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Over 45,000 Chinese websites have been under a barrage of attacks from miscreants looking to gain access to web servers, ZDNet has learned.

When it is about memes, people usually download them right away on their devices to share further. Posting memes on Facebook and Twitter has become something of a trend today. But, did you ever wonder you could also download malware with these memes? Researchers have discovered some malicious Twitter memes posted on an account that Twitter has since suspended.

Preying on an individuals’ desire to personalize their mobile phones, scammers infused at least 15 Android wallpaper apps to redirect phony ad click revenue, reported Trend Micro in a blog post.

The Google Play Store removed the mobile phone apps, which were downloaded more than 222,200 times while being available over a period of several months. Victims were spotted in Italy, Taiwan, the United States, Germany and Indonesia appeared to be the most infected, according to Trend

Security researchers said they’ve found a new kind of malware that takes its instructions from code hidden in memes posted to Twitter.

You have probably seen dank memes that really speak to you, but research shows that memes can also be made to speak to malware that has infected a computer. A piece of malware analyzed in a report published Friday by Trend Micro responds to executable commands embedded in images posted on Twitter.