Collaborate Disseminate
Why go to all the bother of writing ransomware that demands victims pay a Bitcoin ransom? If all you want is cryptocurrency, why not use the infected computers to mine the crypto coins themselves?
The post Smominru! Half a million PCs hit by cryptomin… Continue reading Smominru! Half a million PCs hit by cryptomining botnet
Fitness trackers breaching your privacy, how anyone can create convincing celebrity porn, and how ransomware authors are getting ripped off by scammers.
All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast b… Continue reading Smashing Security #063: Carole’s back!
Google says that it is getting better than ever at protecting Android users against bad apps and malicious developers.
Read more in my article on the We Live Security blog.
Continue reading Google smashed over 700,000 bad Android apps last year
If you use a Tor-to-web proxy service you you are putting an enormous amount of trust in their hands that they are not meddling with the information you are seeing – or indeed the data that you are sending.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Securi… Continue reading Bitcoin hijack steals from both ransomware authors AND their victims
If you use a Tor-to-web proxy service you you are putting an enormous amount of trust in their hands that they are not meddling with the information you are seeing – or indeed the data that you are sending.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Securi… Continue reading Bitcoin hijack steals from both ransomware authors AND their victims
Talk about having a bad day… First you get hit with ransomware, demanding you send a Bitcoin payment to anonymous hackers Then you realise that you don’t have a secure backup of your files, so you’ll have to pay up to have any hope of… Continue reading Bitcoin hijack steals from both ransomware authors AND their victims
The criminals left empty-handed. Which, let’s face it, is probably the likely outcome for many Bitcoin investors too.
Continue reading A real-life armed robbery of an online Bitcoin exchange
Even Google, one of the world’s largest advertising companies, seems to be incapable of guaranteeing a stream of safe ads.
Continue reading Stop dilly-dallying. Block all ads on YouTube
People exercising on far-flung military bases are being exposed by their fitness tracker.
Read more in my article on the We Live Security blog.
Continue reading Privacy of fitness tracking apps in the spotlight after soldiers’ exercise routes shared online
While the website’s front-end is digging for cryptocurrencies, the back-end is secretly hosting a keylogger designed to steal unsuspecting users’ login credentials.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading Keylogger found on thousands of WordPress-based sites, stealing every keypress as you type