GamesLagoon(.)com is a site of an adware gaming platform called GamesLagoon. The website is filled with online games and in almost every game you can see ads. Additional advertisements can fill your browsers if you are on the site. Other…
Ransomware virus from the “@” family has been reported yet again on security forums to encrypt files of unsuspecting users. The ransomware is believed to be widespread via e-mails that contain malicious attachments and it uses a powerful cipher to…
“If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.” – Ronald Coase, Economist Big data. Data collection. Data mining. Data aggregation. Data technology. Data privacy. Data breach. What do all those big data terms mean and how are they…
Ransomware, known as CryFile has been reported to infect computers primarily in Russia. This nasty crypto-virus is reported to encrypt files of the infected users, denying them access to them. The newly encrypted files have the .criptiko, .criptoko, .criptokod, .cripttt,…
Search.easyweatheraccess(.)com is the search engine of a browser hijacker app named Easy Weather Access. The hijacker is developed by SaferBrowser and can take control of the browsers on your computer. SaferBrowser is has a bad fame when it comes to…
Have you ever thought that it would be possible to stop a cyber attack before it happens? A startup company, Cylance, not only believes it is possible but it also has started an AI project to show us how. Meet…
Mega (data) breaches are a major public problem, even though the public may not be too interested in the subject. If you’re a user of popular social media such as LinkedIn, Myspace, Tumblr, and dating websites like BeautifulPeople, you shouldn’t…
The Jigsaw ransomware makes its appearance yet again. This time, it is called Payms. The crypto-virus encrypts more than 120 file extensions like previous variants, adding a .payms extension or a variation of it. Unfortunately, the Jigsaw ransomware is sold…
Android is an amazing operating system, mainly because of one and only feature – customization. However, some phone brands release their devices with some automatically configured settings because not every user is capable of dealing with advanced settings themselves. It…
The notorious Troldesh family of ransomware viruses has just increased with a new variant. The new crypto-ransomware variant encrypts the user files adding a .Better_call_saul file extension after them. It is reported by researchers at Nyxbone to utilize a powerful…
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…
