Related:…
Washingpost.com in your referral traffic in Google Analytics is highly likely an indication of referral spam. More specifically, this campaign is quite similar to the Vitaly spam campaigns that have been quite active lately. The Russian spammer has been on…
o-o-8-o-o.com search shell is much better than google! – have you encountered this in your Google Analytics? It is the latest example of a new generation GA spam, already dubbed language spam. Apparently, the referral spam is linked to the…
Ransomware continuously made the headlines throughout 2016. And as the end of the year is approaching, security researchers are gathering statistics and drawing conclusions. Mistakes involving ransomware shouldn’t be repeated, especially on behalf of businesses where losses usually skyrocket. Related:…
December 2016’s Patch Tuesday has rolled out some crucial security updates, like KB3204059, the cumulative security update for Internet Explorer. This update is also known as MS16-44, and it should definitely be prioritized by IT administrators as it patches remote…
Encryption is now being used in DDoS attacks, Kaspersky researchers have found. The company has uncovered a specific attack exploiting vulnerabilities in WordPress via an encrypted channel. Because of the difficulty to identify them amongst clean requests, these attacks are…
Credit and debit cards are often targeted by cybercriminals looking to harvest users’ credentials and details. Luckily, there is a new service (called Privacy) which will take care of users’ online transactions in a curious and innovative manner – by…
Bad news for Android users – Doctor Web has uncovered two types of downloader Trojans implemented in the firmware of Android devices. The Trojans communicate with a command & control server to receive instructions about the apps to silently download…
Facebook has been granted an e-money license in the EU. The Central Bank of Ireland has given Facebook Payments International Limited (FBPIL) this license which allows the social media to facilitate peer-to-peer payments on its platform. Ireland is a member…
Facebook has long been a target for all kinds of scammers. The social network has often been leveraged in malware distribution campaigns. Cyren researchers just discovered a malicious Google Chrome extension that is spreading nude celebrity PDFs to Facebook groups.…
In 2016, ransomware has been extremely devastating for businesses, and the statistics prove it. A new report by Kaspersky Lab shows that ransomware attacks on companies tripled from January to September. This means that one in every five businesses was…
Security firm ESET has reported that millions of users have been exposed to malicious code served from the pixels in compromised banner ads. The end goal of the operation was the installation of Trojans and spyware on targeted systems. The…
Phishing continued to be one of the major online threats throughout 2016. Webroot statistics show that 84% of phishing sites were online for less than 24 hours, which makes their average life cycle less than 15 hours. These numbers show…
Several of the most influential tech companies have started a cooperation to identify digital information of violent terror content. From now on, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and YouTube will share with one another “violent terrorist imagery or terrorist recruitment videos or…
Tech giant Sony has just detected and terminated a debug backdoor in 80 of its Internet-connected surveillance cameras. The backdoor could be exploited to hijack the devices via malware such as the Mirai botnet. More specifically, the hardcoded logins in…
Dirty Cow may sound like someone’s favorite insult but it’s actually Google’s latest Android vulnerability addressed in the corresponding security update. This particular fix comes along with 49 flaws, 11 of which are rated critical fixes. Related: Do You Need…
Russia has just said that it succeeded to block a major cyber attack targeting the country’s financial system, more precisely the largest Russian banks. The attack most likely has been started by an unnamed foreign intelligence service. The FSB has…
