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February 2017

SPAMfighter News 2017/2/28

Exposed Banker Trojan for Android Detected Masquerading Apps of Google Play Store

 

Matching the prediction of security researchers, one capable banking Trojan to suit Android, whose source code got exposed online during the middle

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/28

Security Hack Cloudbleed takes Prominence

 

Security experts advise that Web-surfers reset their passwords once again. For, Cloudbleed' name of one fresh security bug possibly hacked user-data

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/28

Germany’s Deutsche Telekom Customers Massively Affected due to Hack

 

According to German federal police, a British national, aged 29, was arrested as per a Germany issued arrest warrant under the European protocol

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/27

Florida Man Admits trying to Hack Clinton Foundation

 

A man from the Florida state recently admitted his involvement in a hacking attempt into Clinton Foundation. He already has an experience of a long

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/27

Malware Masking Chrome Font Update on the Prowl

 

The increasingly mischievous hackers have devised one fresh medium for hacking into Chrome by which end-users would be downloading certain font

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/27

Weather Application of Android Turned Cyber-Weapon to Serve Banking Malware

 

Android owners after lately downloading the application, Good Weather got slightly more over and above merely the weather forecast, basically

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/24

TeamSpy the Malware Stealing Data Reappears

 

According to security researchers, TeamSpy the data-stealing malicious program is back following a gap of nearly 4-yrs, as found in one spam

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/23

Malware Campaign ‘Operation BugDrop’ Steals Data and Audio

 

Researchers recently unearthed a sophisticated malware campaign which stole over 600 GB of data from some seventy targets in various sectors,

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/23

Model Ratajkowski Encounters Leakage of her Nude Images after an iCloud Hack

 

Emily Ratajkowski a model by profession is yet again victimized with a scandalous hack when her photos counting 200 in all are reportedly visible on

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/23

Aria Nina, Camera Girl of Shay Butler Publishes their Private Messages

 

Aria Nina, camera girl of Shay Carl Butler stated on February 20, that somebody had hacked her account on Instagram and then erased it. Earlier in

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/22

Public Ports should be Avoided for Charging One’s Own Mobile-phone

 

Free ports to charge USBs can be found all over nowadays and not disregarding their convenience, they are seemingly not necessarily a safe

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/22

Germany Declares Playing with Cayla Dolls Illegal

 

One talking doll popular among little girls in Germany has been banned because a German telecommunications watchdog apprehends the toy's turning

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/21

Yahoo yet Again Alerts about Aftermath of Hack into the Company

 

Yahoo has issued an alert to its consumers about probable malicious dealings involving their A/Cs during 2015-16. This comes as the Internet major's

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/21

Florida Spammer and Co-conspirators Sentenced

 

According to Paul Fishman, New Jersey's U.S. Attorney, a Florida resident and attacker of certain company's online site who also employed other

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/21

Exposed Targeted Malware Employed in Attacks on Polish Banks

 

Cyber criminals during recent weeks launched malware assaults against banks in Poland a campaign that could be of one far widespread event in which

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/20

Trash Dove the Latest Obsession Online

 

A widespread spam online is occurring with Trash Dove. When Year 2017 started, the innocent 'memes' that ran serially on the Internet included the

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/20

MacOS Version of Xagent Seizes Screenshots, Passwords and Especially iPhone Backups

 

One fresh variant of the Xagent malware that APT28 the Russian hacker syndicate reportedly created has been detected, while the variant attacks Mac

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/17

Senators Demand Explanation from Yahoo Regarding Hackings

 

Two Republican senators of prominence recently were disturbed about the way Yahoo handled twin mega data breaches. John Thune, Senator from South

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/17

Hackers of Nintendo NES Classic Console Look for its Compatibility with Other Games

 

The Nintendo NES Classic, which facilitated gamers of the 1980s-1990s enjoy the Nintendo games, is the last grand offer from that

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/17

Hacker makes it to Rich Homie Quan’s Instagram Account

 

The morning of Valentine's Day for Rich Homie Quan was not so good because he woke up to discover that somebody had hacked an Instagram account he

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/16

Smart Power Grid Technology may be Vulnerable to Hacking

 

Smart grid technology like management systems in the power plants - may suffer from hacking, as per scientists who delved with "nightmare"

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/16

MHA Website becomes Non-Functional, Hacking not the Cause Claim Officials

 

The Indian central Ministry of Home Affairs' (MHA) website became inaccessible on February 12 a Sunday with authorities stating that Internet

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/15

Iranian Hackers Using Revamped Malware Attack Apple Devices of Human/Civil Rights Activists

 

Collin Anderson, Internet Security Specialist writes one fresh report according to which, Iranian hackers receiving state sponsorship who had thus

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/15

Indian American Accused of Dispatching over a Million Spam Mails

 

A man, of late, faced federal charges of committing fraud for apparently distributing over 1m spam mails.

