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Sale of legitimate code-signing certs booms on darknet markets

In the underground cybercrime economy, many players have specialized in one or two skills and services. It should come as no surprise, then, that some have become experts at …

Trojanized versions of 20,000 popular apps found secretly rooting Android devices

Lookout researchers have discovered some 20,000 apps that secretly root users’ phone and install themselves as system applications, which makes them able to access …

Crypto-ransomware encrypts files “offline”

Ransomware comes in various forms, and not all ransomware encrypts files – some just block computers until the ransom is paid. When the file encryption feature is …

Firefox 42 is out, with many privacy and security improvements

Mozilla has released Firefox 42, and with it, a new feature that should increase user privacy online.It’s called Tracking Protection and it’s incorporated into the …

11 zero-days uncovered in Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge

An internal contest between the North American and European members of Google’s Project Zero has resulted in the discovery of eleven high-impact zero-day flaws affecting …

vBulletin, Foxit forums hacked, attacker exploited a zero-day flaw?

On Monday, a vBulletin support manager has announced on the company’s forums that they are forcing a password reset for all of its customers.“Very recently, our …

Another teenager arrested in connection to TalkTalk hack

A 16-year-old boy from Norwich has become the fourth person arrested in connection with the investigation into the TalkTalk data breach.Detectives from the Metropolitan Police …

Researchers map out hard-to-kill, multi-layered spam botnet

A dropper component sent to the Akamai researchers led them to the discovery of a spamming botnet that consists of at least 83,000 compromised systems.The botnet is …

Signal for Android finally out, offers end-to-end encrypted calls and messages

Open Whisper Systems (formerly Whisper Systems) has finally released the Android version of its popular free, open source iOS app for end-to-end encrypted voice calls.Signal …

Open source KeeFarce tool loots encrypted passwords stored in KeePass

Denis Andzakovic, a hacker and researcher with New Zealand-based security consultancy Security-Assessment.com, has released the source code for KeeFarce, a tool that can …

Security update kills several critical bugs in Android Marshmallow

Google’s November Android security update carries fixes for seven vulnerabilities, including two remote code execution flaws that are rated “critical” …

Chimera crypto-ransomware is hitting German companies

A new piece of crypto-ransomware is targeting German companies: it’s called Chimera, and the criminals behind the scheme are threatening to release sensitive corporate …

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