With Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the holiday spending season has finally begun, and many retailers are offering bargains on consumer electronics. In particular, big names retailers like Best Buy, Walmart, Target, Kmart, Kohl’s, and Staples offer advantageous deals on their Android tablets which might be however unsafe from a security standpoint.

Symantec has found an advanced malicious software application that appears to have been used for spying and collecting data across the globe. Named Backdoor.Regin, or simply Regin, the software is essentially a very powerful Trojan Horse that appears to have been circulating since 2008. It has been hitting government agencies, internet providers, telecom companies, airlines, industrial entities, research institutes, energy companies, and individual systems with impunity, using sophisticated encryption and targeting systems to spy on targets. It is speculated that most infections came from computers visiting "spoofed versions of well-known websites," says Symantec, though one case confirms Yahoo! Messenger was also involved.

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In one our previous articles (Click here to know more), we introduced you to CryptoWall a malicious virus also known as ransomware, which “ransoms” and extorts money from innocent victims by forcing them to pay for a private key to decrypt the encrypted files on computers. Users of Windows 8, 7, Vista and XP can easily get infected with CryptoWall virus.