In the beginning of 2015, the security researchers Gabriel Lawrence and Chris Frohoff revealed a Remote Code Execution vulnerability that could be exploited via the Apache Commons Collections. The latter is just one of the most well-known and widely used…
A new browser hijacker, connected with the suspicious search engine Searchgenius has been reported to take over browser home pages and insert custom search results linking to different websites some of which may redirect to or be malicious for the…
A new Trojan targeting Android devices – Rootnik – has just been analyzed by security vendors. Rootnik is designed to use a customized commercial root tool known as Root Assistant, developed by a Chinese company. Root Assistant was developed to…
A website, going by the name Check24.updater-checker(.)net has been reported to cause redirects to suspicious websites, according to experts. The site itself has been reported to be caused due to having adware on your computer. Although currently the website redirects…
Miuref.B is an Infostealer type of Trojan horse. It aims to get confidential information from a targeted computer. That information may include financial, computer or credential data. When the information is collected, it is sent to different remote locations. Also,…
Here are the results of our poll… Windows updates should be as painless as possible. However, we’ve been seeing mostly awkwardness coming from latest Microsoft patches. The way Windows updates are installed on your machine seems to be more important…
A new ransomware reported with the domain weekendwarrior55.com redirecting to mail.ru has been reported to encrypt user files with random extensions. Users have increasingly begun complaining that the malicious program has corrupted their data. However, unlike other ransomware, this particular…
Windows 10 may be advertised as the best version of Microsoft’s operating system. However, its dubious reputation among users and professionals has flipped the coin multiple times. There may be two sides to every story, but Microsoft really needs to…
Referral spam redirecting to Heavengifts(.)com by a web link, called Quit-smoking(.)ga has been reported to increase rapidly. The referral spam is believed to spread via a combination of Web Crawlers as well as Ghost Referral spam bots. It is highly…
If you haven’t heard – we’re in the midst of a ransomware tsunami. However, disasters often come in pairs. The vicious ransomware attacks are triggered by a strong current of fake tech-support scams. The double threat is currently sweeping away…
“Yoursearching(.)com” is a potentially unwanted program (PUP), more specifically classified as a browser hijacker. After being installed on your computer, it will attach itself to a browser, change the homepage, the new tab page, and the search engine. As a…
When a series of malicious attacks are taking place, be sure that botnets are involved. Botnets are one of the most dangerous cyber threats, compromising both network and home computers. As you probably know, a botnet is a group of…
Along with the incoming winter holidays a new ‘present’ for cyber-criminals, called Pro PoS Solutions has been uploaded for sale in dark web forums. From its upload point forward PoS users are in for a special Christmas financial data stealing…
The Glasrats Trojan horse also known as Backdoor.Glasrats is reported to open a backdoor on a compromised computer. It is classified as a backdoor type of Trojan horse. Glasrats Trojan may download potentially malicious files, and may upload personal data…
A browser hijacker associated with the website v9.com has been reported to harass users with annoying advertisements in the form of ad-supported search results. v9.com features some shady privacy policy statements regarding collecting personal information as well as using it.…
A new variant of the nefarious TeslaCrypt ransomware is circling the Web. This time, the malicious threat is encrypting files in a .vvv file format. Once it affects your system, it will create thousands of files inside multiple folders, along…
If your offline reality pretty much involves around being onlinе when awake, then you must ask yourself how secure your information is. More precisely, think about your password habits. Are they healthy enough to be bypassed by security breaches, identity…
There is a yet another referral spam redirect spiraling the Internet and messing with various websites and their Google Analytics statistics. Its name is Lsex(.)xyz and it boosts the internet traffic of its affiliate websites by infecting as many targeted…
Referral spam associated with a suspicious domain, called Polarmarathon(.)com has been detected to increase the Google Analytics data on several websites. The suspicious retailer website is most likely a scam, since it has overpiced goods and has been reported as…
Not only regular, tax-paying people impatiently await Christmas – cyber crooks are just as restless. Yes, malicious software doesn’t take vacations and it ‘works’ all year round. However, with Christmas just around the corner, malicious actors are suddenly a tad…
