SPOILERS ALERT! 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…
Unfortunately, Google Play is full of booby traps and users should always be careful with the apps they install. Recent examples of applications that turned out to be more than what the user has bargained for are: Flash Keyboard Candy…
It’s common knowledge that ransomware has become the most feared and destructive online threat, putting the biggest of corporations on their knees. Security researchers expect it to continue evolving, in 2016 and perhaps beyond. To understand where ransomware and generally…
In late 2015, security firm SentinelOne added a brand new feature to their endpoint detection products designed specifically to restore files encrypted by ransomware. When we wrote about the company’s plans to release this solution, the component was supposed to…
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…
Cisco Talos security researchers have unveiled security vulnerabilities (CVEs) which could compromise Mac OS X devices. The flaws enable attackers to harvest the user’s data and can lead to remote code execution and device hijacking. The total number of the…
The well-known Norwegian company Opera has been sold to the Chinese company Qihoo 360, experts indicate. The deal was worth 600 million United States dollars, according to estimated reports. At the beginning of the deal, the Chinese consortium has attempted…
Are you an active Tinder user? Be careful because the popular location-based dating app has now become a target of a scam, and a clever one indeed. If you’re tricked by it, you may end up losing up to $100…
Nowadays, any international event has the potential to become exploited by hackers. The 2016 Summer Olympics, or simply referred to as Rio 2016, are definitely going to attract malicious attention, and security researchers are already making prognosis as to what…
Security researchers at enSilo have come to some shocking conclusions in terms of the hooking and injection methods employed by various vendors. Their research started in 2015 when they noticed an injection issue in AVG. Later, they found similar problems…
How safe are my credit card data and credentials? Because cyber crooks are continually working towards improving their methods, this is a question that deserves addressing on a daily basis. New Scam Combines Phishing and Infection of Legitimate Pages to…
Microsoft Office vulnerabilities are cyber criminals’ favorites. Two of the more recent flaws – CVE-2015-1641 and CVE-2015-2545 – are quickly stepping up the malware game and seem to be replacing the all-time-favorite CVE-2012-0158. The latter leveraged a weak spot in…
Ever since the privacy scandal, Pokemon GO has been a hot discussion topic. However, a new issue is now added to the pile of problems that Pokemon GO creators need to face – a DDoS attack carried out by PoodleCorp.…
Spoilers alert! 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…
All in One SEO Pack is one of the most popular plugins for WordPress. It is actually the most downloaded plugin, with approximately 30 million downloads! Any security-related issue with such a trendy application would be a nightmare for users.…
Last month, a Senrio research team discovered an exploit in some of D-Link’s Wi-Fi cameras that could potentially be used to take full control of hacked devices. That way the cameras can be used for a number of malicious activities,…
The Kovter malware family has been plaguing systems for many years and seems to be restless. A new click-ad-fraud strain of fileless Kovter is currently being spread via drive-by download attacks. The infection is triggered by a legitimate Mozilla Firefox…
Avast Software has just announced their intentions to acquire AVG Technologies, the company that owns the popular AVG Antivirus program. The announcement was made today in the form of a blog post by Avast’s CEO Vincent Steckler. Shortly put, Avast…
How does an unpatched UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) vulnerability in Lenovo ThinkPad firmware sound? This is exactly the type of vulnerability independent security researcher Dmytro Oleksiuk recently “stumbled upon” – a zero-day that exists not only in Lenovo but…
Pirrit Adware (Adware.Pirrit, Adware: Win32/Pirrit) was detected plaguing Windows systems in 2014. The adware now has a Mac variant, first thought to be nothing out of the ordinary. Security analysis shows that OSX.Pirrit is more complicated and capable of malicious…
