January 2020 - Page 2 of 14

The Adware Families That Changed the Antivirus Industry

This story takes us back to 2003 and for a better understanding, you would need to be aware of the fact that the cybersecurity industry back then was shaped very differently from today. […]

30 Jan

Malware Tries to Trump Security Software With POTUS Impeachment

The TrickBot malware has been spotted using text from articles about President Trump’s impeachment to bypass the scanning engines of security software. […]

29 Jan

AlphaBay Dark Web Market Mod Faces 20 Years After Pleading Guilty

Bryan Connor Herrell, a 25-year-old from Fresno, California, pleaded guilty this week in the US to racketeering charges related to the now-defunct dark web marketplace Alphabay. […]

29 Jan

Emotet Uses Coronavirus Scare to Infect Japanese Targets

A malspam campaign is actively distributing Emotet payloads via emails that warn the targets of Coronavirus infection reports in various prefectures from Japan, including Gifu, Osaka, and Tottori. […]

29 Jan

New ‘I Got Phished’ Service Alerts Companies of Phished Employees

A new service called ‘I Got Phished’ has launched that will alert domain and security administrators when an employee in their organization falls for a phishing attack. […]

29 Jan

Google Chrome Tests Replacing URLs With Search Queries in Address Bar

Google has started testing a feature that will display the search query in the Chrome address bar rather than the actual page’s URL when performing searches on Google. […]

29 Jan

Magento 2.3.4 Fixes Critical Code Execution Vulnerabilities

Magento today updated its e-commerce software for all supported platforms with fixes for multiple vulnerabilities. Some of them have critical severity and hackers could exploit them to run arbitrary code. […]

28 Jan

Ubuntu Invites Windows 7 Users With Linux Switch Guides

Canonical today published the first part of a tutorial series designed to help Windows 7 users migrate to Ubuntu Linux after Microsoft’s decade-old OS reached end of support this month and stopped receiving security and bug fixes. […]

28 Jan

Apple iOS 13.3.1 Released With Fix for Location Tracking

Apple has released iOS 13.3.1 with numerous bug fixes including a new setting that allows you to disable the constant location checks being performed by the iPhone 11 U1 chip. […]

28 Jan

Windows 10 1909 KB4532695 Update Fixes File Explorer Bugs

Today’s Windows 1909 cumulative update fixes some of the bugs that made File Explorer search unusable since the November 2019 Update was released, but there is still more room for improvement. […]

Month: January 2020

The Adware Families That Changed the Antivirus Industry

Malware Tries to Trump Security Software With POTUS Impeachment

AlphaBay Dark Web Market Mod Faces 20 Years After Pleading Guilty

Emotet Uses Coronavirus Scare to Infect Japanese Targets

New ‘I Got Phished’ Service Alerts Companies of Phished Employees

Google Chrome Tests Replacing URLs With Search Queries in Address Bar

Magento 2.3.4 Fixes Critical Code Execution Vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Invites Windows 7 Users With Linux Switch Guides

Apple iOS 13.3.1 Released With Fix for Location Tracking

Windows 10 1909 KB4532695 Update Fixes File Explorer Bugs