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…
A new scam on Facebook has reappeared – account cloning. It has been spotted in 2012 and now users have posted complaints that the scam is back again. The scam has already affected some people and scammers have obtained money…
Flash keyboard is an alternative Android keyboard that’s sold on the official Google Play store. The app could be considered malware, as the permissions required are used to collect personal information. Flash Keyboard has been installed more than 50 million…
The new version of Ubuntu is here, and it has a long list of bug improvements, added features, and improved existing ones. Although many reviewers claim the operating system is significantly better, some still believe there are some issues that…
Android malware, and respectively Android security, is no joke. The mobile OS is constantly being attacked by malicious apps, draining the victim’s personal and banking information. The latest Android overlay malware case registered by security researchers at FireEye is no…
What Is Clickjacking? Clickjacking is exactly what it sounds – hijacking your click. It’s a way to trick Internet users to click on something they wouldn’t want to click on voluntarily. It’s achieved through visual misinformation. The user clicks on…
Tavis Ormandy has found and reported multiple vulnerabilities in Symantec’s security products, endangering both home users and enterprises. The story doesn’t end with his disclosure of the terrifying CVE-2016-2208, found in the core Symantec Antivirus Engine applied in most Symantec…
A very intriguing and intensive DDoS/botnet attack has been just investigated by security researchers at US security vendor Sucuri. The botnet in question comprises of more than 25,000 bots targeting businesses at a global level. More specifically, it’s a Layer…
The group OurMIne hacks yet another CEO of a juggernaut company. This time, the victim is Google’s Sundar Pichai. He’s the third Silicon Valley executive that was hacked by the group since last month. Facebook creator Mark Zuckerburg and Twitter’s…
It’s always good news when a prevalent malicious threat is taken down. However, cyber criminals quickly regroup and as a result, new ones appear on the threat landscape. Nuclear EK Exits the Malware-as-a-Service Market Exploit kits have been a major…
Necurs is once again a threat to Web security. After a pause that continued for a few three weeks, the malware is back. The botnet has millions of units at its disposal and is one of (if not the) the…
A giant botnet operation created 3 million fake Twitter accounts in a single day, April 17, 2014! There are two other botnets with 100,000 bots each. The bots were probably created for sale or rent as fake Twitter followers. Some…
Risks in the Age of Cyber-Breaches, Viruses and Hacks Nowadays almost all walks of life pass through the cyberspace, shopping, banking, media coverage, entertainment, even day to day interaction between friends and family members. A big part of our life…
Akamai Reports a Brute-Force ATO Attack on Two of Their Customers Akamai’s security defenses picked up a one-week brute force attack from February 10-17, 2016. 93% of the attacker’s attempts was targeting two specific companies and three domains in the…
Acer’s e-commerce site has been breached by an unknown third party. Customers who used the site from May 12, 2015 to April 28, 2016 may have their personal information stolen. Customer Names, Addresses, Credit Card Information and Three-Digit Security Codes…
After a security breach of VerticalScope, 45 million accounts have been hacked. Passwords, usernames, IP addresses and emails from over a thousand sites and forums have been stolen. It’s still unknown who carried out the attack. VerticalScope is a Toronto-based…
In a world of Google, Microsoft, Facebook, smartphones and the FBI, no one is really anonymous. Your social media addiction, along with your personally identifiable information stored in various databases around the world, has exposed you to the risk of…
Not only your personal computer and smartphone are prone to ransomware attacks. TrendMicro researchers just unveiled that your Android TV is also exposed to the risk of being locked and becoming unusable until a ransom is paid. The threat, dubbed…
