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New Deepfakes forum goes mining with Coinhive

February 8, 2018 admin bitcoin, bitcoins, cryptocurrency, cryptomining, cybercrime, deepfakes, Mining, privacy, scripts

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2018 19:23:40 +0000

With the collapse of the main Deepfakes hubs on Reddit, users have moved away to other forums. Problem is, at least one of them is mining for cryptocurrency. Can your PC handle it?

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Bogus hack apps hack users back for cryptocash

February 7, 2018 admin Adware, Android, coin hive, coin miners, cybercrime, hack, hack app, Mobile, Trojan

Credit to Author: Nathan Collier| Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2018 19:30:00 +0000

Recently, we discovered a gold mine of fake hack apps that mine for Monero cryptocurrency and serve up annoying adware.

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New Flash Player zero-day comes inside Office document

February 5, 2018 admin CVE-2018-4878, cybercrime, Exploits, Flash Player zero day, Korean

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 20:55:16 +0000

Threat actors are targeting South Korea with a Flash Player zero-day in limited attacks, according to Adobe.

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Boomerang spam bombs Malwarebytes forum—not a smart move

February 5, 2018 admin Boomerang, cybercrime, forums, MBAM, Social engineering, spam, TSS

Credit to Author: William Tsing| Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 17:57:42 +0000

Boomerang Tech solutions had trouble configuring their spambots, thus dropping a few spam bombs on Malwarebytes forums. Watch us catch them red-handed in a scammer call.

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Ransomware’s difficult second album

February 2, 2018 admin bitcoins, coins, crypto, cryptocurrency, cryptomining, cybercrime, hacking, malware, miners, Mining, ransomware

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2018 15:00:00 +0000

We take a look at the difficulties faced by ransomware authors as they try to adapt and evolve to the next form of stealthier Bitcoin hoarding: cryptocurrency mining.

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Plugging a virtual leak: insecure VR app exposes customer data

January 26, 2018 admin cybercrime, data, digital interruption, hacking, SinVR, virtual reality, VR, vr app

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 22:00:00 +0000

Until a recent fix was applied, users of the VR pornography app SinVR could have found their subscriber information up for grabs.

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“Who visits your Twitter profile” spam app brings week of chaos

January 23, 2018 admin Applications, apps, cybercrime, SCAM, Social engineering, social media, spam, spread, Twitter

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 19:17:06 +0000

Last week saw a Twitter spam app claiming to show who “viewed your profile” and spreading throughout the social media platform. See how it spread, and what you can do to avoid being caught by this common scam.

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