There is a fresh ransomware campaign circulating on the web that is spreading Cerber ransomware. This campaign is quite dangerous because it has the tendency of infecting a large number of systems. Andra Zaharia, a member Heimdal Security research team states that this ransomware campaign affects not just individual internet users but also enterprises. The research […]
Many Spotify users are complaining that its freemium service is infecting their browsers with malware. Last year, the music and video streaming giant Spotify was in the bad news when Russian hackers were suspected to have hacked some of its users’ accounts or when the company’s CEO Daniel Ek apologized for collecting private data of its users. But now, […]
Tech support scams coming as phishing pages that contain fake alerts urging you to call for immediate assistance are common place these days. We collect hundreds of such URLs each day and have observed countless tricks to fool users. In this post we examine a couple of sneaky techniques targeting Google Chrome users. The fake address bar This is an interesting […]
Short Bytes: All Browsers Memory Zip is a free tool for Windows that optimizes your memory usage. It supports almost 40 web browsers and cuts down their RAM usage if it exceeds a threshold. While it might not help you speed up your PC, you can give it a try if you are stuck with […]
A tool that transforms Firefox Browsers into a penetration testing suite How ? It downloads the most important extensions, and install it on your browser. The used extensions has been chosen by a survey among the information security community. Based on it’s results, Firefox Security Toolkit was made. Also, it allows you to download Burp […]
Crooks use brand new potent feature to just show adware. A previously discovered and highly dangerous Android trojan has received an update in the form of a module that allows it to inject the phone’s Web browsers and intercept URLs, redirecting users to any link the crook wishes to. The trojan in question is named Triada […]
Google removes Chrome extension that hijacked Web browsers. Google has intervened and banned the Better History Chrome extension from the Chrome Web Store after users reported that it started taking over their browsing experience and redirecting them to pages showing ads. First signs that something was wrong appeared when users updated from version 3.9.7 to 3.9.8 after […]
Some trolls have been using short URLs to trick users into clicking the link CrashSafari.com that crashes and reboots Android, iOS devices and web browsers — So DON’T FALL FOR IT. Remember last year’s bug that crashed Apple Watch, iPhone and iPads? Well, a similar bug is back but it requires you to click a website link […]
A number of weeks back, security researcher Parvez Anwar posted a number of DLL hijacking vulnerabilities within Microsoft Office on Twitter [1]. The following week, Microsoft released MS15-132, which addressed some of these vulnerabilities, along with a large number of very similar bugs reported by others in various guises. [2] [3]. The vulnerabilities that were […]
Researchers have found that smartphone browsers can deliver a powerful flooding attack. Researchers suspect a mobile advertising network has been used to point hundreds of thousands of smartphone browsers at a website with the aim of knocking it offline. According to distributed denial-of-service protection service CloudFlare, one customer’s site recently came under fire from 4.5 […]
Major vulnerabilities have been detected in Dolphin and Mercury Android browsers that could have provided cybercriminals with the opportunity to launch zero-day attacks. This is considered to be a notable discovery. With both browsers growing in popularity – it is estimated that over 100 million downloads have been made between the two browsers – the […]
A host of UK broadband providers are hijacking people’s browsers mid-session to force them into making decisions on adult content filters.
Facebook has opened its doors to privacy concerned users, but opening up a dedicated Tor link, guaranteeing that people who visit the social networking site through anonymous browsers aren’t mistaken for botnets, Gizmodo reports.
Blackphone, billed as a privacy tool to keep the puplic safe ruled the headlines when it was is hacked in five minutes, Meanwhile, Wi-Fi routers were also shown up – and Android users face a toothy new threat,
Two researchers have launched a petition to change how car companies and technology cmpanies work together – with a new villain: in-car web browsers.
Two video plug-ins for YouTube hijack users visits to the site and insert extra adverts – some of which are being hijacked by “malvertisers”, sending users to fake adverts which attempt to infect their PCs.
MAJORITY OF THE JAVA ENABLED BROWSERS ARE ASSAILABLE TO JAVA EXPLOITS WHICH HAVE BEEN SPREAD ON A VAST SCALE: SAYS WEBSENSE Majority of the browser installations that are being used have out-of-date versions of java plug in and are very much vulnerable to the exploits’ tools that have been spread on a large scale. This […]