Category: Anti-malware

8th April 2017 By Jonathan Vanian   If you’re a Mac user, you might want to look out for an increase of unwanted advertisements popping out from your web browsers.   Security firm McAfee released a report this week that showed a big jump in 2016 regarding malware hitting the Mac operating system. The McAfee report… Continue reading Apple Malware Appears to Be Skyrocketing

April 8, 2017 by William Tsing   The common conception of cyber attacks is kind of like bad weather: ranging from irritating to catastrophic, but always unpredictable. Hackers are simply too sophisticated to draw any reliable judgments on and we shouldn’t try. As it turns out, some hackers are fairly predictable in their successful use… Continue reading The top 5 dumbest cyber threats that work anyway

The newer Linux 4.9.18 LTS kernel is available in the repos                                     Apr 7, 2017 20:40 GMT  ·  By Marius Nestor   The developers behind the Debian-based Neptune Linux distribution announced today, April 7, 2017, the release and immediate availability for download of the fourth maintenance update to the Neptune 4.5 stable series… Continue reading Neptune 4.5.4 Arrives with Linux Kernel 3.18.48 LTS, Dozens of Security Fixes

7th April 2017 By Sead Fadilpašić                                               Mobile users frequently stray from official app stores when looking for new mobile applications, putting themselves under increased risk from malware, ransomware and other malicious actors. This is according to a new report by RiskIQ, which says that users in the… Continue reading Jailbreaking puts mobile users at risk

By Tom Spring April 7, 2017 , 4:10 pm                                                    MIAMI—A previously undisclosed baseband vulnerability impacting Huawei smartphones, laptop WWAN modules and IoT components was revealed Thursday at the Infiltrate Conference by researcher Ralf-Phillip Weinmann, managing director at security firm Comsecuris. In one attack scenario, the vulnerability… Continue reading Baseband Zero Day Exposes Millions of Mobile Phones to Attack

Zeljka Zorz – April 7, 2017   If you’re using one of the many QNAP NAS devices and you haven’t yet upgraded the QTS firmware to version 4.2.4, you should do so immediately if you don’t want it to fall prey to attackers.                                              … Continue reading QNAP NAS devices open to remote command execution

The data of almost a million patients with diabetes and other medical ailments has been secured.                                     By Zack Whittaker for Zero Day | April 7, 2017   A trove of records containing personal and health information on close to a million people was exposed after a former developer working at a telemarketing… Continue reading A huge trove of patient data leaks, thanks to telemarketers' bad security

A new form of Microsoft Word macro-based malware has been discovered by cyber security researchers. This malware can affect both Windows and MacOS systems but follows different methods of attack for each operating system. The malicious macro is built-up on VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) code and contains instructions to automatically execute when the file… Continue reading New Macro-Based Malware Attacks Windows and MacOS systems

  Cybercriminals initiate their attacks through hyperlinks or attachments within emails. Most of these attacks use urgency or take advantage of user trust and curiosity to entice victims to click. Here are examples of subject lines to be cautious of.    Something as innocuous as a email subject line can be one of the most… Continue reading Dangerous subject lines to watch for

6th April 2017 By Tara Seals   Movie piracy is alive and well—as are the bad actors that look to prey on the pirates.   ESET has uncovered a new ecosystem for the Sathurbot backdoor Trojan, consisting of more than 20,000 infected computers. This iteration has been active since at least June 2016, and is… Continue reading Sprawling Sathurbot Takes Aim at WordPress, Movie Pirates