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Over 500 different Android apps that have been downloaded more than 100 million times from the official Google Play Store found to be infected with a malicious ad library that secretly distributes spyware to users and can perform dangerous operations. Since 90 per cent of Android apps is free to download from Google Play Store, advertising is a key revenue source for app developers. For this, they integrate Android SDK Ads library in their apps, which usually does not affect an app's core functionality. But security researchers at mobile security firm Lookout have  discovered  a software development kit (SDK), dubbed Igexin, that has been found delivering spyware on Android devices. Developed by a Chinese company to offer targeted advertising services to app developers, the rogue 'Igexin' advertising software was spotted in more than 500 apps on Google's official marketplace, most of which included: Games targeted at teens with as many as 100 million downlo...

Two of the three co-founders of The Pirate Bay— Fredrik Neij  and  Gottfrid Svartholm Warg —have been ordered by a Finnish court to pay record labels $477,800 in compensation for copyright infringement on the site. Last year in a similar case, Helsinki District Court in Finland ordered  Peter Sunde , the third co-founder of The Pirate Bay, to  pay nearly $395,000  (350,000 Euros) in damages to several major record labels, including Sony Music, Universal Music and Warner Music. However, Sunde did not pay any penalty yet, and instead, he later announced his plans to sue those record labels for defamation. The Pirate Bay  is still the world's most popular torrent website that has proven to be an elusive hub for illegal copyrighted contents, even after a  series of raids  and  shutdown of its multiple domains , including the primary .SE domain. All the three co-founders of The Pirate Bay were facing  criminal copyright infringeme...

If you came across any Facebook message with a video link sent by anyone, even your friend — just don’t click on it. Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab have  spotted  an ongoing cross-platform campaign on Facebook Messenger, where users receive a video link that redirects them to a fake website, luring them to install malicious software. Although it is still unclear how the malware spreads, researchers believe spammers are using compromised accounts, hijacked browsers, or clickjacking techniques to spread the malicious link. The attackers make use of social engineering to trick users into clicking the video link, which purports to be from one of their Facebook friends, with the message that reads "< your friend name > Video" followed by a bit.ly link, as shown. Here's How this Cross-Platform Malware Works: The URL redirects victims to a Google doc that displays a dynamically generated video thumbnail, like a playable movie, based on the sender...

"Ransomware" threat is on the rise, and cyber criminals are making millions of dollars by victimizing as many people as they can—with  WannaCry ,  NotPetya  and  LeakerLocker  being the ransomware threats that made headlines recently. What's BAD?  Hacker even started selling  ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) kits  in an attempt to spread this creepy threat more easily, so that even a non-tech user can create their own ransomware and distribute the threat to a wider audience. The WORSE —You could see a massive increase in the number of ransomware campaigns during the next several months—thanks to new Android apps available for anyone to download that let them quickly and easily create Android ransomware with their own devices. Security researchers at Antivirus firm Symantec have  spotted  some Android apps available on hacking forums and through advertisements on a social networking messaging service popular in China, which let ...

Photo Credit: Motorola/ United States Patent and Trademark Office HIGHLIGHTS Motorola has mentioned "shape memory polymer" in documents The screen will be used over the touchscreen display on the smartphone The handset will use heating effect to bring screen to original shape Lenovo's  Moto brand has previously provided smartphones that have 'shatterproof' displays but it seems like the company is now ready to take things a notch higher. Motorola Mobility has now filed a patent for a screen that is capable of healing itself after getting deformed, at least to certain degree, as per the documents that were spotted on the Patent and Trademark Office website of the US. As per the documents,  spotted  by The Verge, Motorola has  explained  that using a heating effect, the proposed smartphone will be able to repair the damage partially in the affected area after identifying the cracks on its own, as per the report. In its documents, Motorola h...

A former the United States Secret Service agent who  stole hundreds of thousands of dollars  worth of Bitcoins during an investigation into then-largest underground marketplace Silk Road has now pleaded guilty to money laundering. Shaun W. Bridges  is one of two former US undercover agents who  pleaded  guilty in 2015 to one count of money laundering and one count of obstruction and was sentenced in December same year to almost six years in prison for stealing over $800,000 in Bitcoin while investigating Silk Road. 35-years-old Bridges, who had been a Special Agent with the U.S. Secret Service for almost 6 years, along with his partner stole money from Silk Road accounts and framed someone else for the laundering, which even led the Silk Road founder  Ross Ulbricht  to plan a murder. Ulbricht was convicted in February 2015 of running the Silk Road underground black market and is now serving  life in prison sentence . According ...

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