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Ghost Push Dominates Android Malware
Malware makes up at least one percent of all daily Android app installs, finds study
Selfie Stealing Android Trojan Discovered By McAfee Labs
Tweaked Acecard trojan aims to trick gullible Android users into sending selfies and photos of their IDs
Banks ‘Under-Reporting Cyber Attacks’ Say Security Firms
Banks are not providing enough details on cyber-attacks in order to downplay security fears, say insiders
Symantec Spots Student Scam Powered By Ascesso Trojan
Scammers are trying to trick students into paying for application to the US student loan forgiveness programme
Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Tackles Multiple Zero-Day Flaws
Internet Explorer among usual suspects to get updates, that includes a fix for AdGholas malvertising campaign
Cyber Criminals Using Odinaff Trojan To Infiltrate Bank Systems
Symantec has discovered a trojan capable of hiding in the networks of financial institutions
Spotify: Malware Pop-ups Affected ‘Small Numbers’
Music service fixes the problem that displayed virus laden websites for “small numbers of users”
Turkey, Italy And Hungary Riddled With Botnets Finds Norton Research
Botnets hop on high-speed city infrastructure to fire malware, spam and other threats across the Internet
Energy Sector Is A ‘Prime Target’ For Cyber Attacks
Cyber attacks against energy companies have risen massively, with the industry a prime target for attackers
Malicious Android Apps Due To Increase By 400 Percent In 2016
Webroot's threat intelligence data identifies Asian countries as a hotbed of malicious IP addresses
Android Scam Call And SMS Security Is Undone By HTML Exploiting Malware
Android's built-in protection which flags warnings about apps trying to send premium rate messages without user consent can be manipulated by malware.
Google Pulls Four Overseer Spyware Infected Apps From The Play Store
The spyware harvested user and device data from infected Android smartphones
FBI: Ransomware Targeting Business Servers
Ransomware attacks have quadrupled in frequency since last year, US officials say
Google Chrome And Mozilla Firefox Browsers Block The Pirate Bay
Big browsers take another shot at the tormenting website
Ransomware Forces Hospitals To Payout $100,000 To Cyber Criminals
Intel Security cyber threat data idetifies the legacy IT of hospital as vulnerable to hackers
Google Play CallJam Malware Infects Half A Million Users
The CallJam malware achieved a high ranking through deception while raking in funds through premium-rate calls
Moke Malware Hops Over From Windows And Linux To Threaten Mac OS X
Backdoor.OSX.Mokes can swipe data from Apple's operating system
Ransomware ‘Nearly Half Of All Cloud Malware’
Nearly half of all malware found in enterprise cloud applications is now ransomware, according to new figures
Inteno Router Flaw Opens Up Home Networks To Hackers
F-Secure has discovered a critical flaw in the way some Inteno routers update their firmware leaving them vulnerable to malware
Ransomware, Malware Threats Rise in Second Quarter
The Quick Heal report outlines the top malware afflicting Windows and Android users, with a brief low-down on each of the malware families
Iran Removes Malware From Petrochemical Plants – Report
Iran takes 'necessary defensive measures' after malware is discovered at two of its petrochemical plants
Researchers Warn Of ‘Epidemic’ Money-Flipping Malware On Instagram
Bank followers on Instagram beware of money-flipping 'epidemic', but photo-sharing platform says scams are "low volume"
Security Researchers Discover First Twitter-Controlled Botnet
Twitoor, uncovered by ESET, can plague Android devices with malicious malware
Ransomware Spammers Turn To Ads For Cash
This year's biggest Trojan malware has turned from spreading ransomware to spreading an ad-clicking backdoor
State Of Ransomware: More Than Half Of UK Firms Are Victims
Crippling threat...20 percent of firms hit by ransomware had to cease business operations
Experiment Finds Half Of ‘Lost’ USB Sticks Will Be Plugged In
BLACK HAT 2016: Experiment shows that most half of people will plug a randomly placed USB stick into their computer, despite risk
Cyber Attack Uses Google Drive To Deliver 9002 Trojan
Hackers use Google Drive to host malicious files that seems to be targeting a number of Asian countries
Stampado Ransomware Starts Deleting Files If No Payment Is Made
The clock is ticking. Ransomware victims have just 96 hours to cough up or it begins deleting files
Ranscam Malware Poses As Ransomware But Just Deletes Your Files
Malware dubbed 'ranscam' asks for payment to unlock files, but in reality has already deleted them