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Hackers Use WAV Audio Files To Inject Malware And Crypto miners

Hackers are growing, not only in numbers but also in the sophistication of their methods. A malware campaign spotted by BlackBerry Cylance this month suggests the use of WAV audio files being used to hide malicious code, a typical example of steganography. Steganography at work Steganography is a popular technique among hackers to hide malware […]

Hackers Earned $32,000 in 7 Days By Fixing Cryptocurrency Bugs

A group of white hat hackers are busy fixing cryptocurrency bugs and for good reasons. According to a recent report from Hardfork, hackers have earned around $32,150 in 7 days by providing their services to blockchain companies. The most famous clients of these hackers include EOS, TRON, Coinbase, and Brave. There are a total of […]

Internet users hit with Breaking Bad Theme Crypto-Malware

To demonstrate their creativity cybercriminals have released a new ransomware equipped with file encryption abilities and this time they have chosen logo of “Los Pollos Hermanos” fast food chain featured in famous TV show “Breaking Bad.”  No matter how much we condemn cybercriminals for their deeds we cannot deny that they have been demonstrating their […]

TeslaCrypt looks like AlphaCrypt Malware uses TOR to transfer ransomware

AlphaCrypt Crypto-Malware the actual mind blower is that it Looks like TeslaCrypt and acts like CryptoWall. the latest piece of ransomware with new and improved file encryption capabilities has been discovered by security researchers, it was also known that it is somewhat similar in some measures from the rest of the two crypto-malware, TeslaCrypt and the […]

Police Dept. in Massachusetts Paid Crypto-Malware Ransom to Retrieve Files

Ransomware equipped with encryption capabilities has been victimizing police departments rather indiscriminately nowadays. Although paying ransom to hackers is not recommended because it encourages cybercriminals to continue adopting these measures to obtain money via blackmailing but in order to avoid losing data that has been encrypted through malware activity is next to impossible. The only remedy […]