September’s edition of cybersecurity news headlines reports on Google’s ban of stalkerware apps on the Play Store, ransomware possibly contributing to a woman’s death after hospital in Germany is infected, and a federal judge blocking TikTok’s ban in the US.…
What is Trojan Spyware Alert scam
Trojan Spyware Alert scam is a tech-support scam that claims a Trojan is installed on your computer and you need to call the shown phone number to get technical support. The reason this and similar scams are called tech-support scams is because they display phone numbers that connect to professional scammers who pretend to be legitimate…
Cybersecurity news headlines for August 1-31 2020
US President Trump has signed an executive order banning viral app TikTok; Microsoft, Walmart and Oracle are trying to buy TikTok’s US operations; and TikTok has sued the US government in response to the ban. Former Uber CSO is being charged for covering up Uber’s 2016 data breach incident. And a hacking group attempted…
In July’s edition of cybersecurity news headlines, we primarily report on one of the biggest cybersecurity incidents of the year – the Twitter hack. We also discuss CouchSurfing suffering a data breach that exposed information of 17 million users, and countries considering following India’s example of banning viral video sharing app TikTok.…
Microsoft’s Windows Defender (aka Microsoft Defender) is currently flagging CCleaner’s free version as a potentially unwanted application (PUA).
Popular system optimization tool CCleaner, developed by Piriform and initially released 16 years ago, is now owned by anti-virus vendor Avast. It is the go-to tool for users looking to delete unwanted files, programs and junk, and fix registry problems But it appears…
After more than five months of inactivity, the Emotet botnet is back in action and is now distributing the QakBot (QBot) banking trojan. Emotet is known as one of the most notorious and most active cyber crime operations. Emotet first emerged in 2014 as a banking trojan that targeted banking credentials but has since evolved into a botnet that allows…
What is Searchmarquis.com
Searchmarquis.com is a highly questionable website that may be set as your homepage if your computer is infected with a browser hijacker. Browser hijackers are pretty harmless infections that don’t harm the computer directly. What they do is they change browser’s settings and set their promoted sites as homepages. In this case, it’s Searchmarquis.com that will load every…
What is COM surrogate
COM surrogate or dllhost.exe are processes part of the Windows operating system. If you open your Task Manager, you will likely see multiple COM surrogate processes running. This is completely normal. COM actually stands for Component Object Model, and COM object are plugged into other applications in order to extend them. It’s often used to create thumbnail…