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US to enact sanctions against foreign cyber attackers

US president Barack Obama has signed on Wednesday a new executive order aimed at imposing “sanctions on individuals or entities that engage in malicious cyber-enabled …

Feds subpoena Reddit for info on DarknetMarkets subreddit users

A US Immigrations and Customs Agency (ICE) special agent has recently issued a subpoena to popular social news site Reddit, asking them to share the information they might …

WordPress sites compromised to redirect to Pirate Bay clone, exploit kit

Malwarebytes researchers have spotted another malware delivery campaign that uses compromised WordPress sites to redirect users to a page hosting an exploit kit. The total …

Malware posing as MyTeamVoice app spread via Steam chat

Scammers are once again misusing the gaming platfrom Steam’s chat feature to spread malware, Malwarebytes warns. They send gamers a message with a link to a page (at …

Firefox 37 enhances security

Mozilla has released Firefox 37.0. This update includes security fixes for four critical, two high, five moderate and one low impact vulnerability. Among the new and changed …

French, Italian users targeted with judicial-themed spam leading to malware

Trend Micro researchers are warning about a clever and very well executed email spam campaign that has been targeting and continues to target French users with the goal of …

Users care about privacy when they know what info is collected about them

A recent study conducted by Carnegie Mellon and Notre Dame University researchers is calling attention to several interesting things. For one, mobile apps collect too much …

Middle-Eastern energy firms targeted with reconnaissance Trojan

An email spam campaign targeting companies in the petroleum, gas and helium industries has been spotted by Symantec researchers. Most of them are in the so-called Middle East …

Fake “Urgent billing update” email leads to Virgin Media, Paypal phishing page

Customers of UK-based telecom and ISP Virgin Media are being targeted with a clever spam campaign that is after their account information, but also PayPal account login …

Puush servers compromised to deliver malware disguised as app update

Users of screenshot-grabbing-and-easy-sharing app Puush are in danger of having their passwords stolen by malware that masquerades as the (then) latest update for the app. It …

Human error lead to leak of world leaders’ personal information

Personal information, passport numbers and visa details of world leaders who attended the G20 summit in Brisbane, Australia, in November 2014, have been inadvertently leaked …

Massive DDoS against GitHub continues

Popular web-based Git repository hosting service GitHub has been battling a massive DDoS attack – the biggest they have ever experienced – for the last four days. …

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