Google+ to go offline after security breach discovered
Following an exposé by WSJ that revealed Google had kept a huge bug in their Google+ social network under wraps, the search giant has decided to shut it down by late 2019. The bug might have enabl…
Danabot opens a US account
After making its presence felt in Australia and European banks, Danabot, a modular Trojan horse has made its way to the States. Written in Delphi, the perpetual beta modular malware can take screenshots, log keys and stealin…
Not a pretty picture: A current threat actively terrorizing Instagram users is shutting down high-profile accounts. A recent string of cyberattacks targeting popular influencers — some with over 100,000 followers — have account-holders alarmed while th…
Microsoft included Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) with its offerings for the first time in 1996. Since then, cybercriminals have been trying, sometimes with success, to hack into machines via this protocol and we’ve seen countless RDP attacks done by di…
With IoT devices populating American homes at such a rapid rate, The American Consumer Institute Center for Citizen Research (ACI) took a close look at the average American router, the digital doorway between every home or office and the rest of the in…
Are you one of the 50 million people who found themselves logged out of Facebook upon waking this morning? If so, there’s no cause to panic. Here’s what’s happening.
On Wednesday, the Port of San Diego reported that it was hit by a cyberattack that seized up their information technology. On Thursday, the Port updated that info to confirm that the cyberattack was indeed ransomware.
Swiss Army Knife malware gets 7 additional modules
All-in-one super malware hits the internet
A self-propagating malware mashup has been found lurking online. Called Xbash, the all-in-one malware is thought to be made by crime syndicate Iron Group and boasts of botnet, ransomware, diskwiper, cryptojac…
In the bustling industry of cybercrime, ransomware has always been a popular weapon of choice…until this year. In 2018, illicit cryptomining (AKA cryptojacking) took the title, surging 459%. Cryptojacking is the crime of using somebody else’s compute…