IPv6 is an expression IT professionals are likely to have seen or heard at one time, but what exactly is it?…
Month: December 2017
Facebook phishers want you to “Connect with Facebook”
As we edge toward Christmas, scammers are throwing their own party—in the form of Facebook phishing pages linked to and from…
The seven most colossal data breaches of 2017
By Logan Strain If it seems like the words “leak,” “compromised data,” and “breach” are constantly in the news, it’s not…
Tech support scammers make browser lockers more resilient
Tech support scammers have been relying on fraudulent pop-ups for many years in order to scare potential victims into calling for…
Lo lo lo Loapi Trojan could break your Android
Kaspersky has found what they deem as a jack of all trades malicious app they call Trojan.AndroidOS.Loapi. Like the Trojan AsiaHitGroup we discovered…
Mobile Menace Monday: upping the ante on Adups
Adups is back on our radar. The same China-based company caught collecting an abundance of user data and creating a backdoor on…
A week in security (December 11 – December 17)
Last week we explained what fast flux is and how it’s being abused, we showed you all kinds of Bitcoin-related scams, presented…
Tech support scammer tries to sell free software
AmericaGeeks is your typical tech support scam company, but with an extra warming glow of attitude, greed, and complete all-around rudeness….
Exosrv.com, an ad server for adult sites, tops Malwarebytes detections
Update (12/18/2017): Upon review, we have decided to lift the block on those two ad servers. You can read ExoClick’s comments…
Free tools: Internet traffic monitoring
Are you an amateur analyst or security enthusiast looking for free tools to do some basic Internet traffic monitoring? You’ve come…