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 …
Read More »China uses Android malware to spy on ethnic minorities worldwide, according to new research
Piracy groups linked to China are using spyware to infect Android smartphones owned by Muslim Uighurs … [+] and other ethnic minorities. SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images China-based surveillance campaigns are using Android malware to spy on Muslim Uighurs and other ethnic minorities around the world, according to …
Read More »The EARN IT law that breaks encryption advances in the Senate
It is not frequent You see a new variety of ransomware targeting Mac, but this week researchers investigated ThiefQuest, also called EvilQuest, a variety of malware that continues to give or take, so to speak. ThiefQuest appears to be ransomware for Mac, but its developers do not appear to intend …
Read More »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 …
Read More »Remove these 25 Android apps that steal Facebook logins
Google has rexcited 25 malicious apps from the Google Play Store after the French cybersecurity firm Evina they discovered that they contained malware to hack Facebook. That means it’s time once again to check your Android device to make sure you didn’t foolishly (or accidentally) install a crap application The …
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