NEWS & PRIVACY TIPS

Hi Guys, I hope you are well. I wanted to send you a little reminder to scan for the government spyware we added to our database last week. So far we have found and removed this from 32 devices worldwide (!) and this is only with a very small amount of scans...

Hi guys, I hope you are well. Researchers at Doctor Web have discovered adware and information-stealing malware on the Google Play Store, with at least five still available and over two million downloads between them. If you have been unlucky enough to have installed...

Hi Guys, I hope you are well. Adecco - 4,284,538 breached accountsIn March 2021, news broke of a massive data breach impacting millions of Adecco customers. The breach exposed over 4M unique email addresses as well as genders, dates of birth, marital statuses, phone...

Hi Guys, Researchers at Trend Micro have exposed six banking apps that promise to give users access to fast financial loans. Instead, they plant spyware on their victim's phones, allowing remote attackers to access phone contacts, text messages, photos, video, audio...

Hi Guys, Have you ever broken any of Instagram's policies? Are you about to get suspended? It is very easy to find out. Instagram now has an in-app policy violation center where you can check if you have broken any of their rules. The app will tell you if you haven't...

Hi Guys, Bruce Scheiner just posted a link to a great story about Joshua Schulte, the accused leaker of the WikiLeaks Vault 7 and Vault 8 C.I.A. data. It is a good read, and it gives you a rare look behind the 'curtain.' Did he leak all of the C.I.A.'s most sensitive...

Hi Guys, Google’s June security update for Android fixes over 40 high-severity vulnerabilities and a crtitcal zero-day vulnerability. Please update your device as soon as you can to avoid problems. Please note that it can take up to an hour for the update to complete....

Hi Guys, If you have been the victim of a Ransomware attack, please see if you can decrypt your data free of charge at the No More Ransom project. They have free decryption tools for hundreds of the world's top ransomware tools, and they add new decrypters regularly....

Hi Guys, We updated Incognito a few minutes ago to find and remove a nasty piece of malware that can sign victims up for expensive premium-rate services. Many of our users have been affected by this malware, so we wanted to get a fix out there as soon as possible....

Hi Guys, Security researchers from Kaspersky have discovered an extremely dangerous piece of spyware masquerading as a free virtual private networking app available for download on the Google Play store. The spyware itself is rumored to be the creation of the...