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Free Android app identifies and uninstalls spyware

At Black Hat, SnoopWall announced the release of Privacy App for Android platform mobile devices. Privacy App is based upon the company’s counterveillance technology. It …

Two Gameover Zeus variants targeting Europe and beyond

Bitdefender has identified two Gameover Zeus variants in the wild: one of them generates 1,000 domains per day and the other generates 10,000 per day. The UK is currently the …

Turla cyber-espionage campaign puzzle solved

Turla, also known as Snake or Uroburos is one of the most sophisticated ongoing cyber-espionage campaigns. When the first research on Turla/Snake/Uroburos was published, it …

State of security: malicious sites, CryptoLocker copycats, email scams

AppRiver released its mid-year Global Security Report, a detailed analysis of web and email-borne threats and malware trends tracked between January and June 2014. During the …

Free service helps CryptoLocker victims get their files back

FireEye and Fox-IT announced DecryptCryptoLocker, a new service assisting victims of the CryptoLocker ransomware. Available immediately for no cost, the service can offer help …

Detect threat patterns across your web and mobile assets

During the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, RiskIQ announced an automated platform with global reach that enables organizations to discover, scan for malware and gather …

Android RAT impersonates Kaspersky Mobile Security

A clever malware delivery campaign impersonating well-known AV vendor Kaspersky Lab is actively targeting Polish Android users. It all starts with a spam email sporting the …

How to foil SynoLocker and minimize the damage

We wrote on Monday warning about Synology NAS users being targeted with SynoLocker, a customized version of the Cryptolocker ransomware, which encrypts the files contained on …

Poweliks malware creates no files, lays low in the registry

For most malware, performing their malicious task(s) is the primary goal, and a close second is to stay unnoticed on the system for as long as possible. As developers of …

Synology NAS users hit with Cryptolocker variant

You know that your products are getting to be very popular when cybercriminals target users with a customized version of the Cryptolocker ransomware. The products in question …

Retailers warned of attacks using hard-to-spot PoS malware

Retailers, beware: cyber crooks are increasingly targeting remote desktop applications by brute-forcing passwords, and are using that access to plant hard-to-detect PoS …

Top 10 Facebook scams

American singer and actress Taylor Swift has lost her scam mojo, as her fake sex tape spreading on Facebook was excluded from the top ten most successful scams, according to …

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