A little more than two weeks before the start of the official holiday shopping season our attention is drawn to the more frequent Point-of-Sale (POS) malware attacks targeted to big merchant chains. What makes an impression is that each following…
Nearly two months after its announcement, the Shellshock flaw in Bash has become immensely popular. Over 630 000 incidents have been detected from more than 15 000 IP addresses worldwide in only a two-week-period. This marks a distinct increase in…
VideoMedia+Player_v2.3 is promoted as a helpful tool, but experts categorize it as a potentially unwanted program because of the large amount of advertisements it displays as the user browses the Web. VideoMedia+Player_v2.3 is compatible with the most used browsers –…
It seems that Browser Stack, a famous cross-border testing tool, who has more than 25,000 customers all over the world, including eBay, Microsoft, Adobe, etc. has been hacked two days ago.They continue offering their services though. One of the signs…
A new mighty hack campaign has been spotted recently in the wild. It’s targeted against Facebook certificates and credential log-ins and consists of crooks sending e-mails to Facebook users stating that there was a fraud attempt for accessing their accounts.…
BrowsersAppProPlus is a browser add-on created by Railroad Party Apps, which purpose is to help users save time and money as they are shopping online. This may sound appealing to many, but users should keep in mind that BrowsersAppProPlus is…
Vulnerability in iPhones and iPads allows hackers to switch legitimate applications with malicious ones that could grant access to personal information. Security experts with FireEye report that the flaw, which they have dubbed Masque Attack, makes large amounts of personal…
Windows AntiVirus Adviser is a rogue antivirus program. Once active on the compromised computer, Windows AntiVirus Adviser displays numerous alerts about non-existing security threats which purpose is only to scare the user and lure him into purchasing the licensed version…
A joint operation by the law enforcement agencies in sixteen European countries and the US took down 410 underground websites. So far, this is one of the biggest attacks against dark market websites on the Tor network. The Tor network…
As we all know and are aware, most phishing hacker attacks are being performed by automated bot machines instead of living humans. A statistics in a recent study on the subject Google released shows that the so-called ‘manual hijacking‘ might…
Customers of amazon.co.uk are being targeted by scam emails with attached malicious Microsoft Word documents. The messages claim to contain details on the transportation of an order, having the package number in the subject field. Over 600 000 Malicious Emails…
MySearchPage.net is a search engine that has been classified as adware and browser hijacker because of its ability to modify the browser settings and set mysearchpage.net as a default search engine and homepage. MySearchPage.net can affect the most used web…
Two days ago, on 5th November this year, Palo Alto Network researchers published an announcement that they have come across a new malware infecting iOS and Mac OS X software applications. The malware seems to be spreading out of a…
As we wrote last month, a recent discovery of the Palo Alto Networks security researchers detected that a malware, aiming to steal bank credentials, information and certificates, used a long time ago, has been activated again. It is a modification…
What Is Rango XP Antivirus 2014? Rango XP Antivirus 2014 is promoted as a legitimate and efficient anti-virus program. Fact is that experts classify it as rogue security software that performs fake systems cans and displays numerous alert messages and…
Researchers with Palo Alto Networks have discovered a new malware family affecting Apple OS X and iOS. Dubbed WireLurker, the malware compromises even non-jailbroken iOS devices. This is the first malware type that infects iOS apps in a manner a…
In a blog post from Monday, 3 November, 2014 researchers in Fortinet announce that they have recently come across a new version of the notorious Backoff PoS malware, called ROM. The new version is a very precise compared to the…
Security researchers warn that an unpatched flaw in some of the earlier versions of OS X and Yosemite lets criminals take over the compromised machine. The escalation vulnerability dubbed Rootpipe allows the hackers to gain root access to the affected…
A malicious email claiming to be from Windows Outlook message informs users about mailbox infection with the C93 virus. The email is supposed to scare the receiver and lure him into following the link that will provide him with the…
Security experts with Bitdefender warn about a new wave of Rovnix Trojan infections targeting confidential information. Over 130 000 computers have been compromised in the UK so far. Analysts label this campaign as one of the most successful ones in…
