Like good old Microsoft Office Macros, Compiled HTML (CHM) Help files have been utilized by malware authors for more than a decade to sneak malicious downloader code into files makingRead More →
During the last week, Romanian authorities have arrested three individuals who are suspected of infecting computer systems by spreading the CTB-Locker (Curve-Tor-Bitcoin Locker) malware – a form of file-encrypting ransomware.Read More →
Kaspersky has found what they deem as a jack of all trades malicious app they call Trojan.AndroidOS.Loapi. Like the Trojan AsiaHitGroup we discovered last month on Google Play, this malware can do all the things—it’sRead More →
A strain of Android malware found lurking on third-party application stores is so packed full of nefarious capabilities it can cause physical damage to smartphones. Security experts from Moscow-based anti-virusRead More →
Ransomware attacks can cripple a business, leading to a rather sad trend in the industry.British companies are hoarding Bitcoin in order to pay off ransomware attacks capable of disrupting criticalRead More →
Mandiant recently responded to an incident at a critical infrastructure organization where an attacker deployed malware designed to manipulate industrial safety systems. The targeted systems provided emergency shutdown capability for industrialRead More →
Two years ago in October 2015 we published a blogpost about a popular malware that was being distributed from the Google Play Store. Over the next two years we detected several similarRead More →
Netskope Threat Research labs has detected new ransomware named Spider propagating in a mid-scale campaign. This ongoing campaign, identified on the 10th December, uses decoy Office documents which usually arriveRead More →
Another set of banking Trojans has found its way past Google Play’s security mechanisms, this time targeting a number of Polish banks. The malware managed to sneak into Google PlayRead More →
A Banking Trojan called DOWNAD has been discovered after 9 years that is capable of remotely inject malicious code into a server and also performing Dictionary Attack which is ConsideringRead More →
