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Software companies and social services often rely on bug hunters to discover vulnerabilities in their products. However, sometimes misunderstandings happen, and as in the current case, legal actions may be threatened. Wesley Weinberg is a senior security researcher at Synack.…
Trojans that can act as backdoors are particularly alarming since they enable malicious actors to perform a range of dangerous activities. Trojan.Sakurel.B is classified as a backdoor type of a Trojan that is currently active in the wild. In order…
Unfortunately, Facebook hoaxes and scams are something quite regular, and many users get fooled on a daily basis. One of the currently viral hoaxes involves IKEA. An image of a dinner table dubbed Hadolf shaped like a swastika has been…
Have you met KB 3035583? It’s one of the Win10-related updates that Microsoft has tried to push not just once or twice. This is the official description of KB 3035583 found on Support.Microsoft.com: This update installs the Get Windows 10…
Ransomware is restless, and so are the malicious actors behind it who are currently infecting millions of users. At the end of 2015, we are seeing new versions of encrypting families that have been active in the past. XRTN ransomware…
Are you the type of person that prefers to do their shopping online? Just before the winter holidays, online shopping is the savior for many of us who don’t have enough time to go to actual shopping. If you recognize…
Security experts will definitely stumble upon more and more backdoors and botnets, as we are witnessing an increased infection rate of ransomware and APTs (advanced persistent threats). Interestingly enough, newly detected backdoors and botnets may not be new at all.…
TeslaCrypt, also known as AlphaCrypt, Cryptesla, and Tescrypt is one of the most prevalent crypto viruses (or ransomware) at the moment, the other one being CryptoWall. Recently, we witnessed a freshly updated version of TeslaCrypt. This version was encrypting the…
A new ransomware, or more likely, a new version of a well-known ransomware, is currently using an encryption algorithm even stronger than RSA-2048. The ransomware piece claims to have employed RSA-4096. Unfortunately, one of our own users has contacted us…
A severe threat known as Trojan:Win32/Usascape.A has surfaced the Web and is currently infecting unprotected machines. Trojan:Win32/Usascape.A is most likely exploiting a particular software vulnerability to get into a system. More information is needed to confirm the exact distribution method…
Fugdownload143(.)com is a potentially unwanted program (PUP), particularly classified as a browser hijacker. It attaches itself to a browser, modifies the homepage, and may also change the new tab window, search engine or even add a browser extension. You can…
Just because a malicious attack is happening in a region across the globe doesn’t mean that your country will be spared. Malware moves fast, and is currently out of control. No one seems to be spared or protected enough… including…
WordPress has been a target to cyber attacks not once and twice, and it continues to be a favorite target. Just recently a new data breach has been affected WP Engine, a US-based hosting provider. Client Passwords Exposed in the…
Bifrose, also known as Bifrost, Backdoor:Win32/Bifrose and Backdoor.Bifrose, is a Trojan with backdoor capabilities first discovered in 2004. Just recently, researchers at TrendMicro have detected a new cyber-espionage attack set by a resourceful and well organized criminal group, which targets…
We often warn our readers about the various threats in the cyber space. Your computer can be compromised even by entering a legitimate, popular website visited on a regular basis. Malicious actors often attack such pages as part of bigger…
A rare DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack has been registered on the Internet’s DNS root servers. More particularly, four nodes – B, C, G, and H – have been affected by slight timeouts. Two different attacks have been carried out by…
Microsoft’s December Patch Tuesday is already a fact. MS15-DEC contains twelve security bulletins, eight of which critical and four – important. All critical updates are dealing with remote code execution vulnerabilities. Two of the important updates are taking care of…
Multiple user complaints have been registered concerning Microsoft’s latest Windows 10 v 1511 update KB 3122947. Many users say that they got the update but it failed to install. As a result, error 0x80070643 was displayed. However, not all Windows…
A new rare technique, used by a cybercriminal group to steal payment card data, has been identified by security researchers. Cyber criminals are using a piece of sophisticated malware that is activated before the Windows operating system boots. Hence, the…
In the beginning of 2015, the security researchers Gabriel Lawrence and Chris Frohoff revealed a Remote Code Execution vulnerability that could be exploited via the Apache Commons Collections. The latter is just one of the most well-known and widely used…
