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MasterMana botnet hits users by evading detection with URL shorteners

October 9th, 2019 0

Dubbed MasterMana by researchers; the botnet utilizes every available option to target its victims including dropping backdoors and phishing attacks through business email compromise commonly known as BEC.

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Hackers found tracking web traffic of Chrome and Firefox browsers

October 8th, 2019 0

This, however, is not the first time when Chrome and Firefox browsers have been targeted in one attack altogether. Last year, Vega Stealer malware was caught stealing saved passwords and credit/debit card data from Chrome and Firefox users.

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New malware mimics Windows scanner to infect PCs with ransomware

October 4th, 2019 0

This trojan horse was discovered which pretends to be a Windows scanner by Microsoft but in reality, it is everything evil but so.

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New Android banking botnet 'Geost' hits thousands of devices

October 3rd, 2019 0

The botnet was basically composed of numerous Android phones which were were infected by getting them to download malicious applications.

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Android users installed 172 malicious apps 335m times last month

October 2nd, 2019 0

In September alone, over 335 million Android users were tricked into downloading malware-infected apps from the Google Play Store.

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Most SMB cybersecurity defence fail short to thwart malware & file-based attacks

October 2nd, 2019 0

Cybersecurity threats have come a long way from the viruses of decades ago. What's alarming is that hackers now have a multitude of tools, methods, and technologies to help them carry out attacks.