Users have increasingly started to report a browser hijacking software setting the page Tavanero.info which is a suspicious search engine as a home and a new tab of their web browsers. Among the web browsers that are influenced by this…
A ransomware virus, carrying the name Flyper, based on the HiddenTear virus project has been caught out in the wild to infect user PCs. The virus uses a very strong RSA-2048 file encryption mechanism to encipher the files of unsuspecting…
A virus pretending to be the CSTO, called Cry ransomware had been reported to use RSA-4096 and the .cry file extension to encrypt the files of computers infected by it. The virus wants it’s victims to pay the different sum,…
It’s already been 13 years since the powerful Blaster worm has hit the world. This may have yet been the first malware that attacked computers that were connected to important machines and institutions. Back then, many Windows XP systems were…
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…
DNS Unlocker has been around for a few years now, and still continues to be one of the most persistent adware pieces in the wild. In 2017, catching an intrusive and persistent potentially unwanted program like DNS Unlocker continues to…
A man from El Portal, Florida was arrested for gaining unauthorized access to the kernel.org (Linux Kernel) servers. According to the court, the hacker Ryan Austin used credentials to the servers of what appears to be an employee associated with…
Many services we use on a daily basis turn out to be quite buggy. This time our attention was caught by a vulnerability in the Yandex Browser, built on Chromium, which could have allowed attackers to steal users’ browsing history,…
A ransomware virus, belonging to the dangerous CryiSiS / XTBL family of viruses has been reported to leave behind the e-mail Melme@india.com for contact after encrypting files of it’s victims. The virus may encode important files such as videos, audio…
A ransomware virus belonging to the @india.com ransomware variants has been reported to encrypt user files using a strong encryption algorithm. After encryption, the Masterlock virus leaves a .crypt file extension along with a unique identification number. All users infected…
MirrorLink by Connected Car Consortium is the first industry standard for connecting smartphones to in-vehicle infotainment systems (IVI). A recent comprehensive research, titled ‘A Security Analysis of an In Vehicle Infotainment and App Platform’ and carried out by Damon McCoy,…
Have you ever clicked on a random link in your inbox or in a Facebook message? Despite knowing the risks? Well, you are not alone! A study by researchers at Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, discovered that people still…
A ransomware virus dubbed NullByte was reported by malware researchers to append the _nullbyte file extension to the files which it encrypts with a strong AES cipher. The name nullbyte originates from the NUL character in ASCII control code, suggesting…
A crypto-virus, known by the e-mail Cyber_Baba2@aol.com and also known as CPYPAURA variant at TrendMicro’s threat encyclopedia, has been reported to have a high level of infections. The virus encrypts the files of users who have been infected by it,…
If your PC has been attacked by CryptFuck ransomware virus, read this article carefully before you take any further actions. CryptFuck virus has just been released and spotted by malware researchers. It’s based on the open-source of the Hidden Tear…
Cerber3 ransomware virus is already a fact, as accountable by several tweets by security researchers. The crypto virus is most likely appending the .cerber3 extension to victims’ encrypted files. The ransom note is titled # HELP DECRYPT #.txt. Not too…
This article will help you remove .cerber3 file extension virus (Locky ransomware) successfully. Follow the ransomware removal instructions below. One of the most devastating viruses out there – Cerber ransomware has been released in a 3rd version, adding a .cerber3…
A hijacking software associated with the suspicious search engine, reffered to as Ustarts.xyz has been reported by malware researchers. The potentially harmful program may collect user information, cause browser redirects and heavily modify the settings of the web browsers Google…
Troy Hunt, owner of HaveIBeenPwned, just reported that 71,000 user accounts and IP addresses have been leaked from a Minecraft fan website (minecraftworldmap(.)com). The dumps include email addresses, IP addresses, usernames and passwords associated with that site. The leaked passwords…
A new spam campaign delivering the Ozone RAT has been detected targeting German-speaking users. The attack is spread via malicious Office documents. However, instead of the well-known macro malware, the operation ends with the installation of Ozone. Interestingly, users are…
