According to a recent study from Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), YouTube has been the subject of cookie stealing malware phishing operations with financial motives. A gang of hackers recruited from a Russian-speaking forum is believed to...
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.
New FlawedGrace Trojan Variant Distributed via Large-scale Email Campaigns
Yesterday (Tuesday, 20th of October), security researchers at the Proofpoint firm uncovered a large-scale malicious email campaign performed by the notorious TA505 hacker group that distributes a variant of the FlawedGrace RAT (Remote Access Trojan)...
Sinclair TV hit by a ransomware attack
A ransomware attack on Sinclair Broadcast Group’s systems occurred over the weekend, according to the company’s press release. On the 16th of October 2021, Sinclair discovered a possible security issue and started investigating it and taking...
The REvil ransomware gang go out of sight
The infamous ransomware organization REvil, which has been behind a number of attacks in recent years, seems to have vanished from sight once again. Records Future’s Dmitry Smilyanets was the first to notice the change, which occurred after a...
The new ransomware string Yanluowang targets big enterprise entities
The Yanluowang Ransomware A new ransomware strain that is still under development is being utilized in targeted attacks against corporate organizations. Known as Yanluowang ransomware because to the extension it adds to encrypted files on infected...
Bug in OpenSea allows Malicious actors to steal cryptocurrency from wallets
The OpenSea NFT Marketplace Malicious actors may have exploited a now-patched serious vulnerability in the world’s biggest non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace – OpenSea – that allowed them to steal cryptocurrency money from victims by sending...
Killware is the next big security threat
The Killware Virus DHS officials speaking to USA TODAY have shared that the water treatment facility showed that the malicious actor tried to alter chemical combinations to dangerous levels during the water treatment process. According to the...
Microsoft Security Patches Fix 71 Security Flaws
The CVE-2021-40449 Vulnerability Yesterday (Tuesday, 12th October), Microsoft released important security patches intended to take care of a total of 71 newly-discovered vulnerabilities in Windows which includes CVE-2021-40449 and other software...
Apple addresses a new zero-day with emergency updates for iPhone and iPad
The CVE-2021-30883 Vulnerability Apple has issued a security update for iOS and iPad that addresses the CVE-2021-30883 vulnerability that has been reported to be exploited in the wild. IOMobileFrameBuffer Identified as CVE-2021-30883, the flaw...
New Apache Path Traversal Patch Available
An actively exploited path traversal and remote code execution vulnerability in the HTTP Server of Apache received a set of additional security updates this Thursday. The main flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-41773, was fixed earlier this week, but Apache...