Month: April 2017

We have had, in the recent months, many reports of malicious email attacks, including those targeting Amazon and Netflix customers. Such malicious email attacks are on the rise; still it seems that even today there are many people, and many businesses as well, that do no realize that it’s a malicious email that has come… Continue reading How to Tackle Phishing Emails and Other Malicious Email Attacks

1st April 2017  By Catalin Cimpanu                                              Yesterday, at the BlackHat Asia 2017 security conference, researchers from cyber-security firm Cylance disclosed two vulnerabilities in the firmware of Gigabyte BRIX small computing devices, which allow an attacker to write malicious content to the UEFI firmware.   During… Continue reading Gigabyte Firmware Flaws Allow the Installation of UEFI Ransomware

March 31, 2017 by Christopher Boyd Users of gaming platform Steam have the ability to upload images from games, post messages, and more besides, into their social network stream. They also have the option to upload game-related artwork. Spammers occasionally make use of this feature to sling some spam at the gaming masses.   We’ve… Continue reading Steam spammers have a night at the movies

By Ionut Arghire on March 31, 2017   A newly discovered piece of malware features a modular design and has been used in highly targeted campaigns, Forcepoint security researchers reveal.   Dubbed Felismus, the malware is a well-written Remote Access Trojan (RAT) believed to have been created by professional cybercriminals. The threat packs numerous anti-analysis capabilities (including… Continue reading Modular Felismus RAT Emerges

31st March 2017   Once you understand how easy and common it is for thieves to attach “skimming” devices to ATMs and other machines that accept debit and credit cards, it’s difficult not to closely inspect and even tug on the machines before using them. Several readers who are in the habit of doing just that… Continue reading Why I Always Tug on the ATM

        When was the last time you backed up your files?   113 phones are stolen every minute in the country. 30% of people don’t backup their files.   Precious family photos, important documents and emails – you name it and you’ve probably got it saved on your various devices.   If… Continue reading World Backup Day 2017

At the time of discovery, no AV could detect this stealthy ransomware which infected a popular application                                         Mar 31, 2017 00:30 GMT  ·  By Gabriela Vatu   A new type of Android ransomware was discovered in the wild. What makes this one particularly scary… Continue reading New Android Ransomware Goes Undetected by All Antivirus Programs