MaliBot was discovered last June, a banking malware that has become one of the most terrible threats for Android smartphone users, because it can steal passwords, bank details and even the contents of users' cryptocurrency wallets.
The malware is capable of accessing text messages, stealing web…
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Common cyber scams on Black Friday
Black Friday is celebrated every November 26, and businesses take the opportunity to settle discounts and offers that attract consumers. In many cases such offers are used by criminals to deceive with false free products or impersonating a…
Scams moved from the street to the online system
Cybersecurity experts are warning of a situation that arises as a result of the pandemic and that they have dubbed 'mutant scams'. These are frauds that before Covid-19 were committed at street level and that have now made the leap into the…
Data of more than 500 million Facebook accounts published by hackers
Data of more than 500 million Facebook users were compromised and published in a hacker forum. The information included emails and phone numbers of the users, as confirmed this Saturday by a cybercrime expert from magazine Business Insider.…
EMOTET network was dismantled by authorities of several countries
Police forces from different countries disarmed one of the most dangerous cybercrime networks in the world, known as EMOTET.
It operated with botnet-type software, which consists of a computer program that is responsible for infecting the…
Germany starts one of the largest cyber-attack trials
One of Germany's largest cybercrime trials began today in the city of Trier in relation to a cyber bunker allegedly operated by eight people in the municipality of Traben-Trarbach, in the center-east of the country.
The prosecution accuses…
Microsoft vulnerability is a risk for companies in the world
The security breach labeled CVSS 10.0, the highest possible dangerousness score, would allow the cybercriminal to perform malicious DNS (domain name system) queries to the Windows server, and to achieve arbitrary code execution that could…
Redcar Council suffered a ransomware attack
The Redcar and Cleveland Council confirmed they were victim of a cyber attack after a ransomware entered the server network by hijacking the private tax information of its citizens.
The same incident happened three weeks ago, where…
The year 2020 will say goodbye to passwords, according to Fujitsu
The year 2020 will have complex security attacks, although the Orchestration, Automation and Response will have a breakthrough and will also be the year in which outdated practices such as passwords are left behind, which will give way to…
Password “123456” was the least secure of 2019
The passwords '123456' and '123456789' have been the most frequent filtered by cybercriminals in the last year, and only the first one - the most common - was ever used by 3% of Internet users, according to the Ranking of the Worst…
North Korea launches attacks using cryptocurrencies
The attached assistant director of the FBI Cyber Division, said Tonya Ugoretz financial tension between the two countries has led to state actors from North Korea to cybercrime. These words were offered at an event organized by the group…
Hackers use fake Twitter accounts for crypto scams
False accounts in the social network Twitter increase and thousands of users are trapped by deceptive offers. The most recent attack of the hackers went to the account of the Supreme Pontiff, Pope Francis, pretending to promote a draw in…