Tag Archives: Data hijacking

Garmin suffers a global outage and ransomware may be to blame

Garmin Titan GPS technology is dealing with a massive service disruption. According to reports from unidentified employees, ransomware may be the culprit. BRAZIL – 2020/06/08: In this photo illustration, the Garmin logo is seen on a smartphone. … [+] (Photo illustration by Rafael Henrique / SOPA Images / LightRocket via …

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Don’t open the ‘Winky Face’ email

A successful spam campaign is infecting computers with ransomware and other malware like cryptocurrency miners and botnet software that can send spam messages from your accounts without you noticing. Phishing attempts are usually easy to catch, but it tricked enough users to open spam messages and download malicious Zip files …

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The new Mac Ransomware is even more sinister than it sounds

The threat of Ransomware may seem ubiquitous, but there haven’t been too many strains specifically designed to infect Apple Mac computers since the first complete Mac ransomware appeared just four years ago. So when Dinesh Devadoss, a malware researcher at K7 Lab, released the findings Tuesday about a new example …

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