Today, we’ve been alerted about an ongoing spam campaign against Skype users. The majority of those affected are in India, Japan, and the Philippines. Below is what the message looksRead More →
Today, we have encountered a new threat that’s a blast from the past. The Petya Trojan (detected by Kaspersky Lab products as Trojan-Ransom.Win32.Petr) infects the MBR preventing normal system loading,Read More →
Compromised websites and spear-phishing emails used to infect targets with Daserf Trojan. A longstanding cyberespionage campaign has been targeting mainly Japanese organizations with its own custom-developed malware (Backdoor.Daserf). The group, known to SymantecRead More →
Built to harvest the banking credentials of victims, the virulent Dridex is now one of the most dangerous pieces of financial malware in circulation. Tidal waves of spam are fuellingRead More →
Nasty trojan found in the Android OS system loader. Some Phillips s307 Android smartphones come with a pre-installed trojan (Android.Cooee.1) that shows ads and animations on the user’s main screen, andRead More →
A mobile banking trojan just evolved, and while security researchers are quite impressed by the malware author’s ingenuity, us users aren’t that happy to find out that voice-based two-factor authenticationRead More →
Romanian police have acted to end a series of malware ATM attacks carried out in Germany, France, Norway, Sweden, Poland, and Romania. Alleged members of an international criminal group responsibleRead More →
Cybercriminals are using the friendly face of Facebook and Twitter to distribute banking trojans that are specifically targeting Brazilians. The attackers are targeting Brazilian Portuguese-speaking users and are using social engineeringtacticsRead More →
Attackers carry out SMS fraud via the infected phones. The Android/OpFake and the Android/Marry malware families, two banking trojans targeting mobile devices, have (improperly) stored their C&C servers inside Facebook Parse,Read More →
Why create your own rooting functions when someone else has already put the effort into doing the same thing Security researchers have detected a new trojan targeting Android devices, butRead More →
The trend of using adult-themed Android apps to deliver malware is ramping up, as Zscaler security researchers are warning about two new such threats that have recently appeared on theRead More →
This remote access trojan (RAT) has capabilities ranging from manipulating the registry to opening a reverse shell. From stealing credentials stored in browsers to accessing the victims webcam. Through theRead 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 →
Bank trojan twin pivots to smash supply chain biz. The formidable Dyreza and Dridex banking malware are back in renewed and rejigged macro-based campaigns that includes a shift by theRead More →
A trojan strand targeting Android devices has been found coming pre-installed inside the firmware of some Android smartphones by Dr.Web, a Russian-based antivirus vendor. The trojan, detected as Android.Backdoor.114.origin, wasRead More →
Symantec’s researchers have discovered a new version of the Kovter trojan, which now mimics the Poweliks malware and is able to live on your computer’s registry, without needing to beRead More →
We at ESET recently discovered an interesting stealth attack on Android users, an app that is a regular game but with one interesting addition: the application was bundled with anotherRead More →
New Android malware was discovered, able to steal money from online banking accounts, and hide SMS notifications coming to confirm financial transactions. This new malware detected by Dr.Web as theRead More →
A malicious spam campaign that’s been doling out zipped Javascript (.js) files remains an issue, the SANS Internet Storm Center warns. The campaign was spotted earlier this year, but BradRead 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 →
