Category: Security News

Feb 26

How to Fix ACPI_BIOS_ERROR in Windows 10 (Recommended Solution)

Easy Steps to Get Rid of ACPI_BIOS_ERROR ACPI_BIOS_ERROR in Windows 10 cause serious problem while you working on computer. You may see this error message suddenly appear on your computer screen that stops your all running application and all the process as well. This error message is generally appears in blue screen window and open BIOS of your of your computer. Symptoms of ACPI_BIOS_ERROR: Suddenly crashing of the active program window with “ACPI_BIOS_ERROR”. ACPI_BIOS_ERROR in Windows 10 Frequently crashing of PC or laptop with Error 0xA5 when executing the same program. Windows gets slow and take more time to execute any task. A”STOP Error 0xA5: ACPI_BIOS_ERROR” is appeared. “The ACPI_BIOS_ERROR bug check has a value of 0x000000A5. This bug check indicates that the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) BIOS of the computer is not fully compliant with the ACPI specification.” is appeared. This error alert message can come through Read more

Feb 21

How to Fix 0xc00007b Error (PC game error on Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10)

Have you got 0xc00007b error message while you open legitimate application running in your System. If you are unable to execute your application correctly and all the time you got an error message on your computer screen, then you need to get rid of this error quickly. This error is irritating too much and you can’t able to work comfortably on your System like previous. This type of error is displayed on all the version of Windows like Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and Windows 10. In the alert window, there is some message like “The application was unable to start correctly (0xc00007b). Click ok to close application” on the screen. What are the reasons behind such type of error?

Feb 16

How to improve PC performance Windows 8

Microsoft Windows 8 is upgraded version of Windows 7. This new operating system has lots of features that improve the performance of your System. In very few times, it gets trust from many user and they use Windows 8 operating System comfortably. If you are Windows 8 user, then you should be careful while working on your computer. When you are using your computer roughly, then you got troubles. It might possible that after sometimes your PC may not work well and reason you get uninstall Windows 8 from your System. You should not do this. It is possible to improve your Windows 8 OS based computer with easy steps. Following changes in your computer makes faster the overall performance of Windows 8: You need to get remove the amount of start-up application The start-up apps are responsible to slow performance of your computer. It is automatic executed in your Read more

Feb 14

GandCrab RaaS is Available in Black Market of Russia

Ransomware as a service (Raas) has become a profession of many software developers in present time because of the profits hackers have grossed due to such infections. In the same link, GandCrab Ransomware has been exposed by Australian cyber-security investigators from LMNTRIX that was to be vended on the black market for unclear amount of money. Raas project is one of the most popular money making service among cyber crooks because even it’s an illegal way to make money, still, they have absolutely no threat of being identified. Numerous people have committed to merge this illicit occupation in order to generate millions of dollars without being recognized. They buy Ransomware by paying some amount of crypto-currency to the authors; get all the instructions on how to make use of the virus and then start the plunge. Talking about GandCrab Ransomware, it’s a deadly crypto-virus that generally intrudes the targeted device via malvertising Read more

Feb 14

Olympic Destroyer is complex data-wiping malware

Olympic Destroyer is recent malware that had damaged PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics computer network. It is developed by Cisco Talos programmer. Olympic Destroyer has been exposing before the Olympic game start that causes disrupting to television System and other operation during Open ceremony of Olympics games. Olympic destroyer is capable to misleading data recovery procedure and able to delete legitimate service of Windows. Windows OS based System unable to boot. Cisco researchers have updated the original Olympic Destroyer malware to new ones. The latest news related to Data-wiping algorithm is that it attempt to delete files sharing in network.  It is not dangerous for operating System, not delete legitimate files of Windows. It is able to delete all the files sharing in network that files can be very crucial to be shared to illegal ones or Olympic Destroyer. The biggest news related to Olympic Destroyer is that it uses self Read more

