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.
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...
Twitch, an Amazon-owned interactive livestream platform, has registered a massive data leak after an anonymous user on the 4chan message board posted Twitch’s source code, an unreleased Steam competitor developed by Amazon Game Studios, and...
Security researchers revealed that threat actors have been using a previously undocumented UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) bootkit since 2012 to backdoor Windows systems by altering a legitimate Windows Boot Manager binary to gain...
In a major development in the fight against ransomware, authorities in Ukraine have reported the arrest of two “prolific ransomware operators” who are accused of launching a series of targeted operations against big industrial...
Facebook is down Around GMT-7 today, 4th of October (Monday), a large number of users across the globe started reporting that Facebook is down and messages sent via the Messenger app are not going through. In addition, Instagram and Whatsapp also...
The Fake Amnesty International Antivirus A fresh example of how hacking organizations are fast to capitalize on global events and adapt their attack operations to maximize their effect is the discovery of threat actors distributing malware...
The Tomiris malware The Nobelium threat actor that was behind last year’s SolarWinds supply chain attack has likely created a backdoor that hasn’t been documented before, according to a recent research. The new threat has been named Tomiris...
The FoggyWeb Malware Custom malware used by the Nobelium hacking organization has been spotted to spread additional payloads and steal data from Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) servers. This discovery was announced in the Microsoft...
The ERMAC Malware A new Android banking trojan known as ERMAC, which targets Poland and has roots in the notorious Cerberus malware, has been discovered by ThreatFabric researchers in a recent report. According to the information that is available...
The Jupyter Malware distribution via MSI installers A .NET infostealer named Jupyter has been tracked by security experts for its propensity to target healthcare and education organizations. The malware seems to be particularly effective at evading...
