More than 5,000 Android ransomware kit listings have been spotted so far this year, with the median price range hitting $200. Most ransomware kits still focus on targeting Windows systems, but Android ransomware kits are selling for a premium and are expected to grow in volume and price, according to a...
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The security expert Michael Gillespie discovered a new variant of the Shadow BTCware Ransomware which is manually installed on unsecured systems. The security expert Michael Gillespie discovered a new variant of the BTCWare ransomware, the malicious code was spread by hacking into poorly protected remote desktop services and manually installed by crooks. The new Shadow BTCware Ransomware variant appends...
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The Firefox web browser is looking to alert visitors whenever they visit a website that is known to have suffered a data breach. While the ‘Breach Alerts’ feature will issue a warning about a website, it won’t actually prevent users from visiting it. “This is an extension that I’m going...
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Google has expanded enforcement of Google’s Unwanted Software Policy waring Android developers to explicitly declare data collection behaviors. A few days ago, Google was caught collecting users’ location data even when location services were disabled, many privacy experts questioned the behavior of the tech giant. Google promptly admitted the practice and suspended it. Now Google...
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With the end-of-the-year holidays quickly approaching and many users worrying whether the gifts they bought online will be delivered in time for the festivities, an email from PayPal saying their transactions were impossible to verify or their payments were not processed will throw most users for a loop. Phishers are...
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Tenafly High School has informed parents earlier this month that a student has gained access to its internal IT systems, changed grades to improve his GPA, and sent out college applications immediately after. The New Jersey-based high school has not named the student but said it informed authorities, and law...
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PayPal says that one of the companies it recently acquired suffered a security incident during which an attacker appears to have accessed servers that stored information for 1.6 million customers. The victim of the security breach is TIO Networks, a Canadian company that runs a network of over 60,000 utility...
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Sophos releases its 2018 Malware Forecast today, and the big takeaway is this: ransomware remains a huge problem for companies and isn’t going away. In 2017, attackers further perfected their ransomware delivery techniques, leading to global outbreaks such as WannaCry, NotPetya and, most recently, Bad Rabbit. Though most ransomware is hitting Windows users, it’s clear that...
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Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) একধরনের সাইবার আক্রমন যার দ্বারা সাইবার আক্রমণকারীরা বা নেটওয়ার্কে অবৈধ অনুপ্রবেশকারী বা অবৈধ অনুপ্রবেশকারীদের দল, কম্পিউটার ব্যবহারকারী বা সিস্টেম অ্যাডমিনদের অজান্তে, কম্পিউটার নেটওয়ার্কে দীর্ঘসময় উপস্থিত থেকে ও ক্রমাগত কম্পিউটার হ্যাকিং প্রসেস (processes) দ্বারা টার্গেট নেটওয়ার্কে আক্রমণ করে। এর মাধ্যমে অত্যন্ত সংবেদনশীল তথ্য (highly sensitive data) বা ...
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Description: The Bastet driver of Honor 9 Huawei smart phones with software of versions earlier than Stanford-AL10C00B175 has integer overflow vulnerability due to the lack of parameter validation. An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious APP which has the root privilege; the APP can send a specific parameter...
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