Security News

Persistent Financial Malware ‘Nemesis’ Targets Boot Record (Threatpost)
2015-12-07 17:08

A group of attackers are behind a strain of payment card malware that has bootkit functionality, something that makes it very difficult to detect, much less remove. “FIN1,” the group behind the...

Apple boots some ad blockers from App Store to protect users' privacy (Help Net Security)
2015-10-09 12:41

Less than a month has passed since the release of iOS 9, with which Apple welcomed third-party ad blocking apps, and the company has removed some of them from the App Store. Among the temporarily b...

Google boots unwanted ad injector extensions from Chrome Web Store (Help Net Security)
2015-04-02 13:52

Google is done with tolerating sneaky ad injectors and, following the results of a study they recently conducted, they removed from the Chrome Web Store 192 deceptive Chrome extensions that affected 1...