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TorrentLocker (Cryptolocker) Ransomware is Back Once Again With More Advance Features     The well-known windows ransomware TorrentLocker is back once again. This ransomware is also famous as Cryptolocker ransomware. This ransomware was active in 2014 and it was targeting windows users by encrypting their system data. The hackers were spreading this ransomware via the various type of spam email campaigns. According to the various security firms, this ranso

Electronic System of UK NHS Hospital Hit by Malware!     On 30th October 2016, the electronic system of NHS’s (National Health Service) Lincolnshire and Goole trust has been hit by a malware. After this incident, NHS immediately posted an alert on its official website that all the surgeries, outpatient checkups, diagnosis and appointments which are going to hold on 2nd November have been canceled. NHS also informed that all the major trauma cases have been diverted to neighb

Bye Bye Ransomwares! Now We have Crypto Drop!           A new system has been discovered by a team of security researchers, which is capable to defeat all type of Ransomware. These security researchers belongs to Villanova University and University of Florida. A new “dubbed Crypto Drop” named system has been developed by these security researchers which can save data of Ransomware victims. With the help of “Crypto Drop”, users

Hackers are targeting Web Servers with “KimcilWare Ransomware”!   Do you know about Ransomware? (click here to know about Ransomware) Security Researchers has found a new Ransomware called KimcilWare. This is a hard coded Ransomware, which is specially designed by its authors to target web servers and many e-commerce business websites. This Ransomware is more affective on that websites, which are using Magento. MalwareHunterTeam discovered this Ransomware. The researche

What is Ransomware? With the advancement in technology of internet, criminal activities also got the pace. Most of the times attackers are one step ahead of Security Researchers. There are large number of platforms available for attackers to attack including Web Applications, Networks etc. Creating backdoors using malwares and getting remote access is one of the traditional techniques of attacking. With the advancement in technology attackers also devise new techniques. Somewhere or the

Beware Android Users! “Xbot” Trojan is stealing Banking Credentials! The security researchers at Palo Alto Networks, found a new Trojan in Android Devices. The name of this Trojan is Xbot and this is capable to steal all the sensitive data from your device. This Trojan is not widely spread yet but it is targeting the devices in Russia and Australia. This Trojan can steal online banking login credentials of users. It is a ransomware which can hold file hostage of any device. T

8 Cyber Security lessons which we should learn from 2015! 2015 is no more now but it leaves a lot of lessons for everyone. These lessons are related to every field of technology and daily life. But here we will talk about the lessons which we should learn about cyber security. In 2015 a lot of vulnerabilities had been found by researchers and a lot had been fixed by the products and application’s owners. We will discuss about some topics which could be useful in this year for all the cy

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

Trend Micro researchers Jaaziel Carlos, Jonh Chua, and Rodwin Fuentes came up with another analysis report showing the discovery of another Ransomware family dubbed "PE_VIRLOCK". But here comes the interesting fact that surrounds this New breed of Ransomware. VIRLOCK is a ransomware which is detected to be infecting files as well as doing the routine job of locking the computer screen demanding some ransom. About the Malware and its Routines The first Variant of VIRLOC

Antivirus software company Bitdefender has reported top 10 adware apps available on Google Play. The apps which include "what is my ip" still existing in Google Play, has been playing havoc in users' smartphone as well as PCs. These so called "Google Play adware" apps are integrated with sophisticated malware which makes users either subscribe to a premium-rated numbers with the help of scareware messages or get more apps installed with a even higher number