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Payment Card Details of "Cici's Pizza" Customers Have Been Stolen By Hackers!     Coppell, Texas based food Chain "Cicis" have more than 450 franchised restaurants. The payment card details of its customers have been stolen by the hackers with the help of a POS (point-of-sale) malware. From the starting of March, Security team of Cicis was getting reports from its different restaurants that the Point-of-Sale systems are  not working properly. The behav

Do you know, Google is also a Dangerous Website?     It is a shocking but true news. Internet giant always wants high transparency between users and Google. Therefore according to Google's latest transparency report, most used search engine “Google.com” is also a dangerous website at some points.   What is the Main reason behind it? Google is handling a number of malicious websites, which owns misleading and illegitimate content. Nothing is hidden from the

Hackers Are Spreading Malware In a Legitimate Way Through “Qihoo 360”!     Qihoo 360 is a Chinese Internet Security Company, which deals in AV Tools and Web Browser. The security researchers of Check Point Security were testing the security products of Qihoo 360 and after testing they said that a malware was easily bypassing the security system of antivirus tool. When they did further investigation, security researchers came to know a fact that this malware was whiteli

Use USB Devices Carefully, hackers are using “USB- Thief” named Trojan to steal data! A new Trojan has been found by the security researchers of security company ESET. The Trojan found by them is a USB based Trojan. This is a widely used Trojan by hackers to steal the sensitive data of users these days. It is an insidious data stealer. It relies in USB devices to spread itself.   How it works? The authors of this Trojan are very smart and they have used a special mechanism

Hackers are running a Business Email Compromise Campaign in ASIA, MIDDLE EAST and US to steal money! According to a well-known security software company Trend Micro, Hackers are running a BEC (Business Email Compromise) Campaign with the help of Olympic Vision keylogger. Hackers are targeting companies of Asia Pacific and Middle East. Security Experts of Trend Micro have also seen some cases in United States too. This is a malware based campaign and hackers are targeting head employees of co

Scammers are sending Porn Links for Spreading “Android Marcher Trojan”!   According to Security Researchers of Zscaler, scammers are sending porn themed links to Android users for spreading “Marcher Trojan”. Scammers are sending these type of links through emails and SMS to users. When users click on it, a window occur with an update of Adobe Flash Player. This update is Marcher Trojan in actual. Scammers are very smart. They know that there is need of Adobe Fla

VirusTotal will now Analyse malicious Firmware too! Google has added a new tool in “VirusTotal”, which is capable to analyse suspicious firmware. Firmware is a code of low level, which act as a bridge between operating system and hardware during boot process of computer system. Most advanced hackers are using firmware as a place to spread malware, because they know it is the most secure place to hide. Even NSA (National Security Agency) of United States is using this technique. O

OmniRAT Malware is targeting Android, Mac, Windows, Linux systems! Few days ago we posted about DroidJack application, which was working as a RAT and European Police was on a hunt to find out the cybercriminals behind it. A new malware named OmniRAT has been found by some security companies which is doing the same task. DroidJack was infecting only android devices but this malware can control not only Android, but also Windows, Linux, Mac systems. This malware has been detected by famou

No need to update Antivirus in future! Researchers said! An antivirus is a basic requirement for every computer user now a days to detect the malwares. It is necessary to stay safe from RATs.  If user wants to stay safe and make sure no one is remotely messing with his computer he uses one or more antivirus software. But this antivirus software detects only that malware, about which it know very well. To detect new and unknown threats they need to be update first. This is a major issue.

There's a bad news for hardcore passionate Gamers around the world. A researcher at Security firm Emisoft have found a malware named Teslacrypt malware which is a kind of Ransomware. Ransomware is a category of malware spread online by cybercriminals in order to get a ransom money from the user in lieu of decryption key for the files, which are in possession of the criminals . This new breed of ransomware dubbed as Teslacrypt malware is found hijacking the user files especially relate