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Privacy Activists Target Google Over French ‘Spam’ Emails

Aug

2022

It is the latest in a long line of complaints filed by the activist group NOYB (None of Your Business), which has fought the tech giant for years on data privacy. The French data regulator CNIL has been among the most active in Europe, doling out huge fines against Google and Facebook in particular. The […]

WhatsApp For What? Spammers Bomb User Inboxes With Fake Adult-Themed Opportunities

Apr

2021

Spammers have laid down seemingly harmless traps for users in search of adult-themed fun over the Internet. In the last month, attackers bombarded thousands of inboxes with explicit spam emails claiming to provide hookups on WhatsApp, according to Bitdefender Antispam Lab’s latest telemetry. The perps spiced up the email header that mentions the name of […]

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Bart ransomware victims get free decryptor

Jul

2016

AVG malware analyst Jakub Kroustek has devised a decryptor for Bart ransomware, and the company has made it available for download (for free). This particular piece of malware was first spotted in late June, being delivered via spam emails sent out by the Necurs botnet – the botnet that’s responsible for the onslaught of Locky […]

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