Oh Snap! Lenovo protects your Security with '12345678' as Hard-Coded Password in SHAREit

What do you expect a tech giant to protect your backdoor security with? Holy Cow! It's "12345678" as a Hard-Coded Password. Yes, Lenovo was using one of the most obvious, awful passwords of all time as a hard-coded password in its file sharing software SHAREit that could be exploited by anyone wh...

Microsoft Bans Superfish SSL Interception Adware

Microsoft has taken steps to impede the next Superfish from impacting users. Superfish was pre-installed adware found on new Lenovo laptops earlier this year. The software exposes users to man-in-the-middle attacks because of the way it injects advertisements into the browser. It comes with a...

Dell aeration eDellRoot root certificate Backdoor-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Earlier this year, Lenovo computer was found loaded with the Superfish adware program, this software will increase the user vulnerable to hackers attack risk, the moment sparked a lot of discussion, and recently, the Duo lab security researcher in Dell Inspiron 1 4 Notebook found some strange...

This Malware Can Secretly Auto-Install any Android App to Your Phone

Own an Android Smartphone? Hackers can install any malicious third-party app on your smartphone remotely even if you have clearly tapped a reject button of the app. Security researchers have uncovered a trojanized adware family that has the capability to automatically install any app on an Androi...

Shuanet Adware Roots Android Devices

A new strain of adware buried in repackaged popular Android applications is able to root devices and earn its keepers a tidy $2 per installation. Shuanet behaves more like malware and shares some heritage with two other adware families—Kemoge and Shedun—that also root devices and give their...

This Malware Can Delete and Replace Your Entire Chrome Browser with a lookalike

Security researchers have uncovered a new piece of Adware that replaces your entire browser with a dangerous copy of Google Chrome, in a way that you will not notice any difference while browsing. The new adware software, dubbed "eFast Browser," works by installing and running itself in place of...

Google AdMob filter vulnerabilities, malicious ads sneak into the application-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! There are Android app developers complained, because the official advertising network poorly regulated, resulting in this pollution-free Android application infected with malicious ads. Android app strange is implanted in the third-party advertising From Sydney, two bus the Android app Arrivo a...

How Some Chinese Hackers Started Making Big Money

We know that Hackers hack for a variety of reasons: ...some hack to test their skills, …some hack to gain recognition, ...some hack to make money, ...some hack to support their Nation-State strategy, ...and, some hack alone, and some hack in Groups. And Chinese Hackers are the ones who are infamo...

Kemoge Malicious Adware Campaign

Google has been busy removing a number of apps from Google Play that are disguised as popular selections that are actually pushing what starts out as adware but eventually turns more malicious. Google has already yanked down a file-transfer app called ShareIt, developed by Zhang Long of China, wh...

YiSpecter Apple iOS Malware Distributes Adware

Researchers warned that the November unveiling of the WireLurker malware targeting Apple platforms could turn out to be a blueprint for Mac and iOS malware writers. While WireLurker was quickly squashed and proved to be fairly benign, its authors demonstrated how the abuse of Apple-issued...

Mozilla Firefox Launches Web Extensions API to Support Chrome and Opera Extensions

Should we feel happy about it? Let's find out! What Firefox has been thinking of is, it is planning to bring in Google chrome's web browser extensions to support the features of Mozilla Firefox. The parent company of Firefox i. e. Mozilla Foundation has decided to update their add-on and extensio...

Unpatched Mac OS X Zero-day Bug Allows Root Access Without Password

Hackers have their hands on something of your concern. A severe zero-day vulnerability in the latest, fully patched version of Apple's Mac OS X is reportedly being exploited in the wild by the hackers. The vulnerability could allow attackers to install malware and adware onto a target Mac, runnin...

Google to Expand Use of Safe Browsing to Stop Unwanted Software

Google is expanding the use of its Safe Browsing mechanism to warn users about a broader variety of unwanted software, in addition to the warnings they see regarding phishing pages, malware, and other threats. Safe Browsing is the service that Google uses to help protect Chrome users from malicio...

Gunpoder Android Malware Hides Malicious Behaviors in Adware

A stream of new Android malware infections is sounding a harsh tone on two fronts: hackers are making free and open source applications their own; and legacy security software needs to step up detection of adware behaving maliciously. The Gunpoder malware is spreading via third-party Android app...

Searches for Pirated Content Lead to Pain and Little Gain

People love to try and get something for nothing, especially on the Internet where there’s all kinds of things available for nothing. But a lot of those free things are illegal and attackers have become very adept at taking advantage of users’ desire for free episodes of Gilmore Girls or bonus...

Adware-Laden Skype Botnet Disrupted

Skype, Microsoft’s now ubiquitous video/messenger program, has long been a go-to destination for attackers looking to peddle their malware. The latest campaign to leverage the software – a botnet circulating adware, composed entirely of Skype users – was recently disrupted by researchers. Ronnie...

Spybot Search & Destroy 1.6.2 Security Center Service - Local Privilege Escalation

Spybot Search & Destroy 1.6.2 Security Center Service Privilege Escalation Vendor: Safer-Networking Ltd. Product web page: http://www.safer-networking.org Affected version: 1.6.2 Summary: Spybot – Search & Destroy S&D is a spyware and adware removal computer program compatible with Microsoft...

Xiaomi Mi 4 Smartphone Pre-loaded with Malware and Custom Android ROM

Once again the very popular and the world's third largest smartphone distributor Xiaomi, which had previously been criticized for secretly stealing users’ information from the device without the user's permissions, has been found spreading malware. The top selling Android smartphone in China,...

Mozilla Pushes Hot Fix to Remove Superfish Cert From Firefox

Mozilla has issued a hot fix for Firefox that removes the Superfish root certificate from the browser’s trusted root store. The patch only removes the certificate if the Superfish software has been removed from the machine already, however. The Superfish adware performs SSL interception–essential...

Lenovo Admits and Released an Automatic Superfish Removal Tool

The computer giant Lenovo has released a tool to remove the dangerous "SuperFish" adware program that the company had pre-installed onto many of its consumer-grade Lenovo laptops sold before January 2015. The Superfish removal tool comes few days after the story broke about the nasty Superfish...