La Porte County, Indiana, has paid $130,000 to retrieve data on computer systems affected by ransomware. Occurred on Saturday, July 6, the attack was spotted before it spread to all the computer on the network. The IT department responded managed to restrict it to less than 7% of the laptops. Continue Reading
Malware scientists revealed a new malicious drive for Android devices that swaps genuine apps with forged copies built to thrust advertisements or capture legal ad events. Approximately 25 million devices have already been affected by “Agent Smith,” malware after users installed an app from an unofficial Android store. Victims are Continue Reading
Tech giants SAP, Intel, Cisco, Citrix, and Juniper have patched vulnerabilities in their respective products. This week, as part of the Patch Day, SAP issued 11 Security Notes, one of which was a Hot News Note addressing a Critical vulnerability in Diagnostics Agent. The bug, tracked as CVE-2019-0330 and featuring a CVSS Continue Reading
Microsoft issued Patch Tuesday updates for July 2019 that address as many as 77 flaws, 14 rated as Critical, 62 as Important, and only 1 as Moderate in severity. Patch Tuesday updates for July 2019 rectified security delivered in several products of the tech colossus, including Windows operating systems, Internet Explorer, Edge, Office, Azure Continue Reading
Security investigators at Microsoft have issued details of a new prevalent campaign dispensing a notorious piece of fileless malware that was mainly being found targeting European and Brazilian users earlier this year. Called Astaroth, the malware trojan has gained traction since at least 2017 and planned to steal users’ sensitive information like their Continue Reading
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