Haythem Elmir

Android devices seem to be the most preferred target for hackers as there have so far been multiple incidents involving malware, ransomware and cryptocurrency miner apps designed to infect Android devices. Now, security experts have identified a new Android malware that has been dubbed as AnubisSpy. This particular malware targets […]

Buying popular plugins with a large user-base and using it for effortless malicious campaigns have become a new trend for bad actors. One such incident happened recently when the renowned developer BestWebSoft sold a popular Captcha WordPress plugin to an undisclosed buyer, who then modified the plugin to download and […]

Today, we at HackRead have discovered a sophisticated malware scam that tricks users into downloading fake Google Chrome browser installer but in reality, the file is infected with malware that installs Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUP’s) on Windows devices and connects to certain servers to receive commands from the remote attacker. Google AdWords […]

Android phones have always remained the soft target of malicious threat actors since every now and then we hear about a new malware strain hitting innocent android users. The same has happened in this case where a new malware is targeting Android phones. This particular malware, dubbed as Loapi, is […]

Another monster data dump was found online, the huge archive contains over 1.4 billion email addresses, passwords, and other credentials in clear text. The huge trove of data, a 41-gigabyte archive, has been found online on December 5 by security shop @4iQ. According to 4iQ founder and chief technology officer Julio Casal, the […]