Security and spyware news
Stay safe online - 2019-03-25
Facebook users' passwords stored in plaintext by accident since 2012
Hundreds of millions of Facebook users' passwords stored in plaintext since 2012 by accident.
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Police Federation hit by ransomware that locked files and deleted backups
UK's Police Federation announced a malware attack that not only encrypted files on networks but also erased some of the backups.
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News Viruses and parasites
2019-03-22
After defrauding Google and Facebook, Lithuanian faces up to 30 year sentence
Lithuanian sentenced for 30 years of prison for scamming Google and Facebook.
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2019-03-21
Aluminum producer Norsk Hydro hit by LockerGoga ransomware
A high-profile organization Norsk Hydro had to switch to manual operations after LockerGoga ransomware infected its IT infrastructure.
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News Viruses and parasites
2019-03-20
Latest Boeing 737 accidents used to spread malware via email spam
Hackers are persuading users to open a malicious file that allegedly contains information about the two recent Boeing 737 MAX 8 crashes.
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News Spam and phishing
2019-03-19
STOP ransomware variant now incorporates password stealer Azorult
The new strain of STOP ransomware also downloads and installs Azorult, an info-stealing trojan that is capable of harvesting the most sensitive data.
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News Viruses and parasites
2019-03-18
Two-thirds of Android anti-malware tools on Google Play are useless
The 2019 Android Test results published by AV-Comparatives showed that most apps provide inadequate protection from malware.
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Zero-day exploits used in 1.6 Counter-Strike servers to spread malware
39% of Counter-Strike 1.6 active servers are exploited via the remote code execution vulnerabilities.
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Patch Tuesday ensured automatic buggy update removal on Windows 10
Windows 10 will now uninstall faulty updates automatically, without user intervention.
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2019-03-13
Two Ukranian men sued for scraping data on Facebook from 63k users
Facebook is suing two Ukrainians who used quick apps to illegally harvest private data of 63k users for advertisement purposes.
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Ransomware attack at a medical billing company: 15K patients affected
Ransomware attack at Wolverine Solutions Group leads to thousands of NOCHS patients affected.
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News Viruses and parasites
2019-03-11
Banking Trojan horse distributed by using false Google reCAPTCHA
Crooks pretend to be from Google and try to steal users credential data.
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News Viruses and parasites
2019-03-09
Pinchy Spider group takes up Big game hunting with GandCrab
The notorious Gandcrab ransomware is going big game hunting: developers and the affiliates now targeting enterprise organizations to increase profits.
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News Viruses and parasites
2019-03-08
What you need to know about Ethical Hacking
Hacking skills can be put to good use as well.
Over the years, the term “hacking” has gained a negative connotation, not surprisingly. More
Update Google Chrome to avoid this zero-day security vulnerability
Patch Google Chrome immediately: zero-day CVE-2019-5786 vulnerability in the wild.
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News Web browsers and vulnerabilities
2019-03-06
