Someone has used the plot and visuals of the Mr. Robot show to create FSociety ransomware.
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Tag Archives: Threats
The giveaway: All that glitters is not gold
Not every giveaway might be good for you and the latest case with O2 shows how the damage can become really huge. All that glitters is not gold!
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Official Dota 2 Forums Hacked
Are you an active member of the Dota 2 community? Then it’s time for you to change your password(s).
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Payment card (in)security and you
A Russian cyber-crime group seems to have hacked their way into the computer systems at Oracle.
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A look ahead at an olympic-sized criminal competition
In a few days the Olympic Games in Brazil will start. It will be a fascinating event with a huge visual spectacle and exciting competition. Apart from the big samba show stage, don’t forget about all the existing problems in this huge country such as poverty, high criminality rates, and corruption.
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Locky goes offline (by design)
New Locky variant can encrypt files without directions from the ransomware’s CnC. That makes it tougher to block. But, this new variant may have the weakness that once someone has paid the ransom for their private key ID – it should be possible to reuse the same key for other victims with the same public key.
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Star Wars, hackers, and the call of the dark side
Whether you’re a Star Wars character or a real-life hacker, beware of the dark side.
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Locky is back with a twist of COM
Locky is continuing to evolve after its return to the marketplace last week. The new June 28 variant uses Windows COM objects to erase old copies, resulting in more difficult behavior-based detection by security programs.
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Adware puts on football championship kit
Don’t blame the ‘Hand of God’ for those ads on your smartphone
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32 Million Twitter Passwords on the Dark Web?
Well, if one thing can be said about the last couple of weeks it’s that they were not boring at all – at least when it comes to your social media passwords.
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