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New Overlay Malware Targets Android Mobile Devices
( Update: check the latest version of Comodo’s mobile security app) A new type of malware that tricks its victims in to sharing their login credentials in mobile apps has been found affecting Android smartphones. The malware family, dubbed as…
Why we need to understand the difference between antivirus and anti-malware
There are many people who get confused with the terms antivirus and anti-malware and fail to understand the difference between them. A few years ago it was just viruses that computer users were worried about and simple, free antivirus software…
How to protect your websites and visitors against eval(base64_decode ( ))
Wordpress is perhaps very popular as a CMS among those who are not that tech savvy. It’s easy to use and of course inexpensive too. But many who use WordPress never realize that this easy, inexpensive CMS is quite dangerous…
Malware Strike in the Form of Fake Speeding Tickets
The Malware A very innovative kind of malware has struck and taken people by surprise in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Some residents of the Philadelphia suburb Tredyffrin have reportedly received speeding tickets on email with instructions to pay the fine…
Hospitals Have a New Form of Virus to Fight – Ransomware
Hospitals in the U.S. are bracing themselves to fight against a new kind of virus threat – one that doesn’t weaken their patients’ immunity but seizes their sensitive medical records and encrypts them. However, for an industry that is focussed…
Mobile Security Threats are real and critical
Yes, Mobile Security Threats are real…and critical Mobile devices are so common and so much a part of our day to day lives that we can’t perhaps live without them. Thus it’s easy for hackers to make their entry into…
Hackers Could have Injected Malware in Bangladesh Bank
The Bangladesh Bank – the Central bank of Bangladesh, has been hacked and breached, and nearly $1 billion has been stolen by cyberthieves. They have gotten away with about $80 million, and chances of recovering them look pretty bleak. The…
MAC VS MALWARE: STAY SAFE TIPS FOR YOU
Mac users no doubt are the luckiest of the lot; they are relatively safer. Yeah, they are much safer than the rest of us computer-internet users when it comes to Malware attacks. But trouble makers are there everywhere. It’s sort…
Apple Computers Hit by a Ransomware for the First Time
Apple no longer holds the trophy of being more immune to virus problems. In a first, many Apple users recently reported their Mac computers being infected with a kind of ransomware that encrypts files in their computer and demands a…
Mazar BOT Could Wipe Out Your Phone…(If You Are Not Savvy)
Another malware is now targeting Android devices. Heimdal Security, a Denmark-based security solutions company, had discovered that a malicious APK, termed as the Mazar BOT has been targeting and infecting Android devices. The Mazar BOT appears in the form of…
