American tech company Garmin has been hacked. The company’s systems are infected with the WastedLocker ransomware. Hackers responsible for the attack will unlock closed off files only after Garmin pays them an impressive ransom of ten million dollars. The situation is serious, as due to the virus the company’s taiwanese factories have all ceased to work; every minute generates more and more losses for Garmin.According to Bleeping Computer, Garmin has been hacked by the Evil Corp group. Evil Corp is an old hacking group from Russia, its history going back to 2007. They have ...

The app in question is VivaVideo, a free video editor by the chinese developer QuVideo Inc.. VPNpro researchers have taken a look at that app and soon found out that its installation requires a disturbing number of access authorizations, up to and including user’s localization and contact list. It was not long before VPVPro have found out that the app is infected with AndroRAT, malware whose purpose is to remote control Android OS devices.At the moment, VivaVideo’s apps are still available on Google Play Store, but that will probably not last. P.S. QuVideo is also available from ...

Spring is coming, and along with it warmer days. Almost all of us can hardly wait for the it, but there is one thing that preferes colder climates – our phones. These devices like to overheat from a number of causes, and high temperatures outside only help them in doing that:– overuse of the phone, like too long conversations or gaming sessions– keeping the phone in cramped spaces, e.g. the bottom of a stuffed bag– battery reshaping itself due to the usage of an incorrect chargerAnd we all know what happens when a phone overheats, right? If not, just recall the grand ...

So much has been said about mobile devices’ security that I do not have the heart to bore you with that same old shtick once again. Instead, I will get straight to the point; if you want to be as certain as possible that your phone is safe from e-harm, read this article and use my suggestions. Today’s article is about Android devices, but many of these tips, if not all, will count for other OS as well. This is what you should take care of:1. Turn off the automatic password typing. If you lose your phone and it ends up in someone else’s hands, they will have free access to ...

The unfortunate event took place on February 26th. Flight from New York to Bahama had to be aborted midair after a passenger’s powerbank spontaneously erupted in flames. The situation was handed by the plane’s staff and there was no fire but nevertheless the pilot has decided to emergency land the plane in Daytona Beach. Everything went well, no one got hurt and all the passengers and plane staff exited the plane in Daytona, presumably after cursing the head off the unfortunate powerbank owner.As of now we do not know whether or not that incident will end in more rigorous ...

Okay, perhaps ”suspect” is not the correct term. The phone in question belonged to a man responsible for shooting 3 and wounding 8 a couple weeks ago at the US Navy base. The request to unlock his phone has been sent by FBI General Counsel Dana Boente himself. Apple, though, states that it already shared ”all of the data” it possesses to the FBI.The suspect/perpetrator is Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, 21 years old Royal Saudi Air Force lieutenant. Alshamrani was in Pensacola to participate in their training excercises. His motivations are unknown, although a number of ...

Or at least trying to. Born in China and presumed to work for the chinese dictatorship hacker group APT20 has, over the course of the last few years, successfully performed series of cyber attacks. The group operated (operates?) in Brazil, Western Europe and USA. APT20’s targets were mainly the micro economy sector – small and medium ventures.Interestingly, APT20 has seemingly devised a way around the 2FA protection. It is believed that figured out a way to fool the mechanism responsible for checking the verification token’s genuineness.If you want to learn more about ...

85 apps have said goodbye to Play Store after yet another Google purge. This one, instigated by the Trend Micro security specialists, aimed to remove apps infested with some pretty nasty adware. Those applications, mainly video games and camera software, not only had 5 minutes long unskippable adds but were also difficult to locate and uninstall from the phone. ...

18 years old man has been apprehended in the Polish city of Lodz (£ód¼). He is being accused of maintaining a darknet (in short, darknet consists of websites that cannot be found by using a common browser) website containing pedophile and zoophile* material. In the man’s house, police have found hardware containing passwords to the website as well as certain amount of illegal video material. Interestingly, it is believed that the man has not received any financial compensation for his work. Nevertheless, for helping in maintaining and distributing the abovementioned materials, the man ...

Samsung laboratory in Russia (Russian-placed lab working on technology with the word ”fake” in its name? Hmm…) works on improving the so-called ”realistic neural talking heads” mechanism. This mechanism makes it possible to animate static pictures, and doing it so well that the fakes are difficult to recognise from real video records. The effects of Samsung’s deepfake tech can be seen in these GIFs – Samsung has managed to create very lifelike records. Those of you who are more curious about that process can look into this video, in which Samsung ...