Google Reveals An Italian Company to Sell Android and iOS Spyware to Governments In its blog, Google has published a report revealing that multiple companies have been crafting and selling spyware exploiting mobile devices’ zero-day vulnerabilities discovered by Google specialists last year. The post includes code fragments from the disputed malware. Over 30 companies turned… Continue reading Google Report Companies Creating Mobile Spyware for Governments
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10 Signs That Your Computer Is Infected With Spyware
What Is Spyware? It is a malicious program that secretly gets installed onto your device. Sometimes you can get it by downloading it together with other usually freeware programs and the other cases include someone who installed it on your device by themselves. In the case of freeware you get to download spyware without your… Continue reading 10 Signs That Your Computer Is Infected With Spyware
The 5 Most Famous Spyware Attacks
Spyware can be called the most sophisticated malware these days. It never acts openly, uses tricky techniques, and appears more often with other viruses. Together with its brother-in-law – stealer malware – spyware helps the cyber criminals to find and exfiltrate the data from attacked corporations. Moreover, ransomware that aims at individuals (exactly, STOP/Djvu family)… Continue reading The 5 Most Famous Spyware Attacks
FFDroider Stealer – the new hazard to your social networks
FFDroider is an example of a modern stealer malware that aims at sensitive data in web browsers. The overall amount of new stealers that appeared in the first quarter of 2022 says a lot about the new malware trends. FFDroider Stealer is the second malware of this type that popped out last month. The BlackGuard… Continue reading FFDroider Stealer – the new hazard to your social networks
Meta Infostealer Malware Spread via Spam
Meta, a newly crafted information-stealing malware, is distributed via a vast spam spree. The mechanism of the stealer injection within this campaign is already well-known. However, Meta is now a mainstream tool among hackers. Therefore, further attacks featuring this software but with different scenarios are inevitable. This article explains how the current malspam scheme works.… Continue reading Meta Infostealer Malware Spread via Spam
What Is Password Stealer And How Dangerous Is It?
Password stealers, or PWS, is the specific malware type that attempts to get your passwords and other credentials. These viruses have been pretty widespread over the last seven years, giving cybercriminals access to the accounts of various individuals and companies. But many users don’t know how it works and how to avoid the PWS injection.… Continue reading What Is Password Stealer And How Dangerous Is It?
What is the worst computer virus? Figuring out
Worst computer virus – what is it? Seems that anyone who has ever been infected asks this question. And each user will think that his case was more severe than someone’s else. Is that true? And which virus is really the worst? It is important to mention that computer viruses are not only “viruses”. Nowadays,… Continue reading What is the worst computer virus? Figuring out
Five Eyes Alliance, India and Japan Call for Backdoors in Software
Countries participating in the Five Eyes Alliance (which brings together intelligence agencies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United States and the United Kingdom), as well as India and Japan, have once again urged tech companies to leave backdoors in their products so that law enforcement agencies have access to content in a readable and… Continue reading Five Eyes Alliance, India and Japan Call for Backdoors in Software
Chinese hack group SilentFade defrauded Facebook users for $4,000,000
At the Virus Bulletin 2020 conference, Facebook’s security team revealed one of the most complex malware operations it has ever faced. Information security experts told about the Chinese hack group SilentFade, which defrauded Facebook users for more than 4 million dollars. The main target of these hackers, as you might guess, were Facebook users. The… Continue reading Chinese hack group SilentFade defrauded Facebook users for $4,000,000
Experts discovered Chrome largest spyware installation campaign
Specialists from the company Awake Security reported about currently perhaps the largest spyware campaign for installing spyware in Google Chrome. As part of the campaign, criminals registered thousands of domains and used extensions in Chrome to install malware on victims’ devices. Users installed spyware through 32,962,951 downloads of various malicious extensions. “The Awake Security Threat… Continue reading Experts discovered Chrome largest spyware installation campaign