Author Archives: Swati Khandelwal

Google Kicks Out Largest Android Adware Family From The Play Store

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With the rise in the mobile market, Adware has become one of the most prevalent mobile threats in the world. Adware has traditionally been used to aggressively push ads like banners or pop-ups on mobile screens to make money.

The troublesome part is t… Continue reading Google Kicks Out Largest Android Adware Family From The Play Store→

7 Things That Happened After WikiLeaks Dumped The CIA Hacking Files

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This week WikiLeaks published “Vault 7” — a roughly 8,761 documents and files claiming to detail surveillance tools and tactics of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

The leak outlined a broad range of flaws in smartphones and other devices that the agency uses to intercept communications and spy on its targets, making even China and Germany worried about the CIA’s ability to hack all

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How Dutch Police Decrypted BlackBerry PGP Messages For Criminal Investigation

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The Dutch police have managed to decrypt a number of PGP-encrypted messages sent by criminals using their custom security-focused PGP BlackBerry phones and identified several criminals in an ongoing investigation.

PGP, or Pretty Good Privacy, an open … Continue reading How Dutch Police Decrypted BlackBerry PGP Messages For Criminal Investigation→

New Apache Struts Zero-Day Vulnerability Being Exploited in the Wild

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Security researchers have discovered a Zero-Day vulnerability in the popular Apache Struts web application framework, which is being actively exploited in the wild.

Apache Struts is a free, open-source, Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework for creati… Continue reading New Apache Struts Zero-Day Vulnerability Being Exploited in the Wild→

10 Things You Need To Know About ‘Wikileaks CIA Leak’

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Yesterday WikiLeaks published thousands of documents revealing top CIA hacking secrets, including the agency’s ability to break into iPhones, Android phones, smart TVs, and Microsoft, Mac and Linux operating systems.

It dubbed the first release as Vault 7.

Vault 7 is just the first part of leak series “Year Zero” that WikiLeaks will be releasing in coming days. Vault 7 is all about a covert

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WikiLeaks Exposed CIA’s Hacking Tools And Capabilities Details

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WikiLeaks has published a massive trove of confidential documents in what appear to be the biggest ever leak involving the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

WikiLeaks announced series Year Zero, under which the whistleblower organization will reve… Continue reading WikiLeaks Exposed CIA’s Hacking Tools And Capabilities Details→

New Fileless Malware Uses DNS Queries To Receive PowerShell Commands

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It is no secret that cybercriminals are becoming dramatically more adept, innovative, and stealthy with each passing day.

While new forms of cybercrime are on the rise, traditional activities seem to be shifting towards more clandestine techniques tha… Continue reading New Fileless Malware Uses DNS Queries To Receive PowerShell Commands→