Tag: Malware
For the last few years, rooting malware has been the biggest threat to Android users. These Trojans are difficult to detect, boast an array of capabilities, and have been very popular among cybercriminals. Their main goal is to show victims …
You already know to be wary of third-party Android apps, and even to watch your back in the Google Play Store. A flashlight app with only 12 reviews might be hiding some malware as well. But your hyper-vigilant download habits …
At the beginning of October 2017, we discovered new Android spyware with several features previously unseen in the wild. In the course of further research, we found a number of related samples that point to a long-term development process. We …
Since Stuxnet first targeted and destroyed uranium enrichment centrifuges in Iran last decade, the cybersecurity world has waited for the next step in that digital arms race. Another piece of malicious software designed specifically to enable the damage or destruction …
In early October, a story was published by the Wall Street Journal alleging Kaspersky Lab software was used to siphon classified data from an NSA employee’s home computer system. Given that Kaspersky Lab has been at the forefront of fighting …
We often talk about computer systems and information security in biological terms. Threats and defenses evolve, viruses run rampant, and machines learn by emulating the neural networks in our brains. Cybersecurity is an endless war between attackers and defenders, just …
With hundreds of millions of variants, Microsoft Windows malware doesn’t always modify the Windows registry database (i.e., registry)… but it usually does. Malware will modify the registry to make sure it can launch itself after a reboot, to better hide, …
In September 2017, we discovered a new targeted attack on financial institutions. Victims are mostly Russian banks but we also found infected organizations in Malaysia and Armenia. The attackers were using a known but still very effective technique for cybercriminals …
Last week we looked at reports from China and Israel about a new “Internet of Things” malware strain called “Reaper” that researchers said infected more than a million organizations by targeting newfound security weaknesses in countless Internet routers, security cameras …
Malware is widely available in an “as-a-service” model on the cybercriminal underground to anyone with criminal intent and a bit of money, says John Shier, senior security adviser at Sophos, who explains exactly how the model works in this in-depth …
Hardly a week goes by when I’m not cleaning up someone’s computer and detecting and eradicating malware. It’s not uncommon for me to find dozens of infections, each doing its best to pester the user into installing multiple bogus antivirus …
ATM systems appear to be very secure, but the money can be accessed fairly easily if you know what you are doing. Criminals are exploiting hardware and software vulnerabilities to interact with ATMs, meaning they need to be made more …
‘Cash Out’ Malware Attackers Increasingly Infect ATMs From Afar, Experts Warn Attackers are increasingly hacking into banks’ networks to gain access to the IT infrastructure connected to their ATMs, security experts warn. Attackers then push malware onto the ATMs that allows a …
Hundreds of thousands of computers getting penetrated by a corrupted version of an ultra-common piece of security software was never going to end well. But now it’s becoming clear exactly how bad the results of the recent CCleaner malware outbreak …
For one month, the installer for a widely used, free Windows utility called CCleaner also installed a malicious payload that was designed to allow attackers to push additional malware onto infected PCs. The alert over the software flaw was publicly …
Daniel Kaye Charged With DDoS, Blackmail Against Lloyds and Barclays Banks Admitted Mirai malware mastermind Daniel Kaye, 29, has been extradited from Germany to the United Kingdom, where he faces charges that he launched cyberattacks against two of Britain’s biggest …
A half dozen technology and security companies — some of them competitors — issued the exact same press release today. This unusual level of cross-industry collaboration caps a successful effort to dismantle ‘WireX,’ an extraordinary new crime machine comprising tens of thousands of …
Malware targeting the Mac operating system has seen a significant growth in the first half of this hear, according to security firm Malwarebytes Mac users saw more malware in the second quarter of this year than they saw in all of …
Department of Homeland Security, Vendor Issue Warnings About Cyber Flaws The Department of Homeland Security has issued an alert warning about cyber vulnerabilities in certain Siemens medical imaging products running Windows 7 that could allow hackers to “remotely execute arbitrary …
Software development relies heavily on trust, especially when it comes to open source components. JavaScript developers recently got a reminder just how fragile the trust model is with the news that 39 malicious packages were removed from npm, the Node.js …
