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Cybercriminals are now using new techniques to infect users with ransomware in order to make easy money. That is exactly what happened with Los Angeles Valley College (LAVC) who recently had their computer systems infected. In return, the college was forced to pay the whopping sum of $28,000 (£22,500, €25,936) in Bitcoin. It all started on 30th December 2016 when the […]
Mystery malware begins targeting a key disk-wiping defense. There’s a new variant of the Shamoon disk-wiping malware that was originally unleashed on Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company in 2012, and it has a newly added ability to destroy virtual desktops, researchers said. The new strain is at least the second Shamoon variant to be discovered […]
Short Bytes: The security researchers at Palo Alto Networks have detected two versions of a malware similar to Shamoon which attacked 35,000 Saudi Aramco machines in 2011. The latest version, known as Second Shamoon 2, was spotted in November 2016. It is known to cause cyber espionage and damage virtual machines working on the target […]
ClearSky Security discovered a new campaign conducted by the Iranian OilRig APT leveraging digitally signed malware and fake University of Oxford domains. The OilRig hacker group is an Iran-linked APT that has been around since at least 2015. Researchers at Palo Alto Networks have been monitoring the group for some time and have reported attacks launched against government agencies, financial institutions and technology companies in Saudi Arabia, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Kuwait and Qatar, the United States, […]
Super Mario Run is anticipated to dispatch in the Google Play Store in the coming weeks, after beforehand going live on iOS on December 15, and cybercriminals are attempting to profit by the energy produced by Nintendo’s new title utilizing another influx of malware. introducing a honest to goodness amusement, the supposed Super Mario Run […]
UK’s largest domain registrar provider 123-reg has become a victim of a DDoS attack after which its users couldn’t access their email accounts as well as websites. This is only the beginning of 2017 and the hosting platform has suffered another big blow. The news about these attack was announced formally by the company via […]
The China-linked DragonOK continues updating tools and tactics and targeted entities in various countries, including Russia and Tibet. It was September 2014, when security researchers at FireEye spotted for the first time the cyber espionage activities of a Chinese state-sponsored group dubbed DragonOK. At the time, FireEye discovered two hacking campaigns conducted by distinct groups operating in separate regions […]
My friends at CyberBlog decided to analyze the GM Bot Android Malware as exercise aiming to receive feedback sand suggestions from the security community. The sample explored is confirmed as a variant of the GM Bot Android malware – who’s source was released publicly in early 2016. The code appears to have been forked by a second […]
The famous Antivirus software developer company Symantec is now attempting to shift gear and make a mark in the hardware industry. Norton Core is its first product, which is a mobile-enabled WiFi router. It has been priced at $280 but for pre-orders, it comes at an exclusive rate of $200. You will be able to […]
A new form of malware is targeting Macs and launching denial-of-service attacks on users by creating multiple email drafts that crash the computer. The method is simple but devious. According to security company Malwarebytes, which analyzed the malware with the help of researcher @TheWack0lian, it exploits vulnerabilities in the Safari browser and Mail app. Once […]
The IT security firm has revealed that scammers are targeting Apple‘s Mac users with a new kind of malware that hijacks its Mail App and Safari browser to conduct denial of service (DOS) attacks. The attackers direct these apps to continually draft emails till the machine runs out of RAM and crashes eventually. The report also […]
Bug bounty programs are the deal of the season. Almost every organization is offering exclusive programs to white hat hackers and security researchers in order to identify potential security flaws in their networks, operating systems and other devices. Many websites and software developers are now coming up with attractive bug bounty programs through which upcoming hackers can […]
One of the essential vectors for the delivery of technical support scams is malvertising. You’ll basically be browsing the web page then unexpectedly your program demonstrates a terrifying page guaranteeing your PC is infected. Recently, there has been a pattern for scammers to cause denial-of-service attacks against user’s computers. A lot of fake PC technical […]
Ransomware Ransomware is a kind of malware that keeps or cutoff user’s from getting their System, either by locking the system’s screen or by locking the user’s files unless ransom is paid. To read more about Ransomware. FireCrypt’s manufacturer named BleedGreen (seen underneath) and permits the FireCrypt creator to produce an exceptional ransomware executable, […]
Kaspersky’s RannohDecryptor adds more power – Ransomware battle: Since April 2016, Kaspersky Lab has recorded attacks by CryptXXX against at least 80,000 users around the world. More than half of them located in only six countries: the US, Russia, Germany, Japan, India, and Canada. As indicated by Kaspersky Lab, CryptXXX is a standout among the […]
Hackers have started a new campaign in which they have chosen WhatsApp as the primary malware-distributing platform. In this campaign, hackers are distributing the malware through 2 files namely “NDA-ranked-8th-toughest-College-in-the-world-to-get-into.xls” and “NIA-selection-order-.xls” respectively. These files are being circulated via WhatsApp in the form of authentic word files obtaining sensitive information from users which include online […]
Whatsapp malware targets Indian Android Users, a warning issued by Central security services. This malware spreads through true looking word records sent by means of WhatsApp, which could then take delicate data from clients, including internet banking credentials and other Sensitive data. Identified malicious WhatsApp messages Hackers are taking advantage of two major associations in the district […]
Any other day, some other creepy malware for Android users! Security Researchers have uncovered a brand new Android malware concentrated on your devices, however this time in place of attacking the device at once. The malware takes manage over the WiFi router to which your tool is hooked up to after which hijacks the net […]
Android users are always at the target of malicious threat actors. Now, there is a new Android-based Trojan discovered by Kaspersky Lab researchers known as Switcher Trojan because of its ability to firstly infect the device’s Wi-Fi routers and then switch users of that infected network to various infected sites. This means, the Trojan doesn’t directly […]
Each new release of Apple’s desktop operating system seems to place more restrictions on users than the last. System Integration Protection (or SIP for short) might be the biggest change yet. Introduced with OS X 10.11 El Capitan, SIP places restrictions on a user’s ability to modify certain folders altogether. While some condemned Apple’s latest security technology as a means of […]
A hacking group from Russia used a malware implant on Android devices to track and target Ukrainian artillery units from late 2014 through 2016, according to a new report released Thursday. The malware was able to retrieve communications and some locational data from infected devices, intelligence that would have likely been used to strike against […]