Category: Malware

Qakbot banking trojan

POS Malware Data Breaches and Why They Keep Happening

You might have heard about data breaches affecting many people for a while now and the things that may come in your mind are all about backend systems, computers, and maybe mobile devices being...

remove xHelper malware

How to remove xHelper malware on Android

xHelper is an Android malware that was detected by security vendor Malwarebytes in May 2019. This is a covert malware removal program. Even after the user restores the factory settings, the malware will be...

Internal Revenue Service phishing

Over 500 malicious Chrome extensions collected user’s data

After receiving feedback from security researchers, Google has removed more than 500 extensions with malicious behavior such as ad redirects, secretly uploaded private data from millions of users. Some of these malicious extensions have...

Plurox malware

New Ekans ransomware targets industrial control systems

Ransomware called Ekans (also known as Snake) first appeared in December 2019 and is targeting against industrial control systems (ICS). It is reported that since the first appearance of Ekans, researchers from various security...