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The authors of SafeBrowse, a Chrome extension with more than 140,000 users, have embedded a JavaScript library in the extension’s code that mines for the Monero cryptocurrency using users’ computers and without getting their consent. The additional code drives CPU usage through the roof, making users computers sluggish and hard to use. SafeBrowse uses same […]
Russian police acknowledged today that they were responsible for taking down RAMP [Russian Anonymous Marketplace] — a Tor-based market that primarily sold drugs — a Russian Interior Ministry official told Russian news agency TASS today. The takedown took place in July, but Russian authorities never made their action public, continuing to investigate suspected criminals. The […]
Google removed — and then reinstated — one of the most popular mobile antivirus apps on the Play Store after security firm Check Point discovered that the app was secretly collecting device data from users’ smartphones. The app in question is named DU Antivirus Security and was created by the DU Group, a company part […]
Avast published earlier today a post-mortem of the CCleaner malware incident, in the hopes to clarify some of the details surrounding the event that many of its users found troubling. Below is a simplified timeline of events, based on Avast’s recent statement. July 3 – Evidence suggests hackers breached Piriform’s IT systems.July 18 – Avast […]
Today a new Locky Ransomware variant was discovered by security researcher Derek Knight and then quickly followed by Stormshield malware analyst coldshell that switches to the .ykcol extension for encrypted files. For those who may not have noticed it the first time, like myself, ykcol is locky spelled backwards. It is important to note that if you are infected […]
Security researchers have detected a new Android banking trojan by the name of Red Alert 2.0 that was developed during the past few months and has been recently rolled out into distribution. According to a report shared with Bleeping Computer before publication, security researchers from SfyLabs first saw ads for this trojan on a hacking […]
What happened? An unknown threat group compromised the CCleaner infrastructure. The attacker added malware to the 32-bit versions of CCleaner 5.33.6162 and CCleaner Cloud 1.07.3191. The files were available for download between August 15 and September 12. Who is affected? Everybody who downloaded and installed the affected versions in that timespan. Avast estimates the number […]
Version 5.33 of the CCleaner app offered for download between August 15 and September 12 was modified to include the Floxif malware, according to a report published by Cisco Talos a few minutes ago. Floxif is a malware downloader that gathers information about infected systems and sends it back to its C&C server. The malware […]
LiteBit.eu — a multi-currency exchange based in the Netherlands — has suffered data breaches two months in a row. According to emails sent to affected customers after each event, no Bitcoin or altcoin funds were stolen in any of these two incidents. The company says the attacker only pilfered user personal information, such as emails, […]
Loopix is a new anonymity network developed by a group of researchers from University College London (UCL) that comes with all the good parts of previous systems and new additions to improve security. Both Loopix and Tor are based on the concept of mix networks and are meant to provide a way to send anonymous […]