VXers stuff evidence-purging malware in retailer stockings. Threat researchers are warning of two pieces of point of sales malware that have gone largely undetected during years of retail wrecking andRead More →
Distributed via Word files and the Angler EK. Cyber-crooks are diversifying their activities by including as many threats as possible inside their malware-delivery campaigns. One such example is a campaign detectedRead More →
One of the Internet’s oldest and crudest attacks experiences a resurgence. A number of sites have been hit by distributed denial-of-service attacks over the past week. Strong enough to knockRead More →
Recently, researchers from the Cheetah Mobile Security Lab have found a dangerous Trojan, dubbed Cloudsota, pre-installed on certain Android tablets. Tablets infected with this Trojan are still on the shelvesRead More →
Soccer, or rather football aficionados in the UK may have had their computers infected whilst browsing the Premier League’s official fantasy website fantasy.premierleague.com. A malicious advert displayed on the sportsRead More →
Recently, while researching attacks on targets in Thailand, Unit 42 discovered a tool that initially appeared to be a variant of the well-known PlugX RAT based on similar observed behaviorRead More →
CryptoWall 4.0 has been released that displays a redesigned ransom note, new filenames, and now encrypts a file’s name along with its data. We were alerted to this new variant by variousRead More →
Experts at Bitdefender have discovered a flaw in Linux Encryption Ransomware Linux.Encoder1 that exposes the decryption Key used to lock the files. Last week security experts at Russian antivirus firmRead More →
Coding mistakes in a malicious program that encrypts data mean anyone hit by the Power Worm virus will not be able to recover files, say security experts. Usually viruses knownRead More →
Fake jQuery injections have been popular among hackers since jQuery itself went mainstream and became one of the most widely adopted JavaScript libraries. Every now and then we write aboutRead More →
20,000 samples found impersonating apps from Twitter, Facebook, and others. Researchers have uncovered a new type of Android adware that’s virtually impossible to uninstall, exposes phones to potentially dangerous rootRead More →
Authorities in several European countries announced they have coordinated an operation to arrest criminals using the popular DroidJack RAT. Android RATs are becoming very popular in the criminal underground, a recentRead More →
Experts at Symantec have discovered a new variant of the Chikdos DDoS-Trojan that is targeting MySQL servers worldwide. There is a malware in the wild that abuses MySQL Servers forRead More →
Thirteen homes in Germany were raided as part of the operation – Image by Thinkstock Police have raided homes in five European countries as part of a malware investigation, according toRead More →
ESET researchers receive and analyze thousands of new malware samples every day. Earlier this year, one of them caught our attention because it was not an ordinary executable file, butRead More →
Does your Chrome browser seem a little “off”, but you can’t figure out why? Maybe it’s eFast. Here’s another reason to slow down when installing software, especially free software. ARead More →
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has stated that it’s completely fine to pay ransom to cyber criminals. If you are a fan of Hollywood movies you may be familiar withRead More →
Two weeks after authorities announced they had taken down the botnet behind the banking malware Dridex, new research suggests the threat is alive and well. Researchers with security company Invincea announced todayRead More →
