Security experts from Trend Micro discovered a new malware tracked as Virobot that combines ransomware and botnet capabilities. Virobot encrypts files on infected machines and is also implements spam botnet abilities and leverages it target other systems. Virobot was first spotted on September 17, 2018, experts pointed out that it is not […]

Money Transfer Scam – Scammers hack the victims’s email accounts, monitor conversations between the buyers and title agents, send instructions on where to wire the money. A new homebuyer moves through a period of vulnerable transition as they invest in their future. This sensitive stage — a confusing flurry of […]

Cybercriminals’ interest in IoT devices continues to grow: in H1 2018 we picked up three times as many malware samples attacking smart devices as in the whole of 2017. And in 2017 there were ten times more than in 2016. That doesn’t bode well for the years ahead. We decided […]

Three men are facing charges in what federal prosecutors describe as a $364 million Ponzi scheme that entrapped more than 400 victims nationwide. U.S. Attorney Robert Hur announced at a news conference Wednesday that 53-year-old Kevin Merrill of Towson, 54-year-old Jay Ledford of Westlake, Texas, and Las Vegas, and 28-year-old […]

Cloudflare announces today its own onion service, which should make anonymous access easier to websites in its network, and reduce the malicious traffic aimed at them. Using the Tor Browser to visit websites anonymously can be pretty frustrating for the regular user, who has to prove their human condition by […]

According to the Akamai 2018 State of the Internet / Security Credential Stuffing Attacks report, worldwide malicious login attempts are on the rise. Akamai detected approximately 3.2 billion malicious logins per month from January through April 2018, and over 8.3 billion malicious login attempts from bots in May and June 2018 […]

Ubuntu Released security updates frequently this month and fixed multiple critical vulnerabilities that affected the Ubuntu package. The vulnerabilities are fixed with the latest packages if you have enabled automatic update in your Ubuntu servers the updates will be applied automatically. php5 vulnerabilities Ubuntu fixes the several vulnerabilities that affected the PHP that provides  corresponding […]