Yet another case of Android users being targeted by attackers involves the popularity of the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. More particularly, researchers have come across several fake Bitcoin wallets for Android. The malware family was dubbed PickBitPocket. Details about the PickBitPocket Malicious…
Because of current reports about laptops with corrupted BIOS after the installation of the latest version, Canonical has temporarily disabled download links for Ubuntu 17.10 “Artful Aardvark”. Lenovo, Other Laptops with Corrupted BIOS after Latest Canonical Install The reports are…
WordPress plugins often pose various threats to website owners. This is the case with a plugin named Captcha that was discovered to contain a backdoor. The plugin has been installed by 300,000 users. WordPress Captcha Plugin Contains a Backdoor, Wordfence…
Bitcoin has been in the center of attention for quite some time now. Besides investment interest, the cryptocurrency has been a huge part of the cybercriminals’ agenda that have been leveraging Bitcoin to collect ransomware payments from various victims –…
Android has been long targeted by attackers. There have been multiple cases of Android malware and ransomware, and even cryptocurrency miners posing as apps. Android has always been lucrative for malicious actors, and the quickly evolving threat landscape for the…
In January, 2017, China began officially transforming the Great Wall into the Great Firewall. This is when the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology published a statement on its official website stating that government officials were about to start…
Sunday afternoon Bitfinex once again announced via Twitter that the platform is under heavy DDOS, and that they working to bring it back online. Earlier this month, Bitfinex went through some major DDoS attacks. Let’s have a look at the…
PRILEX is the name of the latest strain of ATM malware that was discovered and analyzed by Trend Micro researchers. A previous version of this malware was spotted by Kaspersky in October this year. The malware has been used in…
Are you following the story of Net Neutrality? If you are, you are probably aware of what happened on Thursday. The Federal Communications Commission just voted to overturn Net Neutrality, the regulations making sure that ISPs like AT&T, Comcast, and…
Despite the multiple cases of fake or compromised Android apps, bad applications continue to sneak in, successfully bypassing any security measures Play Store has. 85 such applications were just removed from there. The apps were infected with malware that was…
The final Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday for 2017 has just rolled. Even though this is not the worst batch of updates released throughout the year, there are still several notable vulnerabilities that were addressed and that need our attention. Such flaws…
Weak password security continues to be a huge issue despite the hundreds of misfortunate cases of leaked password databases, hacks and other incidents of the sort. The bad habit of using the same password over and over again across multiple…
Security researcher Michael Myng also known as ZwClose discovered a driver-level keylogger on HP laptops. The bug has been now solved via an emergency patch issued by Hewlett Packard. Hundreds of HP laptops were affected, including HP G2 Notebooks, the…
The security community has reported that the NjRat Lime Edition Trojan has recently been updated with a new ransomware component. The fact that this hacking tool is popular among computer criminals both on the underground hacker markets and the communities…
Google has delivered their last and probably final Android update for 2017. The bulletin amends a total of 47 vulnerabilities. Among them there are five critical remote code execution issues that are particularly worrisome. The Last Android Update for 2017…
The Quant Trojan is now targeting Bitcoin cryptocurrency wallets, researchers warn. Forcepoint researchers recently came across an active Quant loader admin panel that was hosted on a new domain. The domain was also hosting several other malware samples. At first,…
PayPal is one of the many big, multi-national companies that have been through a data breach. Apparently, the service has suffered an indirect breach in its recently acquired payment processor TIO Networks. The result is that some 1.6 million customers…
Researchers at IBM have detected a new variant of the Ursnif Trojan whose developers have been testing a new feature in active attacks. This piece of malware is based on the code of the original Ursnif or Gozi ISFB, but…
Drive-by cryptomining also known as cryptojacking has turned into one of the major threats to online users. Researchers are coming across more and more cases of abuse involving Coinhive. The Coinhive mining within a browser explained What is Coinhive? Coinhive…
Security researchers uncovered a dangerous Facebook bug which allows hackers and malicious users to delete photos of users without accessing their accounts. The vulnerability was found to be part of the newly implemented poll feature. Facebook Bug Can Trigger Arbitrary…
