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The worst alliance of Ransomware and the CryptoMiner family in a spread spree, early January 2019. Malware Spam or MalSpam is the term used to designate malware that is delivered via email messages. Malicious spam (MalSpam) using zipped JavaScript (.js) files as email attachments–this is a well-established tactic used by cybercriminals to distribute malware. The […]
Researchers discovered 2 Malicious Android apps from Google Play Store that drops Anubis banking malware with highly obfustication techniques. The malicious apps posed as a legitimate tool with the name of Currency Converter and BatterySaverMobi and also attackers posted a fake review and boasted a score of 4.5 stars. Google Play store continuously flooding with […]
A chrome extension that still available on Chrome Web Store steals the payment card information from website forms visited by the users. The extension found to be active form February 2018, and the extenstion hidden from regular searches and will be available only through the link that attackers use to spread. Malicious extension named Reader […]
The application made online transactions executed in the background A team of network security experts detected a suspiciously high number of online transaction attempts from Alcatel-branded smartphones with Android operating system, so they decided to deep dig into the issue. During their investigation, experts discovered that a pre-installed application dedicated to weather forecasting extracts a […]
The company argues that its insurance does not cover damage caused “by Acts of war” According to network security and ethical hacking specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security, the American company Mondelez, dedicated to food, beverages and snacks, has decided to sue its insurance company by an estimated figure of $100M USD. According […]
An official Alcatel app, available through Google Play Store, has been found to be malware infected. It’s in a pre-installed weather app on Alcatel smartphones that the malware has been found. ZDNet reports, “A weather app that comes preinstalled on Alcatel smartphones contained malware that surreptitiously subscribed device owners to premium phone numbers behind their […]
The Goldluck malware has been around for more than a year. The malware basically gave hackers privileges which allowed them to send premium messages and earn money. Historically, Goldluck has been associated with popular classic game apps on Android. Today, security researchers revealed that “more than a dozen iPhone apps covertly communicating with a server […]
USB-IF announced USB Type-C Authentication Program to confirm the authencity of the USB device USB device, USB cable or USB charger. The Authentication program is the milestone for USB security protocol. The authentication program protect against non-compliant USB chargers and to mitigate risks from malicious firmware/hardware in USB devices attempting to exploit a USB connection. […]
The cloud computing services company suffered an attack with malicious software known as Ryuk that crippled its activities During the past Christmas Eve, the cloud service provider Data Resolution suffered a ransomware-based attack that disrupted the proper functioning of its systems, as reported by cybersecurity specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security. Data resolution […]
A new landscape study states that an upcoming mobile devices may comes with per-installed mobile malware along with malicious code in it. Per-installed malware means that the mobile device already installed with malicious code in system level that cannot be removed easily. There are two types of pre-installed malware that is based on the apps […]
Did malware disrupt newspaper deliveries in major US cities? Here’s what’s known about the incident so far and the leading suspect: Ryuk ransomware. Plus, advice on defending your organization against such attacks.
A disk wiping Shamoon malware performing destructive attack sample using an image of a burning US Dollar. This malware was uploaded in virus total from France on December 23, 2018, and it signed with a digital certificate from Baidu. Previous Attack destructive malware dubbed Shamoon V3 targeting European oil and gas company in the Middle […]
A new type of ransomware has been infecting servers over unsecured IPMI cards Cybersecurity and ethical hacking specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security have reported the emergence of a new ransomware variant. The malicious program, called JungleSec, has been spread on victim systems via Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) cards. According to reports, […]
A new campaign that delivers malicious PDF file that leads to download the file malicious APK file to the user’s device. Quick heal security researchers observed malicious PDF files sent to users as an attachement through phishing emails and attachements are des9igned in the way that tempts the users to open it. The PDF file […]
Security researchers discovered 15 malicious wallpaper apps that running Ad Fraud Scheme from Google play store and current these apps downloaded 222,200 Android users. Cybercriminals frequently using Play store to upload malicious apps that often delivering malware and committing ads frauds. Italy, Taiwan, the United States, Germany and Indonesia with the most infections records by […]
Most Destructive IoT malware Mirai now being delivered as Miori and its spreading via dangerous remote code execution exploits. Mirai malware has strong records of infecting poorly managing IoT devices and performing DDOS attacks on various platforms. In order to run the malware on cross-platform, it must be able to run on different architectures without […]
Several malware variants showed significant growth this year According to cybersecurity specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security, the amount of malicious software that affects Internet of Things (IoT) devices grew 72% in total this year. As for the malware in general, its presence increased by 200% with respect to the amount registered during […]
A new version of the destructive malware dubbed Shamoon V3 targeting European oil and gas company in Middle East and Asia. Shamoon malware was first identified in the year 2012, it targeted Saudi Arabia’s oil company internal network. Securitu researchers form Anomali Labs identified a new sample of the destructive malware Shamoon V3 that contains […]
Microsoft launches Malware Detection Competition with AI to test whether the participants AI malware detection models can accurately predict malware from the infected device. Since Malware evolution is continuously targeting organization and individuals with sophisticated techniques, Microsoft is challenging the AI community to develop techniques to predict if a machine vulnerable to hit with malware. In this […]
Researchers recently observed that cyber criminals using a weaponized memes in order to communicate with malware for various malicious operations. Memes are nowadays using for fast communication methods to spreading news which is now abused by cyber criminals to reach victims in a very effective way. Attackers using Steganography to embed the malicious payload inside of […]
Cyber Criminals from TA505 group started a new campaign that targeting retail, grocery, and restaurant chains by distributing weaponized MS word documents. TA505 group already had a record of distributing biggest threat campaign Dridex and widely distributing Locky ransomware that affected millions of computers around the world. Currently distributed tens of thousands of messages to various country […]