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Security Stop-Press : Trojanized Gaming Apps Spreading Social Media-Hijacking Malware

Security Malware Ransomware

Cybersecurity company ‘Check Point’ has warned that malware dubbed “Electron Bot” that can take control of social media accounts is being spread via trojanized gaming apps, mostly from the Microsoft Store. So far, the malware is reported to have infected 5,000+ Windows machines in Sweden, Bulgaria, Russia, Bermuda, and Spain. Games publishers reported to have pushed the trojanized apps…

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Tech Insight : Why Solid Black Bars May Be Best For Redacted Text

Why Solid Black Bars May Be Best For Redacted Text

In this insight, we look at how to best to avoid redacted text from being ‘unredacted’ by certain software tools, and we look at what researchers advise based on recent experiments.  The Problem  For businesses and organisations, the increased need for data sharing and/or making some data public can mean that certain (sensitive) parts of documents need to be…

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Security Stop Press : Backdoors Discovered In Dozens Of WordPress Themes And Plugins

Security Stop Press : Backdoors Discovered In Dozens Of WordPress Themes And Plugins

It has been reported that 40 themes and 53 plugins belonging to AccessPress Themes, a Nepal-based company were backdoored with malicious code in the first half of September 2021. It is believed that the infected extensions gave attackers full access to sites, and that access also appears to have been sold to operators of spam campaigns. Site owners who…

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