Google has removed from the Chrome Web Store a malicious browser extension used by criminals in Brazil to target corporate users with the aim of stealing banking credentials. The twist is that the attackers did their homework on their targets, learning via social networks whom inside an organization was closely involved in making financial transactions. […]

Beware Joomla, et al: An analysis shows that web applications are the soft underbelly of organizations—the chink in the armor that hackers can use to successfully compromise their operations. That’s the word from Alert Logic, which conducted an analysis of more than 2 million security incidents that were captured and escalated in its systems during […]

George is in his office responding to his morning emails when he notices an unusual message. The subject is concise: “Security Alert”. Obviously, he wants to know what’s going on. He opens it, reads the first paragraph to see what the problem is, then clicks the link ostensibly taking him to the company page where […]

Indian police have arrested four people on suspicion of leaking an episode of Game of Thrones before it was aired on the sub-continent, in another sign of the security challenges facing major content companies.The incident, unrelated to the more recent hack of GoT broadcaster HBO, involves the fourth episode of season seven of the wildly […]

Mamba was among the first samples of ransomware that encrypted hard drives rather than files that was detected in public attacks, primarily against organizations in Brazil and in a high-profile incursion against the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency last November. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab said today in a report that a new run of Mamba […]

The popular web browser released a major update on August 8, version 55, which — in addition to some nifty new features, like Virtual Reality support — includes a number of security fixes. Firefox 55 remediates three critical and 11 high-impact vulnerabilities, as well as seven moderate and six low-impact vulns. Of the critical and […]

Android phone owners have been warned that a strain of malware known as FalseGuide has been downloaded onto close to two million handsets. The malicious software had been hidden inside a number of apps on the Google Play store between 2016 and early 2017. The apps appeared to be guides to other Android games, and […]