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A few years back, a tweak that turned on “God Mode” in Windows was uncovered. Now, malware authors are starting to use this mode to their advantage. For those who aren’t familiar with God Mode, here’s how it works. Instead of typing IDDQD at a command prompt, all you have to do is create a new folder and name it something like GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}. Double-click it, and you’ll see a folder with access to just about...

A new form of ransomware known as TrueCrypter has boldly designated Amazon gift cards as a viable option by which victims can pay their ransom fees. Bizarrely, however, victims need pay nothing at all - as simply pressing "Pay" without submitting any payment information results in encrypted files being automatically recovered. First detected by Jakub Kroustek, a reverse engineer and malware analyst at AVG, TrueCrypter is for the most part a run-of-the-mill ransomware sample. Lawrence...

Canadian gold-mining company Goldcorp has suffered a data breach of seemingly catastrophic proportions. On Tuesday, the attackers leaked a lot of sensitive internal data about the company and its employees, and have promised to leak more, including “14 months of company wide emails, emails containing some good old fashion corporate racism, sexism, and greed.” The first batch of stolen data – 14.8 GB in all – has been posted on a public paste site, and...

Wick Hill has sounded the alarm after one of its employees was unsuccessfully targeted by a phishing email posing as a court summons. A member of Wick Hill's team received an email claiming they must give evidence at a hearing involving the distributor. They were directed to an attachment claiming to contain a list of documents to bring. According to Verizon's 2016 Data Breach Investigations Report, some 30 per cent of phishing emails were opened last...

Online classifieds site Gumtree Australia has been hacked, with some account holders receiving an email alert informing them of the breach Friday afternoon. In the email sent to a number of users, Gumtree admits that attackers had infiltrated its system last weekend."We are writing to let you know that some of your Gumtree account information was compromised in a security attack last weekend," Gumtree said in the email. "The attackers accessed your email address." In...

ISIS-linked hackers have targeted about 3,000 ordinary New Yorkers in a cyberattack, posting their personal information online and announcing, "We want them #Dead," the I-Team has learned. One of the victims, an 88-year-old man named Art -- whose last name is being withheld for privacy concerns -- spoke with the I-Team exclusively Thursday, telling of how the FBI visited and told him that his name was on the list posted Sunday on the private channel of...

On Thursday, the US Supreme Court approved a change to Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. It sounds innocuous, but the effects will be felt around the world. Under today's rules, US cops and FBI agents need to know where a computer is before they can get a warrant to directly hack the machine – because they have to ensure the judge and court they approach for the warrant has jurisdiction over the...

LIFEBOAT, a fan site for pickaxe and go game Minecraft, has been hit by hackers and mined for seven million user account details. This news comes via Troy Hunt of 'Have I been pwned' and a report on theMotherboard website. Hunt has added the database information to his website, which means that worried punters can check to see whether they are affected. He confirmed the validity of the leak in an email to Motherboard. "The data was provided to...

Facebook's platform and security certificates are being used against it in phishing campaigns designed to dupe users into handing over their account credentials. Cybercriminals are abusing the Facebook application platform to carry out phishing campaigns against users which appear legitimate thanks to the fraudulent use of Facebook's own Transport Layer Security (TLS) security certificates, a protocol used to help keep domains and user communication secure. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: ZDNet  

Just before five Democratic Primary elections in five states, candidate Facebook groups supporting Bernie Sanders were taken down from the social media network as those pages were flooded with pornographic images in what appears to be a cyber attack, for which his rival Hillary Clinton's supporters were blamed. The Facebook pages, some with more than 100,000 members, were abruptly removed for a few hours before they managed to recover their accounts early Tuesday, the day...