SPAMfighter News 2017/3/31

Malware Infections on Smart-Phones Increase 400 Percent during 2016

One fresh Threat Intelligence Report from Nokia just published finds that malware infections on mobile devices increased the maximum during 2016.

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/31

Doctor Charged with Infiltrating Delran Graduates’ Accounts

A doctor serving from Philadelphia faces charges that he illegally accessed social media and e-mail accounts of his women classmates of the high

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/30

Prime Accused in Cyber Crime against Girl Students Arrested

On Tuesday, Sujit Sahoo was arrested by the crime branch. Sujit Sahoo had posted the lewd photographs as well as comments on a Facebook page about

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/30

Macro Malware after Targeting Windows Computers now Infecting OS X

Mac OS users are finding things more difficult since there has been a widespread use of macro malware. Windows users are already familiar with this

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/29

Russian Hacker Admits Committing PC Fraud with Citadel Malware Kit

A PC-hacker from Russia charged with creating and using Citadel toolkit an infamous malicious program that helped steal over $500m out of victims'

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/29

Job-Hunters Close to 1.4m in Illinois Possible Victims of Data Hack

The Office of Illinois Governor reports of approximately 1.4m job-hunters within the state may've been victims of hack because someone compromised

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/29

Apple Accounts Not Hacked, yet One Need to Safeguard his/her Own Ones

A hacker syndicate asserting it is in possession of innumerable iCloud accounts spread scare that it can even from distance wipe away data on

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/28

Zero-Day DoubleAgent Attack Converts AV Products into Malware

Security Researchers recently unearthed one fresh assault known as DoubleAgent which exploits certain tool of Windows created for fixing security

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/28

Cyber Criminals Spread Malware by Using Fake Telecom Stations

Base Transceiver Stations (BTSs) are tools which are installed on towers of cellular phones. Creators of this malware have used fake BTSs to send

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/27

Hacker Accesses Job-Hunters’ Info from Kansas Employment Company

An intermediate company reportedly situated at Kansas (USA), which coordinates communication between job-hunters and employers online, declared that

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/27

MPS Engages Hackers for Garnering e-Mail Passwords of Environmentalists

A letter without a signatory that was sent to Jenny Jones, peer of Green Party said that a secretive division of MPS (Metropolitan Police Service)

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/24

Have Hackers Targeted Holly Willoughby?

Hackers reportedly have threatened Holly Willoughby by claiming that they have obtained the 'X-rated photos' to humiliate her online. Fresh reports

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/24

Necurs Botnet Shifts to Pump-and-Dump Scam Spam from Ransomware-Infected Junk e-Mails

The Necurs network-of-bots has resurfaced with active operations. However, rather than disseminating the banker Trojan Dridex or Locky ransomware,

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/23

Wrestler Paige Victimized with Hack and Exposure of Private Photos

A 24-yr-old wrestler, born in Norfolk, asserts that hackers eavesdropped into her phone following the surfacing of explicit pictures in the last

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/23

US Describes Canadian Hacker Prone to Fleeing after Hacking Yahoo Accounts

According to U.S. officials, a man from Canada charged with hacking into numerous e-mail accounts on Yahoo is actually highly endangered of fleeing

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/22

Malware Attack on ATMs Compromised Payment Cards Data in 2016

The commercial banks of India report that malware attack had compromised 2.9m payment cards swiped in ATMs which were plugged with a Hitachi switch.

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/22

Katie Cassidy Victim of Hack into her Nude Pictures

Celebrity Katie Cassidy was recently victimized with a hack when her photographs in the nude got stolen and published on the

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/21

Pre-Installed Malware Detected in Range of Android Devices

Check Point, a cyber-security firm based in Israel, has detected the malware which isn't downloaded as a result of users' use, but it is already was

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/21

Research Shows Way for Compromising Telegram and WhatsApp User-Accounts

Telegram and WhatsApp happen to be 2 instant messaging (IM) applications which support over 1bn people having accounts on them. The applications

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/21

New POS Malware MajikPOS Targets Payment Terminals in Canada and USA

One fresh Point-of-Sale (POS) malicious program is aiming attacks on terminal devices within Canada and USA. The POS named MajikPOS carries certain

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/20

Security Breach for Theft of Private Photos of Emma Watson

Emma Watson has taken to the law ever-since the star's private photos have got allegedly seized as well as posted on the Web.

The

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/20

Twitter Application Hack Results in Nazi Spam

An outside sourced hack into a Twitter program on March 14 led to the creation of Nazi spam affecting the most prominent accounts. Accordingly the

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/17

Someone Hacked the Nintendo Switch with the Help of an Old iPhone Exploit

A 19 year old Italian, namely Luca Todesco, has become prominent in iPhone jailbreaking crowd under his fictitious name qwertyoruiop, has just

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/17

Hackers Steal Payment Card Data from School Photographers’ Portal

Hackers of late attacked a firm for school photography and made global transactions utilizing Queensland parents' credit card particulars. On March

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/17

Munee Hut that Spammed 64,000 Text Messages gets Fined of 20K Pounds

Munee Hut, a firm based in Manchester had rented some outfit in Belize a country in Central America for dispatching approximately 64,000

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/16

Hacker Publishes POC for Nintendo Switch Hack

A hacker claiming his name online as 'qwertyoruiop' recently asserted as having infiltrated Nintendo Switch, which is one fresh game console that

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/16

Studying Recent Periods’ Spam Trends

Cyber-attackers are yet again distributing spam mails for their most important way to seize secured databases.

