Tag Archives: malware

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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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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