Love letters from Necurs botnet and other Valentine’s Day scams
Scammers are not looking for love; they are looking for your personal information and money We all know that there’s nothin saint for cybercriminals.
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U.K and U.S websites hit by Monero-mining malware
Government sites were hijacked by a hidden script of Monero miner Almost 5 thousand websites were hit by a stealth crypto-mining malware, including government
Apple releases the battery health tool to disable intentional iPhone slowdowns
After a year of silence, Apple admits an intentional slow down of iPhones lithium-ion batteries Tough time for Apple. For the last year, the
Details of 12k social media influencers are leaked due to Octoly breach
Using an unsecured Amazon server resulted in the data breach at Octoly marketing firm According to the breach analysis blog, UpGuard, more than 12
Kitboga helps you not to fall for Zeus virus scam and other hoaxes
Thousands of people are fascinated how Kitboga wastes scammer’s time Technical support scams are on the rise. One day you might receive a pop-up
Google and Microsoft failed to detect zero-day ShurL0ckr ransomware
New zero-day ransomware detected on both Google and Microsoft cloud servers The new file-encrypting virus was detected on Google and Microsoft cloud services. Researchers
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Tech support scammers use new tricks to scare Google Chrome users
New tech support scam can freeze your Google Chrome Technical support scam is a tricky type of cyber crimes. Scammers use numerous methods to
GandCrab RaaS is being sold on the Russian black market
Ads promoting GandCrab Ransomware-as-a-Service found on the Russian underground forums In the 2nd of February, 2018 Australian cyber-security researchers from LMNTRIX revealed GandCrab license
New cryptominer spreads via MacUpdate hack
MacUpdate trojan downloads a crypto miner from Adobe Creative Cloud servers Security researcher Arnaud Abbati has reported about a new Monero miner which enters
Tax season 2018. Be careful with scams
The tax season 2018 has begun. IRS warns about high risk of scams On January 29, 2018, The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officially announced
Smominru cryptocurrency botnet affected half a million machines
Smominru botnet affected over 500.000 devices using EternalBlue exploit More than half a million computers were turned into Monero mining machines since May 2017
Scammers steal payments from ransomware developers
A new reason not to pay the ransom for ransomware developers The growth of ransomware business is related to great profits. However, this illegal
Jackpotting attacks make U.S ATMs spit out cash in seconds
Police has reported about the first jackpotting attacks in the U.S Security researcher, Brian Krebs, from The Secret Service warns about the first jackpotting
Abuse of Google DoubleClick leads to crypto-miners on YouTube ads
Hackers managed to compromise Google's DoubleClick platform to serve ads with crypto-mining malware on YouTube On January 26, experts have reported that anonymous hackers
Maersk needed 10 days to recover from NotPetya attack fully
Maersk was forced to fully reinstall its IT systems after infamous NotPetya attack The chairman of the logistics giant Maersk, Jim Hagemann Snabe, announced