Securitate IT - protectie impotriva ransomware si al virusilor informatici

Last week on Labs, we talked about the significance of SEO poisoning in the world of search marketing, blackmail attempts against financial institutions in Canada, voice command flaws in smart assistants , survey and potential phishing scams on Instagram , and the latest changes in Office 365 . We also shared our latest intel about America Geeks , a band of tech scammers that we profiled in 2015 and 2016. Other news Theoretically, millions of smart devices are at risk of compromise if the Z-Shave attack is done in the wild . (Source: Bleeping Computer) First, SunTrust. Now, Coca-Cola . (Source: Bleeping Computer) I think we saw this coming: robots are extremely insecure and can be used as “cyber weapons.” (Source: Internet of Business) When it comes to securing IoTs, multi-modal biometrics user authentication could become the norm . (Source: ABI Research) Users in India warned of new malware dubbed “virtual girlfriend” and “panda banker” that are capable of stealing money a

Who doesn’t love a good motorcycle racing game, right? How about one easily available on Google Play, a “safe” place for all your Android app desires? How about a bike racing game that sticks with you so much, you can’t easily uninstall it? And it displays hidden ads? Wait, what!? That’s right! In the slideshow below, a game titled Motorcycle Race—Bike Race (package name: com.bikeme.racersm) has rave  reviews by users who demand to know how to uninstall the game. Click to view slideshow. Rev your engines for heightened privileges So how does one get into such a predicament? That all starts with the install process. Upon installing Motorcycle Race—Bike Race, the first screen asks to Activate device administrator. Okay, so obviously a bike racing game requesting device administrator rights with permission to Lock the screen is a big red flag. However, if you didn’t catch that, there’s another clue that something is amiss. Look at the app name asking for permission: Media Player.

Introduction As one of the leading companies in computer security, we work hard every day to bring the highest level of protection to all of our users. This requires us to constantly explore new ways of defeating malware, often experimenting with bleeding edge technology or approaches that have never been tried in our environment before - borrowing ideas from fields like biology or physics. Many of these experiments never deliver anything substantial but sometimes the results exceed even our most optimistic expectations. Here, I would like to talk about one such experiment. We started it over six years ago and it evolved into a system that quickly became one of the strongest malware detection engines we use at Avast today.