Ransomware has become a major part of online threats, and that is no surprise considering there is an incentive of immediate financial gain involved. Cryptolocker is a widespread ransomware which [...]
Ever since the discovery of FREAK, security experts at Microsoft, Apple and Google have been scrambling for a fix. This major SSL vulnerability allowed hackers to force a browser to use weak [...]
We recently researched how many potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) come with the 50 most popular applications on Download.com. Since the results were quite disturbing, we decided to look into [...]
Infamous ransomware Cryptowall has made a comeback, according to a recent Bitdefender discovery. This time, the ransomware spreads through mass spam emails that contain malicious .chm attachments [...]
uTorrent, one of the most popular torrent clients for P2P file sharing, has reportedly been installing a Bitcoin miner silently in the background with version 3.4.2 build 28913, without user [...]
FREAK, which stands for Factoring RSA Export Keys, is a massive HTTPS security flaw that allows attackers to decrypt HTTPS-protected traffic when users are accessing secure websites on their [...]
Europol, assisted by Microsoft, Symantec, and Anubis Networks have successfully taken down a massive bot network that infected over 3.2 million computers. This huge network was created by [...]
CNET’s Download.com is considered to be one of, if not, the most popular download portal(s) hosting a conglomerate of different software (free and paid). We recently discussed the top ten [...]
Superfish, the adware that was being distributed by Lenovo sounded bad enough, right? Well, here’s worse: PrivDog, a tool that tampers with SSL certificates is being promoted by Comodo, a [...]
The NSA has made the news headlines a lot lately with frequent attempts to infringe on people’s privacy, but the US is not the only player in the game. French service DGSE is responsible [...]