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Put it to work for the Folding@Home distributed computing project to uncover how the virus's spikes latch on and how they can be blocked.

S nadmírou reklamy se mohou setkat tuzemští uživatelé na svých chytrých telefonech. Českým internetem totiž hojně kolují škodlivé aplikace, jejichž hlavním úkolem je právě zobrazování reklamy. Za to pak kyberzločinci inkasují peníze. Vyplývá to z analýzy antivirové společnosti Eset.

More than 50 Android apps on the Google Play Store—most of which were designed for kids and had racked up almost 1 million downloads between them—have been caught using a new trick to secretly click on ads without the knowledge of smartphone users. Dubbed "Tekya," the malware in the apps imitated users' actions to click ads from advertising networks such as Google's AdMob, AppLovin',

A cyberattack that targeted the World Health Organization is probably just the tip of the iceberg according to experts reacting to the news this week.

Europol seized 34K fake surgical masks, while the office of NY's AG wants registrars to explain how they're battling the sale of lies.

The cyberattacks -- some on industrial targets -- use a previously unknown trojan dubbed Milum.

Is sacrificing your personal privacy worth flattening the coronavirus infection curve? Weigh in on our Threatpost poll.

A cybersecurity researcher today disclosed technical details and proof-of-concept of a critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting OpenWrt, a widely used Linux-based operating system for routers, residential gateways, and other embedded devices that route network traffic. Tracked as CVE-2020-7982, the vulnerability resides in the OPKG package manager of OpenWrt that exists in the

The DarkHotel group could have been looking for information on tests, vaccines or trial cures.

Adobe has fixed a critical flaw in its Creative Cloud Desktop Application for Windows.

Modbus Modbus is a serial communication protocol developed by Gould-Modicon systems (now Schneider Electric) in 1979 for integrating and using it with PLCs (Programmable Logic Controller). Modbus has become an industry standard for connecting various industrial devices. Modbus is a master-slave communication protocol and can support up to 247 slaves for connecting and communications with […]

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While the Coronavirus pandemic continues to strike chaos across the global economies, threat actors keep on launching cyberattacks on organizations from all sizes and verticals. IR providers face a unique challenge when approached by these organizations since, due to the Coronavirus mass quarantine, conducting incident response engagements by arriving physically to the customers' offices is

As of January 2020, there are almost 4.54 billion people around the world that are active internet users. This means that the internet is reaching just past 59 percent of the world’s population.  Taking this data one level deeper, we can see that China, India and the United States lead the world when it comes […]

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Defending against cybercrime Cybercrime bears tremendous costs for organizations, with some estimates showing the annual cost of cybercrime to reach $6 trillion by 2021. But while there’s no shortage of cybercriminals, the growing cybersecurity talent gap means employers have to work hard to attract top workers. In the United States, the average supply-to-demand ratio across […]

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A domain name that points to a website hosting your generated content is still one of the most secure means to ensure that an online identity does not fall prey to hackers or hijackers.

The ad-fraud malware lurks in dozens of childrens' and utilities apps.

Facebook has done this before: it did it with WhatsApp, following an outbreak of lynchings sparked by viral social media hoaxes.

Na přelomu minulého a tohoto týdne se doslova roztrhl pytel s podvodnými nabídkami, které lákají důvěřivce na mobily zadarmo. První lidé již kyberzločincům sedli na lep. Poradíme, co v takovém případě dělat.

If you thought the Mirai botnet was bad, what about a version under the control of Russia's military that it could point like an electronic cannon at people it didn't like?

V operačním systému Windows byla nalezena dosud neznámá bezpečnostní chyba, kterou již zneužívají hackeři. Alarmující na celé situaci je fakt, že oprava této zranitelnosti není k dispozici. Informoval o tom server TechCrunch.