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Zeus Sphinx Banking Trojan Ramps Up During COVID19
The Zeus and Sphinx Banking Trojan is showing off its ugly face more often now during COVID19, lurking and targeting desperate users looking for information about COVID19. According to researchers Amir Gandler and Limor Kessem at IBM X-Force, the researchers observed a significant increase in volume in March 2020, of the Zeus and Sphinx’s malware….
Help your users spot Covid-19 phishing emails
As the Covid-19 pandemic rises scammers are now using the fear of the public to capitalize by using a method of email phishing to steal money and data. World Health Organisation Advice There has been a growing confusion around the next steps to take, scammers can slip through the cracks. Health advice emails, advising people…
Apps In Google Play Store Found With Haken Malware
The Haken malware obtains sensitive data from victims and secretly signs them up for expensive premium subscription services. The eight apps that were found have since been removed. Users have collectively been downloaded 50,000 times. These apps were utilities and children’s games, including “Kids Coloring,” “Compass,” “qrcode,” “Fruits coloring book,” “soccer coloring book,” “fruit jump…
Android Phones Vulnerable Due To Pulse Secure VPN
Hackers are exploiting existing vulnerabilities in Pulse Secure VPN and Android Phones. The flaw tracked as CVE-2019-1150, has been rated ‘Highly’ critical. This arbitrary read file vulnerability affects multiple versions of Pulse Connect Secure and Pulse Policy Secure. This flaw allows remote attackers to connect via HTTPS to an enterprise network without the requirement of…
Signs your Android phone may have a Virus or other Malware
Here are some signs your Android phone may have a virus or malware. Remember while the external damage is usually visible, internal damage is usually hidden from view. Android Malware like virus is known to perform repeated tasks that can take up resources on your devices. Signs of Android malware may show up in these…
Hackers Use Fake Windows Update Emails to Inject Cyborg Ransomware
Hackers are using a Fake Windows Update email to inject cyborg ransomware. The email campaign has been found during the latest Windows 10 November 2019 update that was release. Users are getting fake emails regarding this update Windows update and it states that you should download the update attached. This attachment is not a Windows…
Hackers Using Discord to Steal Your Information With Malware
Researchers found that Hackers are injecting malware into Discord to steal your information. The Windows Discord application functionality is based on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This allows malware to modify its core files so that the client executes malicious behavior on startup. This Discord malware is targeting data that can be obtained from the…
Top Email Phishing Scams
Email phishing scams have evolved to a point that makes it very difficult to tell which are real and which are fake. These days phishing emails are imitating legitimate brands and people to trick victims into providing money or providing credentials over an email or a fake landing page. Roughly one in four Americans in…
Apple iTunes Bug Exploited To Deliver Ransomware
The Hackers have been exploiting the “unquoted path” flaw in the Bonjour updater in iTunes for Windows to deliver BitPaymer/iEncrypt ransomware. The Researchers from Morphinsec Labs have identified this flaw with Bonjour updater back in August the team from Morphisec immediately disclosed the vulnerability to Apple. Apple has recently patched the flaw for Windows. Windows…
Google Warns Zero-Day Bug For Android Under Active Attack
Google has stated a warning of an Android zero-day flaw actively being exploited in the wild. This flaw impacts 18 Android models including Google’s flagship Pixel, Samsung, Huawei and Xiaomi. Project Zero member Maddie Stone wrote in a technical post . which said the unpatched vulnerability(CVE-2019-2215) can be exploited in several ways. In one scenario, a…