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Hackers target Indian Bank : Steal $13.5 Million across 3 days

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Banks remain a favorite target of cyber criminal activities. Use of internet, virtualization and digitization has eased our business and dealing with money. On the other hand it has also escalated cyber crime activities. In order to ameliorate the performance of financial transactions such as cash withdrawals, deposits, fetching account information, transfer funds etc the idea of cash machine was proposed in 1967. Since then these cash machines known as ATMs (Automated teller Machines) are widely used and besides offering convenience to the customers, they have also proven beneficial in reducing the workload of bank’s staff. With the growing cyber crime activities, undertaking precautions and regularly updating cyber preparedness and defence mechanism is important. However a large number of institutions stir up only post an incident that causes financial misappropriation or loss of reputation. Recently Cosmos Bank, India’s second largest cooperative bank suffered a breach on i...

LabCorp, US’ Biggest Testing Laboratories suffers major cyber security breach

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Healthcare organizations are becoming the targets of hackers now days due to highly sensitive data they deal with. The gathered data is worth minting money by selling it online rather than extorting users by stealing their email- password combos. Labcorp (Laboratory Corporation of America) , a leading global life sciences company and the largest clinical laboratories suffered one such major cyber security breach over the weekend! The firm headquartered in Burlington, North Carolina, runs large network of labs and health care centers across the world and provides diagnostic, drug development and other health care services to more than 115 million patients every year. The annual turnover of the company is estimated to be more than $10 billion. Labcorp, a fortune 500 company, is known to deliver world class forensic, genetic- specialized test facilities, diagnostic solutions performing routine tests; the most common tests being blood tests, HIV tests and urine analysis. ...

How to remove GoCloudy Virus Browser Hijacker from the system?

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What is GoCloudy Redirect Virus? GoCloudy Redirect Virus is a malware that is categorized as a  browser hijacker . This is a potentially unwanted program (PuP) that infiltrates the system without user knowledge. It installs into the web browser and alters the settings according to its requirements. It adds its own home page and new tab in the web browser. It starts displaying ads in the web browser during the browsing sessions of the user. These ads contain the attribute ‘Ads By GoCloudy’ or ‘Powered By GoCloudy’ Gocloudy Redirect Virus is a computer threat that redirects the user to different web pages. These suspicious URLs can contain malicious links which might end up downloading more malware into the user’s system. GoCloudy Redirect Virus – Threat behavior GoCloudy Redirect Virus infiltrates into the system by associating with third party software. When a user downloads any third party software and installs the software without going through the Custom/Adva...