Blackmoon Banking Trojan Uses Three-tiered Malware Delivery Technique
Banking Trojans have often been a favorite tool among criminals looking for financial gain. Blackmoon is one of the most recent banking Trojans making the rounds, yet it caused …
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18,000 Accounts Compromised as Media Giant Gannett Hit by Email Phishing Attack
Recently, we’ve covered a study conducted by the Pew Research Center that concluded only 54% of Americans were able to identify a phishing attack, one of the most popular …
Hundreds of Android Apps Track Users Through Ultrasound Beacons
It is never good to learn Android applications pose a security and privacy risk to users right now. A total of 234 apps have been discovered, all of which …
Survey Shows Americans Have a Poor Understanding of Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity awareness is crucial, as one wrong click can lead to a whole network being compromised. A lot of people seem to not have a great understanding of cybersecurity, …
Average DDoS Attack Causes Over a Million Dollars in Damages
Even though distributed denial-of-service attacks are nothing new under the sun, the repercussions are often underestimated. Such an attack will cause a major outage for the service in question, …
Malware Hunter Search Engine Sniffs out Malware Command-and-control Servers
It looks like security researchers have reached an important milestone in the ongoing war against malware. A new search engine has been revealed which can be used to sniff …
CryptFile2 Ransomware Obfuscates Infected Files’ Extension to Avoid Decryption
It appears a lot of existing ransomware strains are undergoing some much-needed upgrades as of late. The developers of CryptoMix variant CryptFile2 have introduced some noteworthy changes. All encrypted …
New Macintosh Malware Hijacks All Internet Traffic
Macintosh users are quickly becoming a new target for cyber criminals these days. A new type of Mac malware has been discovered, which is capable of intercepting encrypted web …
Is Mobile Payment Tech Still Insecure?
It began in the ‘80s, when an American cryptographer began toying around with the idea of cryptocurrency. In 1994, the first-ever online purchase was made: a pepperoni pizza. Later …