Knock knock! Trick or treat! Companies and cybercriminals play the same game. You could be opening back doors to cybercriminals this year, without even knowing it. You’ll lose this game if you don’t fight back. Ransomware attacks will capture your documents and the attackers will be expecting a big juicy reward (if you want your […]

The Gootkit bot is one of those types of malicious program that rarely attracts much attention from researchers. The reason is its limited propagation and a lack of distinguishing features. There are some early instances, including on Securelist (here and here), where Gootkit is mentioned in online malware research as a component in bots and […]

When security cameras are more like a hole than a protecting Wall, you have a problem. Cameras are a double-edged sword and webcams are the perfect example of that: they allow people to keep in touch with their loved ones and help companies hold meetings regardless of the distance between participants. However, even Mark Zuckerberg […]

Facebook banned from gathering Whatsapp users data in Germany To help better serve users of the WhatsApp messaging app, Facebook recently implemented a number of changes to the terms and conditions associated with the service. The new policy addresses information sharing between WhatsApp and Facebook – anyone who continues to use the app agrees to […]

Whether you usually use a personal or corporate credit card, anyone can be the victim of a data breach. Criminals can easily use a phishing attack to take your card number, PIN and even the security code on the back of your card. What’s worse is that they’re so quick! By the time you’ve discovered the theft, it […]

It’s unusual for a day to go by without finding some new variant of a known ransomware, or, what is even more interesting, a completely new one. Unlike the previously reported and now decrypted Xpan ransomware, this same-but-different threat from Brazil has recently been spotted in the wild. This time the infection vector is not […]

  A massive cyber-attack against US DNS service provider Dyn knocked out major websites across the Internet last Friday. The attack shut down several websites, including Netflix, Twitter, Amazon and The New York Times. The Internet service was disrupted for almost 11 hours, affecting more than one billion customers around the world. Cyber crooks are always […]

Some months ago we published a technical analysis of Multigrain, a Point of Sale Trojan that uses DNS petitions in order to exfiltrate stolen information. We also wrote about one case where this PoS malware was used to infect hundreds of restaurants in the United States. At the end of September we have seen again […]