Here is the weekly roundup :
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Dreaded Ransomware Surfaces Again as Cryptowall 4.0
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A new variant of the notorious CryptoWall strain has now surfaced after security researchers discovered new features with the latest version of the ransomware now dubbed CryptoWall 4.0.
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Poorly Coded Ransomware Doesn’t Decrypt Files after Ransom Payment
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A poorly written malware strain of the ‘Power Worm’ ransomware family has been discovered to implement AES encryption to lock a victim’s files and carelessly proceeds to lose the key. This leads to a circumstance where a victim could ostensibly pay a ransom and yet, the files remain unrecoverable due to the loss of the encryption key.
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How to Recover Files by Removing the CryptoLocker Ransomware
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The CryptoLocker ransomware can cause quite a havoc in anyone's digital world. Luckily, There are a few ways to get your files back without having to pay the high ransom.
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2015: The Most Prolific Year for OS X Malware Ever
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2015 is a year that will be remembered by Apple’s software and security engineers. This is the most prolific year for OS X Malware in history. There was five times more malware in 2015 than all the malware samples discovered during the previous five years. Combined.
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Apple Boots Popular iOS App after Malware Found
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A popular Instagram client – ‘InstaAgent’ was pulled from the Apple store by the tech giant after the application was found to ‘harvest’ account user names and passwords.
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100 Million Android Devices at Risk Due to Baidu SDK Vulnerability
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A software development kit (SDK) by popular Chinese search engine Baidu has a function that potentially grants backdoor-like access to an end-user’s device. This exploit could serve to compromise 100 million Android users.
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Kaspersky & Law Enforcement Put an End to Ransomware Variant
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Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky has announced that all malware authors behind the Coinvault and Bitcryptor ransomware are behind bars with the keys to decrypting infected victims’ computers now freely available for end-users.
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Interesting Reading From Around the Web:
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'Armada' Extortionist Hackers Bulldoze 'Secure' Email Services But Pay Some Bitcoin Back
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The last four days have seen at least four private email providers taken offline by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, where servers are overwhelmed with maliciously-generated traffic. All are being targeted by a strange crew called the Armada Collective.
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Ransomware Now Gunning for Your Web Sites
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One of the more common and destructive computer crimes to emerge over the past few years involves ransomware — malicious code that quietly scrambles all of the infected user’s documents and files with very strong encryption. Now it appears fraudsters are developing ransomware that does the same but for Web sites — essentially holding the site’s files, pages and images for ransom.
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Scam Threatens 800 Million Apple Accounts
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A new global phishing scam targeting the IDs, passwords and credit card information of potentially 800 million Apple ID accounts emerged, according to Clifton, N.J.-based cybersecurity firm Comodo Antispam Labs.
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Cybersecurity While Traveling
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