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Spammers are taking advantage of the various online petitions against the recent news about the alleged arming of the Syrian rebels by the US to trick Internet users to disclose their personal information, according to media reports. In response to the US involvement in the Syrian civil war, wherein the US intervention and its support […]
A security firm has revealed that hackers are targeting companies utilizing services of Monster Jobs, a well-known job portal, through a new variant of the Gameover computer Malware. Gameover, the malware infecting the employment portal, is similar to the infamous Zeus banking malware whose source code was leaked in 2011. The Trojan steals log-in credentials […]
Nathan Collier of Webroot ThreatVlog, talks about an old, but still active, SMS Fake Installer, a Russian based program used to trick phone users to send premium text messages, costing money to the user. Nathan talks about how these threats work, how this threat is different, and the easiest way to stay protected on your […]
During recent times, social media has by some distance defeated ordinary ways of trading. This has indeed directed many people towards social media to get their business moving. This up thrust has increased competition at the rate of knots and many people are now looking for shortcuts to get their products or services marketed on […]
The “sophisticated” malware for Android has been “unleashed”. Identified by the company specializes in cyber security Kaspersky, the Trojan “Backdoor.AndroidOS.Obad.a” is a threat virtually impossible to be eliminated. The virus is very dangerous both for those who are infected and for the contacts of that affected person. The malware installs itself not only on the device itself but can send malicious files to […]
Mobile phones are now also being utilized for the purpose of managing some important personal assets such as money. According to a recent report that has been published by the Federal Reserve of US, around 48 percent of the smartphone users in the last 12 months have used the mobile banking platform for carrying out […]
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 […]
Wall Street Journal has announced that just like New York Times, their computers were also hacked by hackers from China making it a second major cyber attack on major US news outlet. The WSJ reported that the like NYT, hackers spied on their coverage specifically related to China for last four months. The Chinese response over hacking allegation remains the same, […]
NQ Mobile,a mobile security company that provides solution for protecting mobile device from malware, spyware, theft, and loss has found a new malware the “Bill Shocker” that has already infected over 620,000 users in only China and now posing a serious threat to all unprotected Android devices globally. Net-Security reports that the Bill Shocker is a (SDK) developed by […]
A coal firm in Indonesia named as Bumi has faced heavy crisis in the recent past, but, firm’s physical performance wasn’t the reason behind the crisis. It was through hacking, it all happened, the crisis that the firm is facing now is of such intensity that firm is now beginning to get offers to sell its current […]
Google has blocked around million of Twitter accounts today when the search engine found malicious malware on Twitter’s picture sharing service. The Twitpic, was mentioned as a ”malicious threat” to computers. The search engine giant blocked the visitors from accessing the Twitpic and any image hosted by the picture sharing service from its search results […]
In America, transit authorities have installed microphone-enabled surveillance systems on public buses in various cities including San Francisco, Eugene, Traverse City, Columbus, Hartford, and Athens. That means, now they can listen to every word you say! To add a little more shock, some of these systems have a technology for distinguishing conversations from the background […]
When cyber criminals started to attack probably one of the most largest community or business running online i.e. Facebook. A cat mouse game began which meant some defensive measures taken by the online giant. The measures included providing awareness to the members regarding installing updated anti-virus programs to their PC This anti-virus was, however, developed to […]
As we previously pointed out on HackRead that smartphones are probably the biggest form of hacking for the cyber hackers this year, another news from Malaysia have arose regarding the hacking scenarios through smartphone. The Malaysian cyber crime has reported that people nationwide has faced huge losses of money this year from the hands of cyber hackers. […]
Some unknown hackers have installed a malicious Java applet on an international Forex Trading website, the program is designed to install malware on the visitor’s systems. The program was detected by an internet security company WebSence, which claims that the website [tradingforex.com] contained malware till Friday morning and now has been removed. An applet is a small Internet-based program written in Java, a programming […]
A Malware has been detected on Geo Television’s official website which is Pakistan’s one of the famous private News Channel. founded by Mr. Mir Shakil ur Rehman in May 2002 and owned by Independent Media Corporation. A warning can be seen while opening the main page of Geo Tv’s website. www.geo.tv contains malware. Your computer might catch a virus if you visit […]