According to the

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/15

Twitter Account of Boney Kapoor Hacked, Complaint Registered against Culprits

Film producer of Bollywood, Boney Kapoor's Twitter account was hacked and after five days of that hacking, he filed a complaint at the cyber police

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/15

Lawyers to Prove Phone Hacking was Covered up Seek Special Legal Permission

Lawyers arguing a case in court have asked for being allowed to access the electronic mail A/Cs that Rebekah Brooks and James Murdoch use so it

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/15

Home Depot to Pay $25 Million to Banks in a Settlement due to Data Breach

Home Depot has taken further action to move on from its vast data breach in 2014, which involved hackers stealing credit card and email credentials

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/14

Wiper Malware StoneDrill Latest Discovery of Kaspersky

Kaspersky Lab the security company recently discovered one extremely powerful malicious program that wholly erases a disk's content. Declaring about

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/14

Fortune 1000 Organizations Bear Greater Possibilities of Encountering Data Hacks

Bitsight the security ratings company by their latest research finds that Fortune 1000 corporate houses bear a bigger risk of being targeted with

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/13

Hacker of a High School Soccer Portal Gets Two Years Prison

A computer attacker was sentenced on March 8 for a maximum of 2-yr period when he would serve the federal jail for hacking into a fan website for a

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/13

CIA Dump does not Threaten Updated iPhones

WikLeaks discarded thousands of documents on Tuesday detailing the techniques and hacking tools used by the Central Intelligence Agency for foreign

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/10

Verifone the Card Payments Giant Probing Security Hack

As per the blog 'Krebs on Security,' the payment cards giant Verifone has written to all contractors as well as company staff over e-mail advising

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/10

Spammers Leak More than 1.37bn Records

An apparently biggest spamming operation globally mistakenly enabled access of backup databases on the Internet, leaking over 1.37bn records as well

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/9

Fresh Malware Hard for Detecting while it Conceals Inside Memory

DNSMessenger a PowerShell Trojan created to attack Windows PCs was recently discovered as it utilized Domain Name Service (DNS) for exchanging

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/9

Ransomware Hits Democratic State Senators of Pennsylvania

A ransomware attacked the Pennysylvania Senate Caucus which caused locking of 16 Democratic senators and their staff members out of their computer

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/9

ATM Hacking at Banks must be Controlled, Advise Police

Following a series of cyber-assault incidences targeted at ATM software and thereafter cash collection from the automatic teller machines by

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/8

Hackers Seize Nude Wedding Photographs of Supermodel Kate Moss

Nude photographs of Kate Moss the supermodel are presently with cyber-thieves. These photos are among many in which Moss is seen in wedding gown on

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/8

Hack into Kennesaw’s Voter Database under Investigation

An investigation by the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) into a so-called data hack that occurred on March 1, 2017 night at Kennesaw State

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/7

Yahoo Hacks that weren’t Prevented Makes CEO Mayer Lose her Bonus

In a strong reprimand, Internet Company Yahoo cut short over $12m out of the compensation package of Marissa Mayer, chief executive officer as the

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/7

Pence Used AOL email to Conduct State Business which was Hacked

Governor of Indiana, the Indianapolis Star reported on Thursday that Vice President Mike Pence used his personal email account to conduct state

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/6

126 Forums of vBulletin Hacked; 819,977 Accounts Leaked on Hacking Forums

Its shame on all administrators there, as they never bother to update the vBulletin software. Information has been stolen by a hacker from several

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/6

Hackers Seize Internet-connected Toys through Bluetooth

In a hacking attack targeting CloudPets an U.S toy company, over one-half million buyers of fluffy animals, which are played via connecting them to

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/6

Slack Vulnerability’s Exploitation Enables Attacker to Grab User Access

A security flaw affecting Slack, the widely accepted conversation app associated with work, proved sufficient for experimenting with a hack into the app

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/3

Android Apps for Google Play Predictably Developed with Malware-tainted Windows PCs

Security researchers from Palo Alto Networks a security company claim that malicious coding exists in 132 Android applications present in Google's

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/3

Advertising Trojans Increase in Number to Top the Charts of Mobile Malware

According to the 2016 Mobile Threat report by Kaspersky Lab, the year witnessed nearly a tripling of mobile malware identification, with advertising

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/3

Data of Users Was Stolen due to Massive Hack of Coachella’s System

There was news last week that around 1 Mn user accounts data are getting sold by a hacker from the website of Coachella on dark web. Website of

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/2

Dridex’s Upgrade Version Dridex v4 Adopts AtomBombing

IBM X-Force recently found the highly evil banker Trojan Dridex acting strong within the area of financial online crime undergoing robust version

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/2

Numerous Businesses Victimized with Ransomware had to go Offline a Week

A survey of 2016 ransomware attacks on businesses show that 85 percent of the victims had their systems offline over more than 7 days, one-third had

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/1

Cyber Attacks Increasing on Gulf, told at Conference

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Experts told on 27th February, Monday, that the Gulf countries should tighten the coordination to combat growing number of

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/1

Mysterious Gmail Account Lockouts Result Fears of Hacking

Several users got panicked and reported that they have experienced series of issues in Google accounts on Wednesday. While few complained that they

SPAMfighter News 2017/3/1

W-2 Phishing Scam on the Prowl

In 2016, the Internal Revenue Service cautioned companies across USA that they could be victimized with an extremely harmful scam that aimed to