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More Firmware Backdoor Found In Cheap Android Phones

Here’s some bad news for Android users again.

Certain low-cost Android smartphones and tablets are shipped with malicious firmware, which covertly gathers data about the infected devices, displays advertisements on top of running applications and downloads unwanted APK files on the victim’s devices.

Security researchers from Russian antivirus vendor Dr.Web have discovered two types of

Hacking Millions with Just an Image — Recipe: Pixels, Ads & Exploit Kit

If you have visited any popular mainstream website over the past two months, your computer may have been infected — Thanks to a new exploit kit discovered by security researchers.

Researchers from antivirus provider ESET released a report on Tuesday stating that they have discovered an exploit kit, dubbed Stegano, hiding malicious code in the pixels of banner advertisements that are currently

Hackers Install Free SSL Certs from Let's Encrypt On Malicious Web Sites

Who else didn’t see this coming?

It was so obvious as I stressed earlier that the Let’s Encrypt free HTTPS certificates would not just help legitimate website operators to encrypt its users’ traffic, but also help criminals to bother innocent users with malware through secure sites.

Let’s Encrypt allows anyone to obtain free SSL/TLS (Secure Socket Layer/Transport Layer Security)