Aleksandar Nikolic, a researcher at Cisco Talos, has discovered a vulnerability in PDFium, the default PDF reader in Google Chrome. The flaw is an arbitrary code execution one, and is outlined as CVE-2016-1681. The vulnerability can be exploited when a…
ArmorArcade(.)com is a site of an adware gaming platform called ArmorArcade. The website delivers advertisements to you when you browse its content. Also, other sites can link to it. The adware can redirect you other gaming platforms or online pages.…
FVPimageviewer(.)com is one of the web domains of a browser hijacker bearing the same name. You can find a download link for the related app on the page. When hijacking your browsers, the unwanted program will change lots of settings…
A notorious Browser Hijacking application has been reported to become even more popular, making it to be one the of top 4000 websites regarding traffic at this moment. The application aims to heavily modify the computer it`s installed on, changing…
LinkedIn users in Europe should be extra careful, as a highly personalized malicious campaign has been started. The campaign’s payload is banking malware. Specific people have received tailored malicious emails in different languages. The users’ credentials that were offered for…
Search.searchsmg(.)com is the search engine of a gaming application called SuperMegaGaming. The program is developed by SaferBrowser and can hijack the browsers found on your computer. The company is infamous with their activity of creating such programs. To remove the…
Rapid7, a security firm, has just released a vast report (“National Exposure Index: Inferring Internet Security Posture by Country through Port Scanning“) focused on the nations mostly exposed to risks of Internet-based attacks. Researchers found that wealthier and more developed…
Ransomware, carrying the name Herbst (Autumn) has been the reason of people complaining they no longer have access to their files. What this cryptovirus also familiar as ransomware does is it uses a strong AES-256 encryption standard to encode the…
Image Source: https://blog.checkpoint.com Facebook is far from invincible. In fact, it may be way too easy for attackers to exploit vulnerabilities, especially when it comes to its standard chat function and its separate Messenger app. This is exactly what CheckPoint…
Ransomware, meant for Russian speaking users, named Lortok has been reported to encrypt the files on the devices it infects by using an AES-256 cipher. When the files are encrypted, they are modified, and the .crime file extension is added…
Computer systems have been infected with a virus that tries to imitate the CryptoWall 3.0 ransomware. The virus is also a ransomware type as it locks files and leaves a ransom message demanding 0.5 BitCoins to be paid for a…
Mega data breaches affect all kinds of users, even famous ones like Mark Zuckerberg. Apparently, a hacker from a group dubbed OurMine Team succeeded to take over Zuckerberg’s Twitter and Pinterest accounts, using credentials leaked during the major LinkedIn incident,…
Flimrans is a ransomlock virus belonging to the Police Ransomware variants. Such variants lock down the computer of the user preventing any access what so ever to it. The random lock virus leaves instructions on how to pay a fee…
New Update! Malware researchers from Kaspersky have updated their Rannoh Decryptor utility with decryption for the CryptXXX 3.0 ransomware family. Files should be fully decrypted with the help of that software. You can find its download page and instructions at:…
File encryption virus belonging to the id variants has been let loose to infect unsuspecting user. The malware is named JuicyLemon, and it belongs to the “id” ransomware viruses. The cyber-criminals behind JuicyLemon use a strong cipher to encode files…
In general, ransomware like CryptXXX/UltraCrypter sneaks into the victim’s computer and encrypts their files, appending an extension (.cryp1 in the case of UltraCrypter) and demanding payments in exchange for the files’ decryption. However, things can get more unfortunate, as ransomware…
Search.searchwag(.)com a search engine that hijacks browsers on your computer, and is developed by SaferBrowser. That company is known to make such hijacker software. To remove the unwanted program and everything related to it, you should read the article till…
PrimaScope(.)com is a website of a platform hosting horoscope readings and other things. PrimaScope is considered adware because of all advertisements it generates. You can be redirected from the adverts and directed to sites related to the adware. A browser…
If you’re running an outdated WordPress, Drupal or some other CMS, you are in high danger of hacking. What is worse is that Mossack Fonseca, the law firm associated with the Panama Papers breach, already became a victim in such…
Ad-maven(.)com is the site of a platform for performance marketing. Ad-maven is considered adware in terms of producing a multitude of adverts redirecting you to various websites. They also gain money from those services and the internet traffic that their…
