Cybersecurity news headlines May 1-15, 2019
In our first May edition of cybersecurity news headlines, there are three stories to report on. We discuss President Putin signing a law to disconnect Russia from the rest of the web; a Twitter bug exposing iOS users’ locations; and a WhatsApp vulnerability that allows attackers to infect devices with spyware by simply calling them.…
Cybersecurity news headlines for 15-30 April, 2019
To continue our April edition of cybersecurity news headlines, we have 3 stories to report on. We talk about Facebook, its data harvesting practises and inability to secure user data, as well as report on MalwareTech pleading guilty to two charges to conspiring to create and distribute the banking trojan Kronos.…
What are sextortion scam emails
Once in a while there is a surge of the so called sextortion scam emails (also known as porn blackmail scam emails) that want your Bitcoin. The emails are written in bad English, claim to have a video of you watching adult content, threaten to send the video to all your contacts, and demand Bitcoin in…
Cybersecurity news headlines for 1-15 April, 2019
The first half of April has been rather quiet, but we do have three stories to report on in this edition of cybersecurity news headlines. We report on Julian Assange being arrested after almost seven years in Ecuador’s embassy, and 540 million Facebook records being publicly accessible on Amazon servers. We also discuss the…
Cybersecurity news headlines for 15-31 March, 2019
In this edition of cybersecurity news headlines, we report on four major stories. Social media Facebook made headlines once again, and this time for storing hundreds of millions of plaintext passwords. Toyota announced a security breach that potentially exposed the personal information of around 3.1 million customers. $19 million worth of cryptocurrency was stolen…
In this article, we are going to overview a specific form of malware that is aimed at mining online currency like Bitcoin, Dashcoin, Monero, Monero Original, and other. Unfortunately, there are plenty of threats of this type roaming the Web nowadays including such parasites as Debug.exe miner, Valhalla miner, Miner.exe, Harvest miner, CPU miner, SiaCoin miner, JS:Cryptonight miner, WaterMiner malware,…
Cybersecurity news headlines for 1-15 March 2019
We’re already halfway through March and while we do have three stories to report on, nothing of major impact has happened in regards to cybersecurity in the last two weeks. In this edition of cybersecurity news, we discuss a local government paying a $400,000 ransom, adware found in Android apps, and 809 million records…
There are about four billion Internet users in the world. A significant percentage of these users tend to browse the Web on a daily basis. Unfortunately, along with legitimate sites, you are likely to encounter unreliable ones. Most corrupt domains are created for one purpose only: make money off of unsuspecting computer users. It is imperative to stay one step…