Malwarebytes, a global leader in online protection, shared new research showcasing a dramatic uptick in threats targeting Android users as the mobile channel becomes a prime vector for financial scams ...

If you are constantly seeing popups, advertisements on sites where their shouldn't be, or tech support scams then you are most likely infected with Adware. One of the biggest problems facing computers ...

Experts say you can’t stop hackers, but you can arm yourself well against any cyber criminal looking to use your information for profit. (Photo: Getty) Remember when you could surf the web without ...

The latest version of a Mac Trojan called UpdateAgent, aka WizardUpdate, provides fresh evidence of the growing effort that some threat actors are putting into targeting Apple technologies. The ...

When we cover dozens of stories each year about Mac related security issues and malware discovered in the wild, it’s hard to imagine that the misconception that “Macs don’t get viruses” still exists.

The Updatechecker.exe Trojan is a package of malware programs that include the Taskhostw.exe miner and an adware component that displays advertisements every 60 minutes. When installed, ...

Antivirus software developer Malwarebytes today shared its State of Malware Report for 2020 [PDF], which suggests that Mac malware is growing much more common. For the first time ever, Macs outpaced ...

Antivirus software developer Malwarebytes today shared its 2021 State of Malware Report, which found that malware threat detections on Macs fell a total of 38 percent in 2020. In 2019 Malwarebytes ...

I take security and privacy pretty seriously. After all, I am the Security Editor for MakeUseOf, so it stands to reason I'm ...

The threat of malware has increased for Mac users in a short space of time, a report from Malwarebytes claims, with detected threats up by more than 60% from the fourth quarter of 2018 to the first ...

Apple prides itself on prioritizing user security and privacy. It counts the iOS and Mac App Stores, where customers can download an array of trusted, vetted software, as cornerstones of that ...

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