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Gustuff banking trojan targets Android cryptocurrency and banking apps
Android banking trojan targets 130 cryptocurrency and banking applications and steals funds.
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News Viruses and parasites 2019-03-30
Google Dev uncovers TP-Link SR20 router Zero-day vulnerability
Google security expert Matthew Garrett discloses Zero-day arbitrary code execution vulnerability after 90-day silence from TP-Link.
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News Web browsers and vulnerabilities 2019-03-29
Tech support scam scheme cost Office Depot and Support.com $35 Million
Office Depot companies and Support.com provided users with "PC Health Check" app that convinced them to buy diagnostic and repair services.
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UC Browser apps have been exposing users to MiTM attacks
UC Browser is found to contain malicious ability to expose its users to remote attackers.
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News Web browsers and vulnerabilities 2019-03-27
Operation ShadowHammer: ASUS Live Update software pushed malware
Hackers hijacked updates propagated via ASUS Live Update Utility to install backdoors on thousands of users' PCs.
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News Viruses and parasites 2019-03-26
Gandcrab 5.2 spread via false CDC emails that warn about a Flu pandemic
Crooks spread Gancrab 5.2 ransomware via suspicious email messages that pretend to be from the Centers for Disease and Control Prevention.
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News Viruses and parasites 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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News 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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News 2019-03-13