 

The man named Michael

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/15

Gmail Not Handling Messages Properly that Arrive from Impersonated @gmail.com Id

 

Renato Marinho a security researcher with Morphus Labs a Brazilian security company tells how Google Mail is not warning or filtering possibly

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/14

Former U.S. Contractor Accused of Stealing Hacking Documents from Government Archives

 

Booz Allen Hamilton's erstwhile contractor Harold T. Martin was recently accused over a suspected theft of files documented under CYBERCOM (Cyber

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/14

BC Liberal Party Premier Charges NDP with Hacking into Formers Website

 

Christy Clark, Premier of British Columbia has complained that New Democrats, the opposition party infiltrated her party's online site. However,

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/13

Mac Malware Targets Defense Industry of US

 

The report of Collin Anderson and Claudio Guarnieri, who are researching Iranian cyberespionage threats, found a malware on the website, called

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/13

Scotty’s Holdings Seized with Phishing Scam

 

The tax forms of 4,000 LLC employees of Scotty's Holdings were seized via a phishing scam soon as January was ending. With nineteen restaurants in

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/13

Mystery Malware Infects and Puzzles Polish Banks


According to Polish media reports of the week before the 6th, IT security groups of several Polish banks were extremely occupied hunting their

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/10

ICloud: New Phishing E-mails Being Circulated

 

Some users of Apple were suffering from a new phishing: so-called emails about messages from Apple iMessages.

 

If you hear the word

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/10

Hackers Strike Intercontinental Hotels Group

 

A recent hacking attack on the hotel chain Intercontinental Hotels Group is suggesting that clients require being watchful of their payment cards

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/9

Spam Mails Impersonating O2 Deliver CryptoLocker Ransomware

 

In yet another instance, dangerous spam mails are circulating, warns Information Technology Security's Federal Office. The e-mails notify of one

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/9

NGOs of Egypt Face Extensive Phishing Attacks

 

The Netizen Report offers international snapshot of the victories, challenges, and rising trends in internet rights throughout the world. It

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/9

Cyber-criminal Pleads Guilty to Participating in Theft of $1.2m by Employing Malware

 

Cyber-criminals continue to find it lucrative earnings by employing malware for contaminating end-users' computers and stealing money from the

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/8

Phishing Scam in New Mexico Targets Employers and Schools


General Hector Balderas State Attorney for New Mexico is cautioning about one perilous tax-related phishing e-mail whose sender's field shows one

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/8

Computers and Phones of Ohio County Government Became Inaccessible


This matter was found when officials of the government could not use their phones and computers on Tuesday. Ransomware is the cause but it is not

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/7

University of Connecticut Cautions Students about Fraudulent E-mails


University of Connecticut's Michael Mundrane, Vice Provost for Information Technology as well as Chief Information Officer has asked the university's

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/7

NHS Trusts becoming More and More Attractive for Ransomware Attackers


A request under the Freedom-of-Information privilege recently showed that a total of 87 NHS Trusts situated inside Wales, Scotland and England were

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/7

Database of GitLab Goes Out After Spam Attack


GitLab, a code-hosting site, suffer an outage on Tuesday following a "serious" incident, as one of Gitlab databases needed emergency

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/6

New Malware Filching Bitcoin and Passwords out of Crypto-currency Wallets


Internet security company Cyren recently detected one fresh malware which is capable of filching passwords and bitcoin out of crypto-currency wallets

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/6

Davidson County Schools declares being Victimized with Phishing Scam


Davidson County Schools (DCS) was recently targeted with one phishing scam wherein the schools' several employees were victimized, the institution

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/3

Ransomware Attack Hits Surveillance System of District Columbia Police


The police department of District of Columbia had its video surveillance machines compromised with a ransomware assault 8 days prior to Donald J.

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/3

Cyber Criminals Re-Attack Netflix with Ransomware


Netflix has gained the attention of criminals who are looking to take advantage. This time they are targeting users who are looking for free Netflix.

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/3

Companies in Connecticut State are being Warned of Fraudulent CEO E-mails


Tax Commissioner Kevin Sullivan of Connecticut has cautioned about an e-mail fraud targeting human resource wings of companies that are receiving a

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/2

Phishing Email and Spam Circulated Pace


ITS (Information Technology Services) Helpdesk of Pace sent out email to universities alerting the community about a spam and phishing email on 26th

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/2

New Surge of Fake E-mails Deliver Banking Malware


According to researchers from Cyren a security company, there's a surge of fraudulent electronic mails doing the rounds as they offer finance to

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/1

Ransomware Attack Encountered at a California Nursing School


One particular nursing school in California was attacked with ransomware around October 2016 which is in the news now. CSO Online describes the

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/1

Phishing War Targeting Customers of Bank of Ireland


Almost all spam emails, which were intercepted by ESET Ireland in the last week, belonged to types of this phishing campaign. Irish mailboxes are

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SPAMfighter News 2017/2/1

Hackers make Door Locks of Hotel Inoperable with Ransomware Attack


A hackers' gang created trouble for many travelers on journey in the Alp Mountains as it utilized ransomware for preventing guests lodged at a luxury

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