If you haven’t heard of a company called Rafotech, you’re not alone. But the simple truth is that they control an enormous network of infected computers, numbering more than 250 million devices. That number is increasing rapidly.

Rafotech offers free games, apps and other products to their customers.

Do you visit the GodLike Productions forum? If you’re not sure what that is, then you don’t have anything to worry about, but if you’re a member of that forum, you may have been infected by a particularly nasty malvertising app.

Check your device.

If you use a router built on old WiMAX technology, be advised that you’re very likely at risk. The severe security flaws were discovered by the security firm SEC Consult, and take two forms.

Firstly, there’s a flaw in the firmware that leaves the router’s admin panel exposed to the web, opening the door to remote hacking.

Microsoft has issued an emergency, out-of-band patch to shore up some critical weaknesses in Window’s Malware Protection Engine.

This is an unseen part of the OS that actively scans and prevents malicious code from ever making its way onto your system in the first place.

An AOL developer named Ran Bar-Zik has unearthed a disturbing flaw in Chrome that may make you rethink using Google’s web browser.

The issue revolves around a website’s ability to activate your camera and audio recorder. Google uses an API which legitimate developers call, that displays a distinctive red dot on the browser tab when the page in question activates your laptop’s camera and recording equipment (like it does when you activate a video call via a Google Hangout page, for example).

The problem is that this API is not required to be used, and an enterprising hacker can use malicious JavaScript to activate your camera without notifying you, and without any visible indication that the camera is on.

Security professionals have been talking for months about the dangers of smart devices, most of which are almost comically (and tragically) lacking in even the most basic security protocols. More recently, the global Wannacry Ransomware attack demonstrated that smart medical devices were vulnerable to attack, with several of them being temporarily shut down by the malware.

Last month, the fast food chain Chipotle announced that they had been the victim of a large-scale data breach, but initially, the company was unable to provide any specific information regarding the scope and scale of that attack. Now, they have, and it’s worse than anyone could have imagined.

This has been a tough month for people who are using older Windows Operating Systems, especially Windows 7 users.

The global Wannacry ransomware attack centered mostly on Windows 7 users, and now, a new attack has come to light that is making the lives of those users miserable all over again.

The recent “Wannacry” hacking attack was global in its scale, impacting companies in more than 150 nations before it was stopped by a security expert with a good eye. It was such a dangerous, widespread attack that Microsoft even took the highly unusual step of issuing an emergency patch for Windows XP users, even though they officially killed support for that platform some time ago.

Security researchers have stumbled across a vast treasure trove of hacked user accounts residing in a completely unprotected database online. The database contains more than 560 million user names, email addresses, passwords, IP addresses, physical addresses and more.