Berta is a dedicated malware researcher, dreaming for a more secure cyber space. Her fascination with IT security began a few years ago when a malware locked her out of her own computer.
The details on the new upcoming iPhone 6 and Apple Watch were announced yesterday. Both devices will be equipped with Apple’s new contactless mobile payment system – Apple Pay. Apple Pay enables phone payments at points-of-sale without sharing credit card…
Dyre, also known as Dyreza and Dyranges by Symantec, is a malware notorious for pursuing banking credentials. Dyre is focused mainly on the customers of Bank of America and Citibank, RBS and Natwest in the UK, and Ulster Bank in…
A message on Facebook that appears to be from a person in the user’s friend list, invites people to click on a link that is supposed to show a video of two little human-like creatures. Many users trust the link…
After the naked pictures of several celebrities have leaked online recently, and the Kelihos botnet phishing campaign managed to take advantage of the users’ worries spamming them with fake emails and thus collecting their Apple IDs, the issue with the…
Earlier this morning, unknown cyber criminals have leaked over 5 million Gmail usernames and passwords on the Internet. The database containing the credentials appeared on a Russian Bitcoin forum. All the passwords are presented in a .txt file. How the…
Shortly after the iCloud accounts of numerous celebrities have been compromised, the cyber crooks behind the Kelihos botnet started a new phishing campaign, targeting the owners of Apple online accounts. Russian IP Used for the Alleged Purchase The Symantec Research…
Kyle and Stan – A brand new malvertising network has been affecting Windows and Mac users who visit popular webpages such as amazon.com and youtube.com since May this year. The cybercriminals use Yahoo, Amazon and YouTube domains to infect users…
After the successful law enforcement operation in late May that took the Gameover Zeus botnet down, CrypoLocker was almost crushed. Yet, new ransomware arises. Along with the Gameover Zeus network of infected computers, a ransomware campaign was compromised as well…
Kovter ransomware infections have increased significantly in the second quarter of 2014, report malware researchers from the Damballa security firm. On average, the daily incidents have been up by 153% between April and May this year. The ransomware has reached…
Over 625 000 Computer Systems & 5.25 Billion Files Hostages Thanks to CryptoWall In the past six months, the users of more than 625 000 computers were attacked by the biggest and most destructive ransomware threat on Internet – CryptoWall.…
The Reveton Ransomware – Your System Is Locked and You Have No Money Left in Your Pocket The Reveton Ransomware is back, and it’s updated. A new credential-stealing feature has been added to the police-ransomware, using the new version of…
The users should be very happy – they have free and fast Windows web browsers that they can use, and all of them are in compliance with the new web standards. In addition, each browser has its advantages and features…
The Malicious Advertisements At the end of August malicious advertisements have been directing some of the visitors in several high profile websites to browser exploits that installed malware on their computers. In the period between 19th and 22nd August the…
The simplicity of the Google Drive applications is what makes them so popular among users. But don’t think that just because they are easy to operate, they do not have a great deal of power locked in them. The regular…
Kelihos Trojan has been spreading by hackers, attacking Russian nationals, leading them into the belief that this is software designed to attack online resources belonging to US and Western governments. The new malicious campaign by the cyber criminals appeals to…
Bitcoin is the most popular crypto-currency today with more than 2 million crypto currency wallet holders and almost 7 billion worth in US dollars. For a period of one year only the wallet users have risen in number by 500…
ZeroLocker is a new crypto-malware ransomware program which acts in the disguise of a decryption tool which can rescue the data that is locked by the different threats, in case the license of the program is purchased. As a rule,…
There are so many myths about PC slowdowns that sometimes computer users find it difficult to figure out the true reasons that cause the poor performance of their computers, so which are the top myths that are associated with computer…
Human beings are prone to mistakes but one mistake you want to avoid is to allow a hacker to access your computer and steal all your personal information. You can benefit from changing bad computer habits and prevent misfortunes by…
This week Google will launch a special Safe Browsing protection mechanism. It will be available in Chrome and will benefit from many capabilities including detection of deceptive software that aims to make undesired and unexpected changes to the computer of…
