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…
Throughout the years, the Pirate Bay has been on and off multiple times. The torrent tracking website and its founders have been prosecuted and charged. There’s even a specific term coined for the matter – the Pirate Bay trial –…
A toolbar known as Ultimate Gamer has been recently identified as a PUP(Potentially Unwanted Program) by virus researchers. The toolbar is advertised as a helpful software to assist gamers in their online experience, however it is advisable not to trust…
Do you know what day is today? It’s November 30th and it’s the Day of Computer Security! This annual celebration is dedicated not only to computer geeks and professionals but to all PC users around the Web. The initiative was…
Referral spam has been causing quite the headaches lately as researchers manage to detect more and more websites providing referrer-spam services.. One of those websites is cyber-monday(.)ga which is frequently being spotted in comment spam messages with a subject similar…
Potentially unwanted applications, also known as potentially unwanted programs (PUPs and PUAs) are a major pain for both home and enterprise users. Considering how vulnerable an enterprise environment can be and how sneaky a suspicious browser extension is, Microsoft has…
There is a copycat of the CryptoWall 3.0 Ransomware that is infecting computers. It is also known as PhonyWall. It searches for files with many different extensions, overwrites them with its own files and then displays the decryption note of…
A new Facebook spam of a malicious link connected with request.blob.core.windows.net has been spreading vigorously via users. Security researchers believe that the scam itself is redistributed by malicious software affecting primarily android devices, because after clicking on the questionable spam…
Have you heard of Mr. Grey? Well, not that one. The Mr. Grey we are talking about is a Russian hacker that is discovered to have participated in the theft of 1.2 billion passwords from 420.000 websites. According to both…
A new vulnerability has been discovered. It affects some VPN services and can be leveraged to disclose real IP addresses. Among the users who are endangered by this flaw are the active users of BitTorrent. The vulnerability, dubbed ‘Port Fail’,…
Vonteera Adware which has been reported to be a PUP by ESG security engineers. The PUPs associated with Win32/Vonteera are usually browser toolbars and extensions that may be heavily ad-supported. This particular software is a low level type of threat…
A new research on 4000 devices from 70 different vendors reveals the alarming reuse of private keys. The research has been led by Stefan Viehböck from SEC Consult. The senior security consultant has investigated the HTTPS certificates and SSH keys…
