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March 2016
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/31
USA’s Hacking Charges against Countries’ Nationals could Backlash Other Countries Doing Same Vis-À-Vis American Citizens
The Justice Department of United States recently charged 7 Iranians having connections with the intelligence section for allegedly executing cyber
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/31
United States DOJ Indicts Seven Iranians in Hacking Conspiracies
The Department-of-Justice in USA has declared a legal charge against 7 hackers who allegedly received state-backing from the government of Iran. The
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/30
New Ransomware ‘Surprise’ Spreads Infection through TeamViewer
A fresh ransomware infection occurred with indications appearing on forums about Bleeping Computers where victims of ransomware commonly gather to
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/30
Nemucod and Ransomware Together could Cost Infected User a Fortune
Today we have an exponential number of contaminated electronic mails, says IT security firm ESET. Such electronic mails carry malevolent attachments
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/30
Carbanak Gang Reappears with Enormous Cyber-attack
Proofpoint recently detected an enormous cyber-attack in which the APT gang Carbanak from Russia is involved while returning to business.
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SPAMfighter News 2016/3/29
Google and Apple Tricked into Approving Apps Which Again Steal Instagram Credentials
Google and Apple have once more been cheated in accepting rogue applications on their App stores. The new applications steal passwords and usernames
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/29
Fully Functional Exploit for Stagefright Bug Posted for Android Devices
Zimperium a security company, during August 2015, found the Stagefright security flaw that led to the beginning of release of security updates every
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/28
Pakistan Closely Watches Indian Army Activities Using Smeshapp
As neighbouring countries of the subcontinent Pakistan and India continue long time rivalry on the terrain, their battle has now moved on cyber space
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/28
Adware Infects Firmware of 40 models of Low-End Android Smartphones
An Android Trojan displaying unwanted ads which installs nuisance software on mobile phones has been found in the firmware of smartphones, and also in
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/28
$100 Million of Bangladesh Bank Stolen by Using Malware
A private investigators report revealed that hackers who stole over $100 Million from account of Bangladesh in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/25
Samas Ransomware Spreading, Warns FBI Together with Microsoft
A characteristic ransom software posing danger impacts organizations and individuals in the same fashion. Fundamentally, it is one kind of malware
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/25
Hijacking of iCloud Account Comparable to Ransomware Attack
It can be as unpleasant as having one's iCloud A/C compromised if not more unpleasant when compared to a ransomware assault as cyber-criminals have
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/24
New iOS Trojan AceDeceiver Detected in China
One fresh malware created to compromise iPad and iPhone critically endangers several hundred million appliances as it has the ability to contaminate
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/24
LulzSec Hacktivist Lands Up As Employee of Online Payments Company
"tFlow," ex-member of LulzSec is preparing to join Secure Trading an online payments company in U.K. He'll be working in the position of
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/23
Digital Certificates are Stolen by Groups of Cyberespionage to Sign Malware
Code-signing certificates that are stolen are used by more cyberespionage groups to make its tools of hacking as well as malware look similar as
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/23
An Inventory was taken in the Staminus Data Breach
A security firm focused on DDoS mitigations and found that almost 50GBs of compromised data was published to the Web over the weekend after an
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/22
Malvertising Campaign Strikes Websites of BBC, NYT, MSN, NFL, AOL
The ad-networks of many top-tier websites were compromised during the weekend when criminals attacked The Hill, BBC, The New York Times, MSN, AOL and
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/22
Hacker Identified in Well-known Fappening Scandal
According to FBI, Ryan Collins had committed a crime during November 2012-September 2014 when he distributed spear-phishing e-mails that appeared as
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/22
Anonymous Declares Major Campaign against Donald Trump on 1st April, 2016
Hacker group, anonymous, works around the ethics of anonymity amongst the hackers also. They don't recognize each other by their real names; rather
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/21
Telegram Introduces Upgrades for Ios, Android While Backing 5,000 Member Groups
During November 2015, Telegram launched its Supergroups so group admins could increase their member counts belonging to regular groups to a whopping
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/21
Infamous Hacker GhostShell Reveals True Identity to Obtain Legitimate Job
The hacking crew Team GhostShell's leader GhostShell recently disclosed who he actually was during an interview to CyberWarNews.info and
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/18
Currently TeslaCrypt, Locky and CryptoWall are Top 3 Ransomware Threats
Fortinet gathered the data by using its Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) system. The company logged traffic from infected systems to IPs, which
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/18
A Different Android Trojan Flaunts Non-Existent Adobe Flash Player to Infect Users
New update is yet to be released by Adobe in this new month. Hence, users who still have not installed the update 20.0.0.306 of Flash Player should do
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/17
Security Bug Used in Live Attacks is Fixed by Releasing Adobe Flash Player 21.0.0.182
Flash Player new versions are released by Adobe Systems in trying to fix 18 dangerous vulnerabilities, which can be exploited to control PCs,
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/17
Hackers Spoil a Bank Robbery of $1 Billion Because of a Wrong Spelling
Bank officials said that a spelling mistake in an online bank transfer instruction has helped in preventing a $1 billion (about Euro 890 million)
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/17
Banking Trojan Has Been Replaced by Locky Ransomware by Dridex Botnet
Researchers are tracking a huge spam campaign bombarding inboxes with Locky ransomware downloaders in the form of JavaScript attachments. Security
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/16
OnionDog APT has been Attacking Korean Energy and Transportation
