This is the second advertising company this week, linked to active malware creation and distribution. An Israeli company named TargetingEdge is behind the recent wave of Mac adware detected as OSX.Pirrit,Read More →
The start of a series This blog entry is the first in a new series featuring reports from Check Point SandBlast Agent Forensics. The concept is quite simple: we runRead More →
Macs targeted with new Backdoor.MAC.Eleanor trojan.Security researchers from Bitdefender have discovered a new malware family that opens a backdoor via the Tor network on Mac OS X systems. The malware’sRead More →
Hi, everyone! In this article I will continue to publish my research of Lenovo ThinkPad’s firmware. Previously I shownhow to discover and exploit SMM callout vulnerabilities on example of SystemSmmAhciAspiLegacyRtRead More →
The malware economy is alive and well! And cyber criminals are making big money by using this business model. The re-emergence of Adwind RAT provides additional proof to support this.Read More →
A second US man has pleaded guilty to stealing intimate pictures of celebrities using a phishing scam. Edward Majerczyk, 28, who resides in Chicago and Orland Park, Illinois, was chargedRead More →
Yingmob supposedly controls over 85 million Android devices. A Chinese advertising company is responsible for two of the biggest waves of malware for both the Android and iOS ecosystems, a recentRead More →
Popular Android Keyboard App with 50 million downloads is spying on you. A popular Android keyboard app called Flash Keyboard was found by a UK-based cyber-security firm, Pentest to be askingRead More →
RansomNoteCleaner Windows app cleans up the ransom note spam left behind after removing a ransomware infection. Security researcher Michael Gillespie, one of the people responsible for creating several free ransomwareRead More →
Talos have observed a large uptick in the Zepto ransomware and have identified a method of distribution for the Zepto ransomware, Spam Email. Locky/Zepto continue to be well known ransomwareRead More →