Nov 20

Hackers Using SEO to Alter Google Search Results and Promoting Banking Trojan

Malware authors are always looking for new and artistic ways to spread malware and they always impress the victims with their new techniques. The groups of cyber-attackers are now spreading the newly variant of Zeus Panda banking Trojan with an entirely different spreading technique. They are now using Black-Hat SEO technique instead of old-school distribution technique such as mal-advertising and spam campaigns. These cyber-cribbers are relying on network of hacker websites on which they put selected keywords in the new-page. Sometime, they even hide the particular keyword in the existing page. This is very effective because the victim will start noticing spam or hacked websites in the result page at the top. For example, if anybody searches for banking hours details during particular day, they will see spam and hacked websites on the top result. If you click on these links, the webpage will get redirected to hacked websites. This Read more

Sep 15

Backdoor found in WordPress Plug-in

WordPress is one of the most popular platforms to create dynamic websites. From past two and half months, a WordPress plug-in namely “Display Widgets” is installing backdoor to WordPress websites. According to the researches, this backdoor is present in version 2.6.1 to 2.6.3 which was released during 30th June to 2nd September. The official WordPress team has removed this plug-in from their repository. Display Widget Timeline The original Display Widget plug-in was developed by Stephanie Wells. With the help of this plug-ins, website owners can control which WordPress widget will be displayed on the website. Later, Stephanie Wells sold the open source version to a new developer. A month after that, the new owner released the first new version namely V2.6.0 on June 21. Just a day after, David Law, who is the author of another plug-in namely Display Widgets SEO Plus complained the wordpress.org team that V2.6.0 is violating Read more

Sep 08

Equifax Data Breach (Attck on 143 million users Detaills

Equifax is a very renowned company in US that provides its services in Finance and consumer credit reporting. Last night, the company faced a huge cyber-attack which steals details of more than 143 million customers. The stolen data is huge and they are very sensitive hence the users are really concerned. According to the Press-Release given by the company, the hackers cheated username, address, birth details, driver license number and so on. Additionally, they managed to access credit card details of more than 209,000 users and personal identifying number of additional 182,000 users. According to Equifax, the attackers also have details of Canadian and US users but they didn’t reveal their numbers. The security breach at such as huge magnitude is very rare and is extremely dangerous. They get access over the highly sensitive information and make fraudulent transaction from cheated credit cards, username and password. It is very easy Read more

Sep 06

MongoDB Ransom Attacks Infected 26,000 new Victims

Last week, MongoDB database saw new ransom attack by group of three new groups in which totally 26,000 servers got infected out of which a single group hijacked more than 22,000 servers. Way back in December 2016  to January 2017, similar MongoDB attacks occurred. The recent attacks have been detected by security researchers “Dylan Katz and Victor Gevers” and this is most probably the continuation of same attack. During those attacks, the cyber-criminals used to thoroughly scan the Internet in search for the open MongoDB database which has security vulnerabilities for external connections. They wiped out their contents and later demanded for high ransom amount. The data which cyber-criminals exposed were Test Systems but many companies got manipulated by this scam and agreed to pay the ransom money. Later, they realized that they have been scammed as the cyber-criminals never had their data. Newly MongoDB Hijack Discovered Security researchers have Read more

Aug 31

Sarahah App Steals Users Contact (Compromises Privacy)

Sarahah App has gained a lot of popularity right after it was launched on Google Play and iOS. It allows user to comment or message to other users without disclosing their identity. Many of the users find it very interesting apps because according to them, they get honest review and feedback from other users who could be their friend, relatives or anonymously anybody. Because of this honest sharing opinion feature, it is also popular as “Honest App”. However, it claims its 18 million users to be honest with their comments and opinion however it developers are not truly honest to the users. Recently, all the users’ data were collected and stored in the Company’s serer for a while. This was a hidden activity and users were informed about this activity neither through the privacy-policy nor from the official app store page. The author of Sarahah App namely Zain-al-Abidin Tawfiq later Read more