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Canadian authorities have arrested a man suspected of being the founder of Leakedsource.com website, and for using users’ personal information for his personal profit. Officially, Jordan Evan Bloom is being accused of unauthorized use of computer, possession of property obtained by crime, mischief to date, and selling of personal data. The accused cyber-criminal is a … Continued

It is awful enough that pornographic content is so easily accessible (even without intention) thru computer devices. Some damaged individuals had decided to spice up some harmlessly-looking Android applications, but in a very, very disturbing way. Researchers from CheckPoint determined that quite a few apps, designed mostly for the audience of children, included a malicious … Continued

Christopher Wray returns again and instead of calling strong encryption a “huge huge problem”, indicated it as an “urgent public safety issue”. The latter commentaries happened under very similar circumstances: during Wray’s speeches in specific events. This time, the Director of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) attended an “FBI International Conference on Cyber Security” event, … Continued

WhatsApp Messenger is an application, selected by millions of people all over the world. Like many other messaging-tools, WhatsApp also pays attention to users’ privacy and offers end-to-end encryption for its chats. This feature should create a private connection between partners so that their chats could not be accessed by anyone, not even the controllers … Continued

Are you currently using one of the HP laptops? You might not know but these devices can pose as a threat to your physical health. HP company has issued a security program for their laptop batteries. According to the widely popular developing company, some of their devices can overheat and cause real fire. Therefore, HP … Continued

Once again, Google Play Store is in trouble. Researchers from TrendMicro have reported that they detected 36 malicious applications. Yes, and they were featured in the Google Play Store as legitimate and safe. However, their users had no idea that their location would be secretly tracked, nor they expected that they would have to sit … Continued

If you assume that the newest processors cannot have vulnerabilities, we are sorry to disappoint. Security researchers have now expressed concerns for mostly all CPU’s, created in 1995 or later. Researchers from Google Project Zero are the ones to have reported two vulnerabilities and they are relevant to owners of laptops, PCs, tablets and smartphones. … Continued

We have already reported the security breach in the Forever 21 customers’ database. The famous clothing company has officially confirmed the unauthorized access and explained that it occurred due to the weak encryption of information. However, it has come to light that the hackers were able to infect PoS terminals with a malicious program, focused … Continued

While counting the last days of 2017, it is also important to observe the most intimidating incidents of the year. Security researchers emphasize that cyber-security received more coverage worldwide than ever, with news reporters constantly having to inform audiences about global cyber-attacks. Of course, the hot topic of the year was definitely ransomware infections that … Continued

Do you worry about your password being easy to crack? If you think that is just an unnecessary feeling of paranoia, you are wrong. In this modern era, cracking an account protected by a feebly password like “abc123” is an effortless job for most of the sophisticated hackers. Specialists from SplashData have implemented a study, … Continued

Many types of malware infections can be transmitted through social networking sites. Researchers from TrendMicro discovered a new threat: Digmine cryptocurrency miner which targets users of Google Chrome browser. First detected in South Korea, Digmine is continuing to attack people from Vietnam, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Philippines and many other countries. All of these regions are targeted … Continued

Crooks that develop ransomware infections are very hard to locate and arrest. However, due to intense operations and co-operations between countries, cyber criminals can be caught. In this case, Romanian police managed to catch five people, suspected of distributing two one of the most successful ransomware infections: Cerber and CTB Locker. The “Operation Bakovia” was … Continued

WannaCry was one of the vicious global attacks against Internet surfers. It has been estimated that victims of this ransomware included people from more than 140 countries. The outbreak prevented government utilities, private companies, personal computers and industry factories from functioning. Group of hackers called “Lazarus”: responsible for WannaCry Therefore, many security researchers decided to … Continued

While the Christmas Holiday is one of the most anticipated events of the season, it is not only about sweet biscuits, cheerful jollies or presents. In fact, vicious cyber criminals take this joyous time as an opportunity for more scams and deception of the innocent people. This time, we are discussing malware campaigns that are … Continued