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  An Urgent warning has gone viral on social media recently, urging you to check your privacy settings after WhatsApp reportedly secret update.  What's the truth behind this latest warning? Just days after its controversial update to facilitate data sharing with Facebook, social media is ablaze with messages suggesting the platform has suddenly updated your group privacy settings and you need to urgently change them back. You can change your settings to avoid anyone one adding you to a group without having them on your contact Follow the steps below: Go to WhatsApp: Go into Settings Go to Account Go to Privacy Go to Groups Change from (Everyone) to (My Contacts)

  Thursday - Microsoft warned of a "massive email campaign" that's pushing a Java-based STRRAT malware to steal confidential data from infected systems while disguising itself as a ransomware infection. "This RAT is infamous for its ransomware-like behavior of appending the file name extension .crimson to files without actually encrypting them," the Microsoft Security Intelligence team  said  in a series of tweets. The new wave of attacks, which the company spotted last week, commences with spam emails sent from compromised email accounts with "Outgoing Payments" in the subject line, luring the recipients into opening malicious PDF documents that claim to be remittances, but in reality, connect to a rogue domain to download the STRRAT malware. Besides establishing connections to a command-and-control server during execution, the malware comes with a range of features that allow it to collect browser passwords, log keystrokes, and run remote commands an...