If you use Google's Chrome web browser, there's a new threat you should be aware of. A new trojan targeting Windows-based machines will attempt to steal passwords stored in the Chrome browser.
Dubbed CStealer, it was discovered by the Malware Hunter Team.
There's a new strain of malware in the wild. It is targeting Android devices and disguised as an innocuous chat app.
Researchers at Trend Micro have discovered it in two different apps so far: Chatrious and the Apex App. Chatrious has since vanished from Google's Play Store, but at the time this piece was written, the Apex App is still available for download.
FaceApp is in the news again but this time it's for a counterintelligence threat.
Several months ago, watchdog groups around the world sounded the alarm about the Russian-made app, which raised curious eyebrows.
It just takes a photo you upload to it and ages you, what's the harm in that?
According to the FBI, quite a bit, actually.
Recently, the Magento Marketplace was acquired by Adobe and suffered a breach of exposure for a limited amount of user data to an unknown third party.
When Adobe discovered evidence of the breach, they temporarily shut the marketplace down so they could assess the extent of the breach.
The 2019 Holiday Season is officially upon us, and unfortunately, that means you need to apply scam awareness because scammers around the world are ramping up for another busy season.
Deals abound on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Sadly, those two big shopping days mark the beginning of a mad sprint to push out as many shopping-related scams as possible.
Since October 2018, Microsoft engineers have been tracking a new strain of cryptomining malware specifically designed to target Windows machines.
As malware goes, this one isn't particularly dangerous.
It's not designed to mass delete files, lock your system down or flood you with pop-up ads.
Are you a fan of Google's Cloud Print service? It's fantastic because it allows you to print from anywhere to anywhere, which makes it utterly invaluable.
Like so many great services Google has introduced over the years, for a variety of reasons, the company has decided to pull the plug on it after keeping the service in Beta for more than a decade.
Recently the US branch of the global telecom company T-Mobile disclosed a security breach that impacted more than 1 million customer's personal data. The T-mobile data breach revealed certain information belonging to a small number of the company's prepaid cellphone users.
Early in 2019, a new strain of ransomware appeared. Called "DeathRansom," its bark was initially much worse than its bite. Researchers quickly discovered that the new strain only pretended to encrypt a user's files.
The company Fortinet found a threat via radar detected a new ransomware variant that they break down for you here.
Zombieload V2 is here. First discovered in May of this year, it was described as a successor to the infamous Meltdown attack. That was a data-leaking side-channel vulnerability that impacted all Intel processor generations from 2011 and beyond.
Intel hasn't had a good run of late, being beset almost constantly by these kinds of issues, and Zombieload was one of three new MDS variants discovered.
