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.
A large-scale ransomware campaign targeting QNAP devices has been recently reported. Users targeted by the ransomware attacks end up with their files added to 7zip archives that are password-protected so that the user can’t access them. According to...
Google launched a new update concerning the Chrome web browser for Windows, Mac, and Linux on Tuesday. The release contains security fixes for several flaws, one of which has reportedly been exploited in the wild. The latter is a vulnerability...
The REvil Gang extortion attempt The hacking group behind the infamous REvil ransomware claims to have obtained classified data related to Apple’s products that it plans to make publicly available if the tech giant refuses to buy it back. The...
The malware strain named NitroRansomware is taking up a different approach towards money extortion. Instead of asking for real money, which most ransomware threats do, it asks its victims to send Discord Nitro gift codes as a ransom. A ransomware...
A new clever tactic for tricking security mechanisms with the idea of deploying RAT malware on targeted devices has been revealed by security researchers recently. The criminal actor behind this method of attack is a North Korean hacking group known...
Concerns about the FloC technology The latest ad-tracking technology of Google, known as Federated Learning of Cohorts (FloC) may be treated as a security concern by WordPress. The WordPress content management system, which claims to power nearly...
Google Project Zero Companies will have to patch newly discovered zero-day bugs during a grace period of 30 days, according to the new disclosure policy of Google Project Zero. The aim of this change is to speed up the time needed for the...
In a new wave of attacks aimed at unpatched Microsoft Exchange servers, cyber criminals have been actively searching the internet for servers that have not yet been updated with the latest Microsoft critical security updates with the idea to exploit...
A number of one-click bugs have been detected in various popular desktop applications such as LibreOffice, Nextcloud, VLC, Bitcoin and Dogecoin Wallets, Telegram, Mumble, and Wireshark. Those vulnerabilities could be used by attackers to execute...
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques are used by hackers to attract corporate users in what seems like a new malware-infecting tactic. Researchers have revealed that over 100,000 fraudulent Google pages that rank as top results thanks to...
