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Tech support scams from call centers in India have long been a nuisance to Windows users. The fraudsters are currently particularly active, as demonstrated by internal numbers from G DATA.

The game Abstractism prides itself with minimalistic graphics and limited functionality - but leads to even more work for computers. The reason: In the background, crypto currencies are mined on and the players are ripped off.

We currently see an uptick of phishing emails which aim to trick unsuspecting victims into giving up personal data. Two of those mails show that scammers never seem to grow tired of cooking up new stories.

Wordpress is a popular tool for creating web pages. Numerous extensions make your own programming skills superfluous. However, one should be careful when choosing its extensions.

International researchers have discovered two severe vulnerabilities in the design of many recent CPUs. The vulnerabilities exist in CPUs from most major vendors, including Intel and AMD, and have been lingering there for over a decade. Microsoft has released an update which is also compatible with…

On Monday, reports emerged about the encryption of WiFi networks being susceptible to attacks. A design flaw in the WPA2 encryption allows the reuse of certain cryptographic keys instead of blocking it. The Belgian research team dubbed the attack “KRACK”.

Security researchers found out that that one version of the popular system tuning application "CCleaner" was infected with malware. We take a brief look at this case as well as several other cases from the past.

For a long time, gaming was just considered “a bit of a laugh” or “something for the kids”. Unsurprisingly, the security aspect did not receive a lot of attention – it just wasn’t seen as a problem or particularly relevant. But today’s gamers are not just two players sitting side by side as a dot…

For the past few weeks, headlines have been awash with reports about ransomware and other disruptive malware. Since malware in a worry for many people, scammers naturally try to profit off this trend. We had our own Tim Berghoff pose as a victim. Read his full report here.

The Petya ransomware, about which the first reports were published in the G DATA blog, occasionally rears its head with some new features (last time as "GoldenEye"). This time is no different - except that this is the first time that Petya uses an exploit from the arsenal of an intelligence agency.…