Tag: hacking news
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2.5 Million More Americans Were Affected By Equifax Breach
The Equifax data breach was bigger than reported, exposing highly sensitive information of more Americans than initially revealed. According to Credit rating agency Equifax an additional 2.5 million U.S. consumers were impacted by the massive data breach, the company disclosed last month, bringing the total possible victims to 145.5 million from 143 million. Equifax last […]
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Hackers Hijack Chrome Extension to Push Malware
Recently an extension for Google Chrome has been hacked, after compromising the Chrome Web Store account of a German developer team from a9t9 GmbH, and abused it to distribute spam messages to unsuspecting users. Named Copyfish, the extension allows users to extract text from images, PDF documents and video, and has more than 37,500 users. […]
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New Petya Ramsom classified as Wiper Malware
The Petya ransomware attacks that has spread in several countries, including Russia, Ukraine, France, India and the United States on Tuesday, and demands $300 ransom, was not created with the purpose of restoring infected computers at all. Comae Technologies Founder Matt Suiche, who closely looked at the operation of the malware, said after analyzing the […]
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Built-in Keylogger Discovered On Several HP Laptop Models
Your HP laptop may be silently recording everything you are typing on your keyboard. While examining Windows Active Domain infrastructures, security researchers from the Switzerland-based security firm Modzero have discovered a built-in keylogger in an HP audio driver that is spying on all your keystrokes. Keylogger is a program that records every keystroke by monitoring […]
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Don’t Fall for Chrome and Firefox “HoeflerText Font Wasn’t Found” Banking Malware Scam
The malicious scam campaign, “The ‘HoeflerText’ font wasn’t found,” is back, which was previously targeting Google Chrome users to trick them into installing Spora ransomware on their computers. This time the campaign has been re-designed to target Mozilla Firefox users with a banking trojan, called Zeus Panda. Interestingly, the attackers behind this new campaign are […]