Despite being used by millions of users worldwide, Android continues to be prone to various exploits. Unfortunately, the operating system is often targeted by suspicious apps that smartly trick the user into installing them. This happens mainly because malicious apps…
More Malware Memes Free software is often bundled with suspicious applications such as adware and PUPs. However, if you are ‘lucky’ enough, you may not just get an innocent PUP but a real piece of malware installed alongside that free…
Have you encountered ‘Ads by Not set’ in your browser while surfing? If so, be careful, since you may have an adware application running in the background and generating intrusive ads. Users have reported the ads being quite persistent, showing…
Malware evolves quickly, and so do the goals of cyber criminals. Thus, one most crucial duty that security researchers have is closely observing malware pieces. Kaspersky Lab’s research team has been carefully studying one particular malware piece dubbed Asacub. Asacub…
It is a common belief that Linux and OS X are safer against malicious attacks than Windows. However, this belief is far from the truth – Mac’s Gatekeeper is also prone to exploits, as well as Linux. Just a few…
A new spyware type of Trojan has been reported by Microsoft to infect user systems. The trojan is reported to create multiple files in an infected computer that have different functions. The threat is primarily reported to steal sensitive user…
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…
If you’re in the IT security world, you most definitely have heard enough about the Italian company Hacking Team. Not only you could have heard about Hacking Team’s recent hack-and-leak, but you may have been their victim as well. Hacking…
Trojan.Plugfakeav is a Trojan horse that presents itself as “Security Shield KIS 2.5”. It can affect browsing history, data on websites you visit, manage your downloads, applications, themes and extensions and modify other settings. It may inject malicious scripts into…
Every single day, millions of users around the globe are ‘infected’ with adware and PUPs. Potentially unwanted software is not a virus infection, even though it can be quite annoying and intrusive. ConsumerInput is an application of that type. It…
Adwares-support(dot)net is a suspicious domain that is associated with the display of fake alerts. The scam ‘works’ on iOS machines, but it may be compatible with Windows OS as well. If your browser has enhanced protection settings, you may witness…
Danish citizen Hammad Akbar has faced a $500 000 fee for selling StealthGenie spyware online. Akbar has also been ordered to deliver the source code of the software to the US government. Akbar has been caught by the US agency…
Detect has been built to assist activists, journalists and defenders of the human rights worldwide, by detecting spyware installed by governmental organizations in order to monitor certain subjects and their activities. Researcher Claudio Guarneri is the mind behind the open…
