Researcher releases Free Ransomware Detection Tool for Mac OS X Users

In Brief:
Introducing RansomWhere, a free generic ransomware detection tool for Mac OS X users that can identify ransomware-like behavior by continually monitoring the file-system for the creation of encrypted files by suspicious processes.

This ransomware detection tool helps to block the suspicious processes and waits for the user to decide whether to allow or stop the process.

Apple's Mac OS X Still Open to Malware, Thanks Gatekeeper

Apple Mac Computers are considered to be much safer than Windows computers at keeping out the viruses and malware, but the new Exploit discovered by researchers again proves it indeed quite false.



Last year, The Hacker News reported a deadly simple exploit that completely bypassed one of the core security features in Mac OS X known as Gatekeeper.



Apple released a patch in November, but

'Ridiculous' Bug in Popular Antivirus Allows Hackers to Steal all Your Passwords

If you have installed Trend Micro's Antivirus on your Windows computer, then Beware.



Your computer can be remotely hijacked, or infected with any malware by even through a website – Thanks to a critical vulnerability in Trend Micro Security Software.



The Popular antivirus maker and security firm Trend Micro has released an emergency patch to fix critical flaws in its anti-virus product

Beebone Botnet Taken Down By International Cybercrime Taskforce

U.S. and European law enforcement agencies have shut down a highly sophisticated piece of the botnet that had infected more than 12,000 computers worldwide, allowing hackers to steal victims’ banking information and other sensitive data.



The law enforcement agencies from the United States, United Kingdom and the European Union conducted a joint operation to get rid of the botnet across the

Lenovo Admits and Released an Automatic Superfish Removal Tool

The computer giant Lenovo has released a tool to remove the dangerous "SuperFish" adware program that the company had pre-installed onto many of its consumer-grade Lenovo laptops sold before January 2015.
The Superfish removal tool comes few days after the story broke about the nasty Superfish malware that has capability to sneakily intercept and decrypt HTTPS connections, tamper with pages in