We found a new piece of mobile malware, Android/Trojan.Pawost, that’s using Google Talk to make malicious calls. As soon as the malicious app is opened, a blank Google Talk iconRead More →
Two mobile variants of Triada and Horde malware have been spotted in the wild by Check Point Software Technologies researchers who warn the latest samples have adopted dangerous new techniques includingRead More →
A new EDA2 ransomware was discovered by Michael Gillespie called Ded Cryptor. This ransomware has been around for quite a while and targets both Russian and English speaking victims. When installed, the victimsRead More →
Intel x86 CPUs Come with a Secret Backdoor That Nobody Can Touch or Disable. Hardware security expert Damien Zammit says that recent Intel x86 CPUs come with a secret subsystemRead More →
Sysadmins should disable OLE object execution. Malware coders have found a macro-like infection method that abuses the Microsoft Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) system to trick users into running malicious scripts.Read More →
Over the last two years, deep in the slums of the Internet, a different kind of underground market has flourished. The short, cryptic name perhaps doesn’t say much about it:Read More →
Using multiple devices that run on one platform makes life easier for a lot of people. However, if a malware affects one of these devices, the said malware may eventuallyRead More →
A new ransomware was discovered by security researchers@JAMES_MHT and @benkow_ called RAA that is made 100% from JavaScript. In the past we had seen a ransomware called Ransom32 that was created using NodeJS andRead More →
One piece of advice that often appears in closed message boards used by Russian cybercriminals is “Don’t work with RU”. This is a kind of instruction given by more experiencedRead More →
The Bolek banking Trojan is one of the successors of the notorious Carberp Trojan that targets both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows systems. When the source code of the Carberp Trojan wasRead More →
