A cybercrime article from 2011 named as “Cybercrime: is it out of control?” on the website of Guardian has been found to be serving up the Angler Exploit Kit. The Angler Exploit Kit is a Web-based utility toolbelt that hackers use to test the defenses of a user’s computer. The problem was disc…
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iPower Technologies, a U.S security company and network integrator, has discovered a copies of Conficker malware in the Martel Frontline Camera with GPS, one of the largest manufacturers of police in-car video systems in America, whose product is being sold and marketed as a body camera for official…
Researchers have now discovered two new and different strains of point of sale (POS) malware including one that has gone largely undetected for the past five years. Researchers have described Cherry Picker, a set of PoS malware which in one form or another has been targeting businesses that sell foo…
Researchers from Palo Alto Networks, has confirmed that Taomike, a Chinese mobile advertising company, has been distributing a malicious Software Development Kit (SDK) that allows Android developers for implementing in-app purchases (IAPs) for Android apps. The SDK, which can be downloaded for free…
If you are Android user and you have an app Talking Tom 3, Smart Touch, Privacy Lock then you should be vary.FirmEye, a Security and cyber-attack firm tracked down a new mobile malware that is threat in more than 20 countries worldwide.Kemoge, an Android-affecting malware which you can i…
(pc- google images) ATM malwares are no myth to the cyber world and this time is no different than the earlier. a team of security researchers from PointProof have unraveled the veil off a new malware, named GreenDispenser, that gives the capability to hackers to attack compromised ATMs and drain al…
Researchers at Check Point Threat Prevention have detected a malicious application and said to have affected some one million people, which was published twice in the Google Play Store. The malware was packaged within an Android game called “Brain Test”. According to the researchers, the malware was…
Security experts from at ESET have discovered a malware that targets Pokerstars’ users and Full Tilt Poker and that lets competitors (crooks) cheat their way to winning games by leaking their information about their cards to their competitors. It affects people who have accounts on PokerStars and Fu…
Security researchers at ESET have discovered the first malware that could allow an attacker to reset the PIN of anyone’s phone to permanently lock them out of their own device. “This ransomware also uses a nasty trick to obtain and preserve Device Administrator privileges so as to prevent uninstalla…
(PC-google images) Bitdefender Security Researcher, Liviu Arsene has recently revealed that a malware, identified as Android.Trojan.MKero.A has found its way into the highly legitimate apps in Android powered Google Play Store by successfully evading the Google Bouncer’s vetting algorithms. This can…
Researcher from Palo Alto Networks, a computer security firm, have found out that hackers, who have targeting jail-broken iPhones, have raided more than 225,000 Apple accounts, using them for app buying sprees or to hold phones for ransom. The jailbreak is a tool in iPhones to use additional iThing…
Photo Courtesy: Dr. Web Security researchers from Doctor Web, Russian anti-virus software developer, have detected another new Android Trojan, which is said to be distributed among users from china to spy on their victims. Previously, the researchers had found an Android Trojan, which spreads as a s…
Photo Courtesy: Malwarebytes Researchers from Malwarebytes Unpacked, a security firm, have detected a malvertising, which derived from “malicious advertising” uses online advertising to spread malware and it involves malware-laden advertisements into legitimate online advertising websites, in the Pl…
Photo Courtesy: ABC Many people are becoming victims of an encryption virus dubbed Cryptolocker which hijacks computer files and demands a ransom, if anyone wants to restore them. A report in ABC confirms that now, Australians are paying thousands of dollars to overseas hackers to rid their computer…
Fake virus alert is the technique used by the Cyber criminals to trick users into thinking their system have a virus then tell them to install or buy fake applications, sometimes redirect them to spam websites. A New fake virus alert spotted by Malware Bytes team says users that their device infecte…