Security and spyware news

The ransomware crippled some of the city's services, although the officials worked on swift recovery. More

More than 3.1 million customer information exposed after the second Toyota security breach in less than five weeks. More

Android banking trojan targets 130 cryptocurrency and banking applications and steals funds. More

Google security expert Matthew Garrett discloses Zero-day arbitrary code execution vulnerability after 90-day silence from TP-Link. More

Office Depot companies and Support.com provided users with "PC Health Check" app that convinced them to buy diagnostic and repair services. More

UC Browser is found to contain malicious ability to expose its users to remote attackers. More

Hackers hijacked updates propagated via ASUS Live Update Utility to install backdoors on thousands of users' PCs. More

Crooks spread Gancrab 5.2 ransomware via suspicious email messages that pretend to be from the Centers for Disease and Control Prevention. More

Hundreds of millions of Facebook users' passwords stored in plaintext since 2012 by accident. More

UK's Police Federation announced a malware attack that not only encrypted files on networks but also erased some of the backups. More

Lithuanian sentenced for 30 years of prison for scamming Google and Facebook. More

A high-profile organization Norsk Hydro had to switch to manual operations after LockerGoga ransomware infected its IT infrastructure. More

Hackers are persuading users to open a malicious file that allegedly contains information about the two recent Boeing 737 MAX 8 crashes. More

The new strain of STOP ransomware also downloads and installs Azorult, an info-stealing trojan that is capable of harvesting the most sensitive data. More

The 2019 Android Test results published by AV-Comparatives showed that most apps provide inadequate protection from malware. More