Tuesday, July 14th, 2015
A new version of the nasty TeslaCrypt ransomware is making the rounds, and the creators have added several new features, including an improved encryption scheme and some details designed to mimic CryptoWall.
TeslaCrypt is among the more recent variants of ransomware to emerge and the malware, which is a variant of ...
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015
Encryption protects our data. It protects our data when it's sitting on our computers and in data centers, and it protects it when it's being transmitted around the Internet. It protects our conversations, whether video, voice, or text. It protects our privacy. It protects our anonymity. And sometimes, it protects ...
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Friday, May 22nd, 2015
If you sell or gift your old Android phone to someone, is it enough to do a factory reset to wipe all your sensitive data? And if your Android gets stolen, how sure are you that your anti-theft solution will do a good job wiping it and/or locking the device?
Consumers ...
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2015
Since the discovery of the Poweliks fileless Trojan in August 2014, researchers have been expecting other similar malware to pop up.
The wait is over: Phasebot malware, which also has fileless infection as part of its routine, is being sold online.
"Unlike most malware, fileless malware hides itself in locations that are ...
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Tuesday, April 7th, 2015
Trend Micro researchers have found and analyzed a new piece of crypto-ransomware: CryptVault encrypts files, makes them look like files quarantined by an AV solution, asks for ransom and, finally, downloads info-stealer malware.
It arrives on target computers after the user has been tricked into downloading and running a malicious attachment ...
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