Tag: security

A series of web sites are pushing a scam promising $5-30 worth of free bitcoins a day simply by running their Bitcoin Collector program. In reality, this program does nothing but install ransomware or password-stealing Trojans onto a victim’s computer. […]

Following Chronicle’s study on signed malware registered on VirusTotal scanning service over a one-year period, Sectigo carried their own investigation to identify abused certificates and revoke them. […]

We had lots of new variants of existing ransomware and new ransomware found being distributed via malvertising campaigns and RIG exploit kit. The good news is that some of them were smacked down with decryptors! […]

Details have been released for an unpatched vulnerability in macOS 10.14.5 (Mojave) and below that allows a hacker to execute arbitrary code without user interaction. […]

Germany’s Interior Minister Horst Seehofer purportedly wants to force messaging providers such as WhatsApp, Telegram, and Threema to provide plain text chats to law enforcement agencies on a court order as reported by Der Spiegel and from a number of other German news outlets. […]

Scammers are abusing the Notifications and Push APIs and Google Chrome on Android devices to push spam alerts customized to look like a missed phone call. […]

A new and upgraded variant of the JasperLoader malware downloader has been observed in the wild actively targeting Italian victims and featuring new capabilities such as extra layers of obfuscation, anti-analysis mechanisms, and geofencing abilities. […]