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VPNFilter router malware – what to do? [VIDEO]
Learn how to deal with the VPNFilter malware currently plaguing 500,000 home routers worldwide.
VPNFilter – is a malware timebomb lurking on your router?
A Cisco paper reports on zombie malware that has apparently infected more than 500,000 home routers.
Remote code execution bug found in GPON routers, but how bad is it really?
An anonymous researcher recently disclosed two vulnerabilities in several older models of Dasan-made GPON routers.
It’s not CLOUD computing, it’s CLOWN computing! [Chet Chat Podcast 219]
Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin as they dissect the latest computer security news in their witty but informative way.
Would you put your kids on Facebook? 60 Second Security
Watch the latest episode of our weekly computer security video – it only takes a minute!
Dridex botnet taken down, multi-million bank fraud suspect arrested
Andrey Ghinkul, aka Smilex, is alleged to have stolen millions, including $990,000 from a school in Pennsylvania, with a bank fraud botnet.
Jail for Russian man who distributed Citadel banking malware to thousands
Dimitry Belorossov infected 7000 computers with the notorious Citadel banking malware, which he used to steal banking credentials.
Teen nabbed after attacks on UK government and FBI sites
His lawyers claim that their client was only on the “periphery” of the conspiracy, but that didn’t stop him from boasting about it.
Hacker pleads guilty in Facebook malware and spam scheme
The cybercrook allegedly used a “Facebook Spreader” malware to infect victims via booby-trapped links in Facebook chat messages.