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Alleged HBO hacker identified, charged and indicted
HBO suffered a massive data breach in July and August this year in which network’s unaired episodes of…
November 23, 2017
Uber Paid Hackers $100k to Hide Massive Theft of 57M Accounts
It’s surprising to some and shocking to many. Despite a rough phase that the US-based ride-hailing service has…
November 22, 2017
Woman scammed for $60,000 through fake Police website
With every passing day, cybercriminals are getting sophisticated in their attacks; it can be phishing or malware attack,…
November 16, 2017
A tricky Netflix phishing scam users should be aware of
Netflix has over 100 million users, and that is the reason it has become a highly lucrative target…
November 8, 2017
Over 1 million Android users downloaded fake WhatsApp app
Scammers tricked over 1 million Android users into downloading a fake version of the popular messaging app WhatsApp pretending…
November 5, 2017
FIN7 Spear Phishing Attacks Now Aim At Avoiding Detection
The FIN7 hacking group has been targeting organizations from the retail sector of late, and Security Research Team…
October 24, 2017
Fake Cryptocurrency Apps on Play Store Stealing User Data
The US-based cryptocurrency exchange service Poloniex, which happens to be the largest exchange service in the world with…
October 24, 2017
The Pirate Bay Caught Secretly Running Cryptocurrency Miner Again
In September 2017, we reported that The Pirate Bay (TPB) was running a cryptocurrency miner provided by CoinHive. The code used visitor’s…
October 12, 2017
37K Chrome Users Tricked into Downloading Fake Adblock Plus Extension
For those who use Adblock Plus alongside with Google Chrome web browser or recently installed its extension, here is…
October 11, 2017
New Malware Hits ATMs Running on Win7 and Win Vista
Kaspersky Discovers New Malware Strain ATMii that Attacks Win7 and Win Vista ATMs. The IT security researchers at…
October 10, 2017