Tag: Malware

Valve removes Steam game that contained malware

Valve removed a game from its Steam video game platform and store because it contained malware, according to media reports. In its notice...

Apple and Google take down malicious mobile apps from their app stores

Apple and Google have pulled as many as 20 apps from their respective app stores after security researchers found the apps were carrying...

Hackers are hijacking WordPress sites to push Windows and Mac malware

Hackers are exploiting outdated versions of WordPress and plugins to alter thousands of websites in an attempt to trick visitors to download and...

FBI erases China-sponsored malware from thousands of U.S. computers

Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Federal authorities announced Tuesday that they have erased Chinese malware from thousands of computers across the United States.The malware,...

Serbian police used Cellebrite to unlock, then plant spyware, on a journalist’s phone

This year, a Serbian journalist and an activist had their phones hacked by local authorities using a cellphone-unlocking device made by forensic tool...

Russian government spies targeted Ukraine using tools developed by cybercriminals

A Russian-government backed hacking group targeted Ukraine’s military using tools and infrastructure developed by cybercriminals, according to new research. On Wednesday, Microsoft published a...