In recent times, Helios Teamat 360 SkyEye Labs discovered that OnionDog, a hacker group, are infiltrating as well as stealing information from
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/16
Let’s Encrypt Reaches a Milestone of One Millionth Encryption Certificate
Let's Encrypt issued 1 millionth certificate around three months ago when it launched as a public beta service. The number of encrypted domains using
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/15
KeRanger the Latest Ransomware for Mac PCs
Apple-users worldwide are in a state of anxiety ever-since they heard of a cyber assault targeting Mac PCs in a ransomware campaign that blocks user's
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/15
Indian Diplomats, Military Personnel Face Continuous Cyber-Espionage Attacks
From the middle of February this year (2016), according to security researchers in India, a wave of Internet attacks has been ongoing within one
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/14
Seagate Staff Victimized with Phishing E-mail, Discloses Numerous Tax Forms
An employee of Seagate who got one spear-phishing electronic mail, which appeared like one genuine in-house request about sending someone of the
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/14
New ransomware after Encrypting User’s Data-Files Provides Audio Note of the Ransom
One fresh kind of ransomware has entered the Web first encrypting users' files in the usual manner and then in one twist, reading out the ransom
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/14
Intel Fixes McAfee Virus which Enabled Attackers to Disable Antivirus Protection
As per Agazzini Maurizio, security researcher of Italy, working for a local IT security advisory firm namely Mediaservice, the antivirus of McAfee
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/11
Pro-ISIS Hackers Attack Website they thought was Google
A hackers' gang claiming its name as "Cyber Caliphate Army" and apparently supporter of ISIS militants declared a promise on Telegram a
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/11
Incident Regarding Email Phishing Affects Employees of Main Line Health
The IRS and FBI are now probing a spear phishing scam, which exposes every employee of Main Line Health at risk for theft of their identities. IRS
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/10
Turkish Hacker Admits to Orchestrating Worldwide Theft of $55m
A hacker from Turkey considered key person behind orchestrating a scheme leading to theft of several million dollars worldwide recently pleaded guilty
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/10
New Trojan Triada for Android Devices
Kaspersky Lab the security company has found a Trojan designed for attacking Android devices. This Trojan dubbed Triada is similarly functional and
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/10
Apple Takes Over Firm Involved in Mac Firmware Worm
During November 2015, Apple completed the acquisition of LegbaCore a firmware security firm, said Trammell Hudson security researcher through a
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/9
Mars Rover Software Utilized to Create Cyber-Spying Malware
Over the years gone by, Afghanistan has had trusted business partnership in India because it got India's help in erecting its current Parliament
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/9
Pirates Hack Shipping Company: From High Seas to High Tech
VerizonRISK (Research, Investigations, Solutions and Knowledge) Team released a report revealing the victimization of "a global shipping
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/9
ATMZombie is the First Trojan Targeting Israeli Banks
ATMZombie was detected in November 2015, uses the method of classic proxy-changing for sniffing out Web traffic to portals of banks, and then in the
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/8
Hacking Team Creates Fresh Mac Malware
The controversial 'Hacking Team' the surveillance and intrusion IT company in Italy seemingly has become active again, following one fresh Mac malware
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/8
Data Hack at Snapchat Follows an Employee’s Response to Phishing E-Mail
A data hack into Snapchat systems during the weekend followed when an employee at the company got tricked with a phishing electronic mail which
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/8
Cloud Sync Applications Cause Malware to Spread Across Computers
One fresh report shows how cloud application use rapidly expanding isn't merely disseminating malicious software quicker than before, but
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/4
Malware Indicates the Return of Hacking Team
Hacking Team already come under the radar once it got exposed of its spyware-selling methods by an enormous leak, however the company may be
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/4
Hackers Operating Dust Storm Attack Critical Infrastructure of Japan
A threat group which has attacked many targets, including defense agencies of US since 2010, has now focused all its efforts on critical
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/3
UC Berkeley Suffers Security Infringement
In the year 2015, a data breach was detected at UCB (University of California, Berkeley) when the Information Technology department of the university
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/3
‘uKnowKids’ Accuse Security Researcher of Hacking its Computers
A condemnation of executing hacks on Chris Vickery Security Researcher followed when he found one leaked database consisting of critical information
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/2
Porn Clicker Malware Infects Android Applications within Google’s Pay Store
After April, May and July 2015 respectively, click-jacking malware has yet again attacked Android applications, which successfully circumvented the
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/2
Operation Dust Storm for Targeted Attacks against Japanese Critical Infrastructures
Security researchers recently exposed one targeted attack scheme worldwide spanning 6-yrs that sought to collect sensitive information stored at
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/2
Baidu Browser Takes on Infostealer Behavior
Web-browser Baidu that's usable on Android and Windows displays activity such that it can be clearly described an infostealer for the reason it
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/1
Security Researchers Analyze Sony Hackers’ Gang they Call Lazarus Group
The Sony Picture hackers of 2014 have been found to belong to one prolific gang carrying out assaults since 2009 if not earlier, and has apparently
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/1
Hacker Pleads Guilty for Stealing Nude Images of Celebrities, Not the Fappening Author
Andrew Helton, aged 29, was charged of accessing naked pictures of Hollywood stars, and also was detained under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act on
SPAMfighter News 2016/3/1
Anonymous Exposes Information Belonging to Cincinnati Police Officials
A black man without any self defensive arm was shot at to death. This angered the Internet-based hacktivist group Anonymous that fought the police of
