The MrbMiner Malware A new crypto-mining malware known under the name of MrbMiner has recently made its way to the top of the security news headlines. This threat is a creation of a gang of cybercriminals that, over a period of a few months, has...
Category - News
This category covers the News section of HowToRemove.Guide. We primarily focus on news in the security and anti-malware industry, but not limited to them, as we have recently engaged in broader interests related to browsers, operating systems and their relationship to hardware.
User experience has become a driving factor on the internet, merging areas which were once clearly separated. A prime subject in this is the intersection between the user privacy we all covet and how new features introduced to safeguard that privacy can be exploited by malware creators.
Examples:
- Hacker hide skimming code inside the favicon Metadata of E-commerce sites.
- Safari Surpasses Google Chrome with Security advantages.
- UK competition regulator claims that Google search engine deal with Apple limits competition.
In a technological world of rapid change, we at HowToRemove.Guide need to be fully aware of how that world changes to ensure we can be at the driving edge of knowledge on what malware creators can use against every day users.
And the first step to that is to be constantly informed of all coming changes.
Apps carrying Joker malware detected (and removed) Google Store
In spite of the many different security measures that the Google Play Store has in place to prevent malicious and harmful apps from getting approved and uploaded to it, hackers always seem to find a way to get rogue software inside the Store and...
A hacking group from Iran sells access to corporate networks
A hacking group from Iran, that has been attacking VPNs of different corporations over a period of several months, has now started selling access to some of the hacked networks to other hackers. In an attempt to monetize the compromised systems, the...
Cisco IOS XR vulnerability
Two days ago, on Saturday, the technology manufacturing company Cisco reported a newly-discovered (Zero-Day) vulnerability in their Internetwork Operating System (IOS) that is present in lots of Cisco products. The vulnerability is labeled as CVE...
Tesla factory targeted by hackers
A Russian hacker attempted to hire a Tesla employee occupied in Tesla’s factory in Sparks, Nevada. This week, US authorities arrested a Russian national who traveled to the United States with the intentions to hire and convince an employee working...
New QBot Trojan Hijacks Email Threads Outlook
QBot Trojan Malicious operators are utilizing a new QBot Trojan to intercept legal electronic messages in order to harvest financial details and credentials. Security researchers from Check Point have just released a research on one of the latest...
Hackers-for-hire are targeting companies-new 3Ds Max malware
Companies using the 3D computer graphics application known as 3Ds Max have become the target of mercenary hackers, says security company Bitdefender. The hackers behind the attacks have been found to store their malicious code in the 3Ds Max plugins...
Google Chrome responsible for half of all DNS queries
Chromium-based browsers responsible for half of all DNS queries Verisign’s research division recently came up with a shocking discovery that nearly half of all DNS queries to root servers are actually done by Google Chrome and other Chromium-based...
FritzFrog botnet targets government servers
FritzFrog Botnet 500 government and business SSH servers have been targeted by the newly-discovered FritzFrog P2P botnet from the beginning of 2020. The cybersecurity firm Guardicore has recently published a research report on a new peer-to-peer...
Google services are down – Gmail and G Suite suffer a disruption
A global disruption of Gmail and many G Suite services was reported by users all around the globe on Thursday, around 2:00pm AEST. The outage of Google’s services affected millions of users worldwide. According to people’s reports, issues with...