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.
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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.
The CVE-2021-42321 and CVE-2021-42292 vulnerabilities Microsoft has addressed 55 issues as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday release cycle. The published security patches include solutions for two actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in Excel...
The MediaMarkt Ransomware MediaMarkt, one of the world’s largest electronics retailers, has been hit by the Hive ransomware, which has demanded an initial ransom of $240 million. IT systems in the Netherlands and Germany have been shut down...
React pipelines all around the world have been temporarily disrupted as npm library ‘coa’ was infected with malicious code. Shortly after the compromise was detected, another well-known npm component, “rc”, was discovered to...
A new “Tortilla” threat actor is targeting the Microsoft Exchange ProxyShell vulnerabilities with Babuk ransomware in an attempt to extort money from victims. According to a study released on Wednesday by Cisco Talos experts, the...
Google just released its Android security patches for the month, addressing a total of 39 newly-discovered security vulnerabilities. Among those vulnerabilities is a zero-day flaw that, according to researchers, is already being exploited in the...
More than 1.6 million devices, mostly in China, have been infected by a recently discovered botnet named “Pink”, according to security experts. The botnet’s purpose is to perform distributed denial of service attacks and inject advertisements...
A well-resourced gang with financial incentive has been attributed to being behind a widely spread rooting malware operation, with telemetry data showing that Android device owners in the United States were the most affected. The...
The Grief Ransomware gang The Grief ransomware gang, which has links to the well-known Russian cybercrime organization Evil Corp, revealed information related to the NRA on its leak site. This post sparked headlines and raised anxiety among the gun...
The Premium SMS Apps A worldwide fraud campaign has been uncovered that uses 151 malicious Android applications to trick users into subscribing to premium services without their knowledge or permission. Known as “UltimaSMS”, the premium...
The NPM package UA-Parser-JS Three versions of the popular ua-parser-js NPM package used in many apps and webpages were recently hijacked and repurposed for data exclusion and crypto mining activities. The UA-Parser-JS Malware The ua-parser-js...
