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Midlothian Village, Illinois, Police Department became the target of ransomware having file-encryption capabilities and hence, the department had to give in to the demands of the hackers for retrieving sensitive police records. It happened in January when a department member opened a compromised email pointing to the malicious software. However, this is not an entirely […]
Parents nowadays must be receiving an email alert that claims “a child predator has moved to your neighborhood.” As per the content of this email, parents are informed that a child predator has moved into their neighborhood recently. The recipient is asked to click on a link to receive more information about the predator. The […]
Whopping $3 Million Bounty offered by FBI for Evgeniy Bogachev. The FBI and the U.S. State Department announced the highest ever bounty of $3 million on Tuesday for info leading to the capture or conviction of alleged Russian Hacker Evgeniy Bogachev. This amount is the highest offered by U.S authorities in any cyber case. A […]
The official website of world’s largest PC maker was hacked earlier Wednesday allegedly by Lizard Squad. Hackers left a deface page containing slideshow images of a teen along with “Breaking Free” from High School musical as page’s background. This is probably the worst time for Lenovo to have their site hacked amid SuperFish Malware scandal where the company […]
MS Word’s Malicious Macro Facilitates Downloading of Vawtrak Trojan – This time attackers rely upon VBS file containing Execution Policy Bypass Flag. Hackers have managed to implement yet another cybercrime campaign by installing Vawtrak banking Trojan into users’ computers. According to security researchers at Trend Micro, this latest attack relies upon a multi-stage hacking routine […]
Lately, an email from Amazon has been hitting the inbox of unsuspecting users all over the world. This email has been masqueraded as an order notification message from the famed marketplace Amazon.com. In this email, recipients are thanked for placing the order at Amazon and they are informed that their order details can be viewed […]
The world renowned Lenovo Computer manufacturing company has been shipping laptops prepackaged with malware that makes you more vulnerable to hackers — all for the sake of serving you advertisements. To get rid of this malware Microsoft has released a signature update for Windows Defender to detect and remove Superfish malware installed on some Lenovo PCs. […]
New Android malware transforms your Phone into a Spy while it is Off – New Android Malware threat has been discovered by prominent security firm AVG. It is called PowerOffHijack and has a very distinct feature: it compromises the Android device’s shutdown process and spies on you. Your phone will appear switched off to you […]
Over 60% Dating Apps Detected Unsafe by IBM Security – Popular Dating Apps Making Users Vulnerable to a Variety of Cybercrimes. Mobile Dating apps are used by millions on their smartphones because in today’s dating-oriented culture these apps allow singles to find love interests conveniently. Various apps like Tinder, Match and OkCupid have garnered immense fan […]
The US National Security Agency (NSA) hid undetectable spying software within the hard drives of computers, be it of any make, says a Moscow-based cyber security researcher and software maker. Several personal computers (more than tens of thousands) in more than 30 countries were infected with one or more of the spying programs, said Kaspersky […]
Egypt and Gaza-based hackers seem to have united against the Israeli government, military network and research infrastructure since the traces of two ongoing malware attacks lead to Gaza- reveals Trend Micro report. Trend Micro’s report didn’t specifically name the targeted or affected websites and Israel’s National Cyber Authority spokesperson states that the government hasn’t received […]
Email titled “My New Photo ;)” actually Contain Malware – A .Zip file has an attachment Supposedly containing the promised image. Summary: Hackers, in their latest spree, are spreading fake emails with a much alluring subject “My New Photo ;),” which in reality contains a malware. There is a .Zip file harbouring the photo in a […]
Everything formidable is often associated with its negative half and the same can be said of the internet. The origins of functional internet can be traced back to the 1990’s, the exact period of the origins of the early form of malware. Malware was then just a few lines of code in software that would […]
The CEO of WhatsApp, Jan Koum informed on January 21 that the very popular and well-known mobile application has a web client that can be used from Google Chrome which will enable users to retrieve all the conversations and messages from the mobile device. Banking Trojan delivered in Brazil via Fake WhatsApp for web: Attackers […]
A ransomware kind of threat has been on the loose that works by encrypting the data on the infected computer and then displays a message to the victim asking him/her to pay a fee so as to unlock the files. The ransomware is called Critron or can also be referred to as the CTB-Locker. Chrome […]
Image: Phandroid Generally the mischievous applications on the Android store Google Play don’t last long due to Google’s security measures or complaints of users. But, a recent report from the antivirus firm Avast tells about the discovery of a new malware on Google Play store in a recent batch of apps. Avast has caught […]
It has been found by researchers that a hacking operation has been conducted targeting military intelligence so as to collect it for Pro-Assad parties in the Syrian conflict. FireEye, a security firm, released on Monday a report (PDF) telling in detail about the threat group which finally stole a cache of sensitive data which contained […]
Adobe Flash Player has again seen a zero-day exploit that has appeared in the field due to a critical vulnerability that enables drive-by-download attacks. The U.S seems to be teeming with a malvertising-based attack having its foundations on the exploit. It is Adobe Flash Player 16.0.0.296 and earlier versions for the Windows and the Mac […]
Facebook appears to be infected with a porn-based malware that has affected about 110,000 Facebook users in just two days. The malware, disguised as a Flash update, comes as a link to a porn video on one of your friend’s post. Clicking on it takes you to a website that may or may not be […]
This news bit strengthens the presumption that hackers can make use of just about anything to fulfill their malicious motives. After the occurrence of Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris last week, what followed suite was the trending of #JeSuisCharlie. It became more like a display of solidarity. However, along with journalists, malwareorganizations are also following this viral trend […]
A website mimicking the official BBC News site has garnered immense traffic earlier this week through false information about Charley Hebdo massacre and it is likely that the fake website may be a facade for cyber criminal activities, according to a report from a cybersecurity firm. The identical website(bbc-news[.]co[.]uk) carried a fake story claiming the […]