Month: June 2019

Computer security is such a serious business with the risk of financial harm, data loss, and hardware damage that it can be a nice change of pace to run into a scam that brings a chuckle. Such is the case with a phishing scam that pretends to be an email informing you that Google has […]

Tech support scammers are targeting users through search ads for recipes on ISP start pages and custom search result pages that redirect users to browser lockers stating that their computers are infected. […]

Vulnerabilities in the BlueStacks Android emulator were fixed at the end of May that allowed attackers to perform remote code execution, information disclosure, and to steal backups of the VM and its data. […]

The Sodinokibi Ransomware has been spotted being distributed through malvertising that redirects to the RIG exploit kit.  With the use of exploit kits, Sodinokibi is now using a wide stream of vectors to infect victims with the ransomware. […]

Individuals with security roles have a different opinion about the cloud threats organizations should be wary about and defend against than the more practical approaches actually seen in security incidents. […]

A forum dedicated to social engineering topics was breached about two weeks ago and data from tens of thousands of members leaked online on the very same day of the hack. […]