Tag: Avast
Microsoft Patches 2 Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
Microsoft's security update for May 2023 is the lightest in volume since August 2021 with fixes for a total of 49 new vulnerabilities including...
Cybersecurity Is a Major Risk for SMEs (Laurent Descout)
Cybersecurity is a very real threat to the UK’s 5.5 million small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
The often-limited cybersecurity tools many SMEs use to protect their operations...
Avast Fined €13.7 Million for Illegally Selling Customers’ Data
Kamso Oguejiofor-Abugu Published on: April 5, 2023 Avast, a multinational cybersecurity and antivirus company, has been fined approximately...
BianLian Ransomware Pivots From Encryption to Pure Data-Theft Extortion
The BianLian ransomware group is ramping up its operations and maturing as a business, moving more swiftly than ever to compromise systems. It's also moving...
Avast Introduces Avast One Platinum
TEMPE, Ariz. and PRAGUE, March 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Avast, a leading digital security and privacy brand of Gen™ (NASDAQ: GEN), today launched Avast One Platinum, the new premium tier of...
MQsTTang: Mustang Panda’s latest backdoor treads new ground with Qt and MQTT
ESET researchers tease apart MQsTTang, a new backdoor used by Mustang Panda, which communicates via the MQTT protocol ESET researchers have analyzed...
Malicious Game Modifications in Dota 2 Infected Players with the Malware
Several security researchers identified that malicious game mods of Dota 2 served as a potential threat to backdoor the player systems.A suspicious attacker came...
Malicious Game Mods Target Dota 2 Game Users
A threat actor recently uploaded four "mods" containing malicious code into the catalog in the official Steam store that players of the popular Dota 2...
Avast Threat Report: Consumers Plagued With Refund Fraud, Tech Support Scams, and Adware
TEMPE, Ariz. and PRAGUE, Feb. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Avast, a leader in digital security and privacy, and a brand of Gen™ (NASDAQ: GEN), saw an increase in threats using social...
Avast Releases Free Decrypter for Victims of BianLian Ransomware Attacks
Tyler Cross Published on: January 19, 2023 Victims of the BianLian ransomware attacks can download the free decryption...
Norton’s LifeLock Password Manager Faces Breach
Tyler Cross Published on: January 17, 2023 Hackers breached Norton Password Manager in early December, according to Gen...
Big Prizes, Cash on Offer for Joining ‘DDosia’ Anti-Ukraine Cyberattack Project
A Russian threat group is offering incentives and cryptocurrency prizes in an effort to recruit Dark Web volunteers — who it calls "heroes" — to...
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