For the past few weeks, security researchers analyzed various spam campaigns and found one containing a malicious Hancitor trojan. Cybercriminals use the spam email as an attack vector and lure victims to click the malicious Word documents that will drop a malware cocktail inside their PCs. One of these phishing campaigns has been delivered with the following content. Here’s how a…
Category: Windows
Lenovo has recently rolled out security patches for a severe vulnerability in its Fingerprint Manager Pro software that could allow leak sensitive data stored by the users. The vulnerability impacts Lenovo ThinkPad, ThinkCentre and ThinkStation laptops, models that run Windows 7, 8 and the 8.1 operating systems. Fingerprint Manager Pro is a utility for Microsoft…
This week we wrote about Fake Chrome MinerBlock Extension which is playing Video in the background. Ready for the weekend? Keep calm and read some of the most important news in our weekly cyber security round-up. 1. Wi-Fi Alliance Launches WPA3 Protocol with New Security Features Probably one of the most important news of this week…
Before we tell you about the most relevant cyber security news of the first week of this new year, We want to wish you all “Happy New Year” and a very safe and secure 2018! It’s been only 5 days of this year and we already learn about two major and severe security flaws found…
OK, 2018 has just started and it has totally borked all networks in the whole world. That’s a fine mess we’re in to start off the year.:) Meltdown and Spectre are CPU hardware design flaws that we techies understand. In a nutshell, Meltdown breaks the isolation between the user app and the OS, so the…
A design flaw in Intel microprocessors has Linux and Microsoft Windows developers reworking their kernels to defend against exploitation of the security bug. Details of the flaw have not yet been made public, and Intel and Microsoft have remained mum about the chip design flaw, which was first reported by The Register this week. The report said…
This week we published a security alert about a new wave of spam campaigns containing the Emotet banking trojan that can exploit Windows admin rights on users’ PC. We also included a protection guide to better fight against these online threats. 1. Top 25 Worst, Most Insecure Passwords Used in 2017 How secure are your passwords? Are you…
Guess who after nearly 2 months, it’s the Emotet banking trojan that’s been around for a while and aims to harvest users’ sensitive financial information. Be careful! For the past days, researchers have been analyzing several spam campaigns containing the Emotet banking trojan and found that the malware authors have been using payloads to perform malicious…
The most important story of this week was probably the one about a security breach suffered by NiceHash, one of the most popular crypto-mining marketplaces. The the stolen money was tracked to a single Bitcoin wallet and the amount was estimated at $70 million. Curious to read what happened this week in the industry? Here…
Running Microsoft’s Windows operating system, then you need to apply this emergency patch immediately. By immediately, I mean now! Microsoft just has released an emergency security patch to address a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in its Malware Protection Engine (MPE) that could allow an attacker to take full control of a victim’s PC. Enabled by…
