F-Secure report details “The Dukes” malware family and its Russian connections. For the past seven years, a cyberespionage group operating out of Russia—and apparently at the behest of the RussianRead More →
As researchers expected it would, CoreBot, the credential-stealing malware that surfaced last month, has added a bevy of new capabilities and reinvented itself as a robust banking Trojan. Researchers saidRead More →
A new ATM malware has hit the streets and it’s called Suceful. This new malware seems to have been created in August 2015, and it is unclear if it is still underRead More →
Hackers linked to known North Korean attack points and methods exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the Hangul Word Processor (HWP), widely deployed in the offices of the South Korean government.Read More →
It didn’t take long for hackers to take advantage of the malware’s bolt-on structure and transform it into something dangerous. The modular CoreBot malware has risen in sophistication almost overnightRead More →
Infected owners must choose between paying $500 and performing factory reset. Malicious apps that disable Android phones until owners pay a hefty ransom are growing increasingly malevolent and sophisticated asRead More →
The Android.Trojan.MKero.A malware is making a comeback in Androidland, and this time around, hackers found a method to bundle it with legitimate apps, capable of bypassing Google’s Bouncer app scanningRead More →
Russia’s Pawn Storm group uses a malware dropper based on the leaked Carberp source code. A group of hackers that target military and government organizations has recently borrowed code fromRead More →
Crooks can thrive by ‘living off the land’ rather than forging elaborate schemes. Half of all breaches Dell’s SecureWorks outfit has responded to over the last year have been aRead More →
Heimdal Security researchers have observed a new ransomware campaign that utilizes the Neutrino exploit kit to deliver Teslacrypt ransomware to victims via websites running older version of the WordPress CMS.Read More →
G DATA security experts published their latest research in which they’ve analyzed top Chinese Android smartphone models and found that a large number of them ship with pre-installed malware andRead More →
Online daters risk being held to ransom in possible cyber attack on Match.com Match.com has suspended advertising on its UK site whilst investigating amalware issue that put singles looking for loveRead More →
During the course of our daily malware hunt, we came across a new mobile ransomware variant that leverages pornography to lure victims into downloading and installing it. We’d previously bloggedRead More →
New variants of the notorious Carbanak Trojan have surfaced in Europe and the United States, and researchers say that the malware now has its own proprietary communications protocol and the samplesRead More →
A new variant of mobile ransomware that encrypts the content of Android smartphones is putting a new spin on both how it communicates with its masters and how it spursRead More →
Ransomware, the biggest pain that is causing many PC and laptop completely encrypted. If you don’t have money or brains, you cannot survive. It encrypts your important data, it canRead More →
Fears that malware is hiding in people’s graphics chipsets may be overclocked, according to Intel Security. Earlier this year, researchers from the self-styled “Team JellyFish” released a proof-of-concept software nastyRead More →
A brand-new advanced banking Trojan discovered in the wild has been named “Shifu” by IBM Security X-Force, after the Japanese word for thief. The malware appears to have been activeRead More →
