online threats

The Play ransomware group, more commonly referred to in cybersecurity circles as “Playcrypt,” has carved out a chilling reputation across the digital threat landscape since its emergence in mid-2022. This ransomware-as-a-service operation has evolved from relative obscurity to become one of the...

When it comes to protecting Windows PCs, few areas are more surrounded by myth, misconception, and outdated advice than antivirus software. For decades, security-focused users swapped stories of malware outbreaks, slowdowns caused by bloated security suites, and the secret tricks they swore...

As phishing threats continue to evolve, attackers are leveraging increasingly sophisticated methods that use legitimate cloud platforms to disguise their malicious campaigns. Recent research has uncovered a worrying trend: the abuse of Google Apps Script as a vehicle for launching convincing...

In early 2025, a significant security vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-4664, was discovered within the Chromium project, which serves as the foundation for several major web browsers, including Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. This flaw pertains to insufficient policy enforcement in the...

A sudden wave of panic rippled through the gaming community this week following widespread reports of a massive Steam data leak, which allegedly compromised account information for more than 89 million users. As rumors and speculation intensified across social media and tech forums, Valve, the...

Windows Defender, Microsoft’s trusty default security friend, is like that basic vanilla ice cream at your office’s holiday party—ubiquitous, generally acceptable, but likely to leave the connoisseurs digging for something with more sprinkles. For IT professionals, small business owners, and...

They beckon seductively from restaurant tabletops, leap out at us from bus ads, and dangle from the bottom of suspicious emails like a worm on a fishing line—QR codes, those enigmatic square mazes of pixels, are now as much a fixture of daily life as the coffee-ring stains around them. Yet...

Does anyone feel that phishing has developed? E.g. in my personal feeling, there are fewer email scams nowadays. Your thoughts, guys?

Hi My wife just got one of those Microsoft has locked your computer because you are using a fake version of Windows messages. This one even had an official sounding voice playing a threatening message. The computer was locked up, so I Control Alt Deleted out and shut the computer down and...

I recently made a support call to what I thought was HP customer support. The rep that answered tried to convince me I had a virus in my hard drive and that I needed to purchase Microsoft Forefront Security Service. At this point I ended the call, however I did foolishly allow the rep to access...

According to an article by Ars Technica and work done by the NSS labs: Second place went to IE8 with Safari 5, Chrome 10, and Firefox 4 coming in third. The report also gives the percentages attained by each browser at blocking malware. Both IE9 and IE8 were in the 90% or above area. Internet...

An online security firm says hackers are putting renewed efforts into breaching web email accounts One is based on phishing, the other on the MHTML procol. Read Full Story: New Email Scams Stealthier Than Ever: Report / Infopackets.com

From many searches and many videos,i found fake antiviruses infecting PC:mad:,Beware of:Antivirus 360,System security,Windows police,Windows XP police.And many more,they block every page at internet,they say clean files as viruses.Don't download any weird thing that you don't know...

Yesterday I was browsing the web on Yahoo search like I always do. And I was searching for a well known social web hosting forum.That I was visiting two weeks ago and had no problems getting onto that site then. I will not tell you the link as I do not want anyone else to click on it, as it is...

By Tim Conneally, Betanews The Lenovo OEM key that leaked earlier this week and allowed Windows 7 Ultimate to be cracked is being blacklisted, according to a blog post last night from Alex Kochis, Director of Genuine Windows at Microsoft. Kochis says, "Yesterday we were alerted to reports of a...