Espionage platform with more than 50 modules was almost certainly state sponsored. Security experts have discovered a malware platform that’s so advanced in its design and execution that it could probably have been developed only with the active support of a nation state. The malware—known alternatively as “ProjectSauron” by researchers from Kaspersky Lab and “Remsec” by […]
A Russian organized cybercrime group known for hacking into banks and retailers appears to have breached hundreds of computer systems at software giant Oracle Corp., KrebsOnSecurity has learned. More alarmingly, the attackers have compromised a customer support portal for companies using Oracle’s MICROS point-of-sale credit card payment systems. Asked this weekend for comment on rumors of a large data breach […]
Researchers have discovered more fake Pokémon Go apps on Google Play Store putting security and privacy of Android users in danger! Since the time the game Pokémon Go was released in Australia, USA and New Zealand, it has become the apple of everyone’s eyes. Of course, Apple users are proudly and conveniently using it on their iOS systems, […]
Advances in software application development designed to protect us against malware evolve positively forward every day, yet the threat of cybercrime continues. But if we understand how ‘malware robots’ use the ‘thought processes’ inside their Artificial Intelligence (AI) robot brains, then surely security developers can protect us better. It’s a question of how smart the […]
EFF exposes threat group operating for Kazakhstan regime. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released a report today named Operation Manul that details attacks with malware on Kazakhstan’s top journalists and political activists, who have taken a stance against the current authoritarian regime. According to a team of EFF, First Look Media, and Amnesty International experts, […]
F-Secure researchers say parties involved in the South China Sea arbitration case were infected with the data-stealing NanHaiShu Trojan. Hackers have used targeted malware to steal data from some of the governments and private sector organisations involved in the dispute over territory and sovereignty in the South China Sea. Cybersecurity company F-Secure Labs uncovered the […]
Beware of fake Prisma photo editing app on Android store targeting users with phishing and malware scam! Prisma app for Android users was launched about a week ago, since then it has become one of the most used photo editing apps but with fame comes haters (just like when hackers added (Fake Pokémon Go app on Android store […]
Audacity and Classic Shell software downloads affected. A hacking crew that goes by the name of PeggleCrew has compromised Fosshub and embedded malware inside the files hosted on the website and offered for download. According to Cult of Peggle, one of the group’s four members, the team breached the website and embedded a malware payload inside some […]
Macros have been used since the mid 1990s to spread malware and infect systems. Increased user awareness of the need to disable the macro function within Microsoft Word during the late 90s and early 2000s sent these malware into decline. However, a change in Microsoft (MS) Office file formats dating from 2007 is now being […]
X-Tunnel is roughly based on XTunnel PortMap. One of the malware variants used to infiltrate and hack the Democratic National Committee (DNC) back in April 2016 is based on a piece of open source networking utility developed by a Chinese company in the early 2000s. The malware, codenamed X-Tunnel, is part of the arsenal used […]
Another day another PayPal scam — This time, it’s highly sophisticated and comes from a genuine PayPal email address! PayPal like other financial institutions is a favorite target of scammers, crooks and cyber criminals. Recently there has been an increase in PayPal related phishing scams but now researchers have also identified criminal elements using PayPal’s legitimate emails to spread […]
A new website set up by Europol, Intel and Kaspersky to help resist the threat of ransomware could allow you to recover encrypted data for free. The site is designed to stop people paying ransoms to malware creators as this makes the problem worse. Ransomware is a major threat. A series of major campaigns have […]
Increasingly, browsers are taking on a central role in our daily lives. With web apps for everything, we have placed our most intimate data on online services such as Facebook, Amazon or GMail. This move to online services has required that we up the security of our online services, and due diligence has brought us […]
It may be a good idea to stay away from this software. The website of the Ammyy Admin remote desktop management utility has been abused over and over again by malware distributors to spread six different malware families in the past year. The first signs that something was wrong came to light last November, when ESET […]
It’s not the next Stuxnet, says SentinelOne, it’s just very naughty code. Malware hyped as aimed at the hear of power plants is nothing of the sort according to security outfit Damballa, which has put its name to analysis claiming the “SFG” malware is run-of-the-mill code without sufficient smarts to target SCADA systems. The so-called […]
The malware dubbed Backdoor.MAC.Eleanor is embedded surreptitiously in the fake app EasyDoc Coverter.app and allows to control your webcam from the dark web Following the first ever instance of mac ransomware, recently reported by Palo Alto Networks. A second piece of malware has been discovered in the wild. The malicious software dubbed Backdoor.MAC.Eleanor or OSX/Eleanor-A comes […]
The US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was hacked between 2010 to 2013 and the usual suspect is China! The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology has published a report according to which China used a backdoor malware to hack the computer system at Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation between 2010 to 2013. In total 12 computers and […]
ATM transactions suspended in Taiwan for two days. Taiwan’s top eight banks have suspended operations on 900 ATMs after crooks stole NT$70 million ($2.18 million) from 20 branches across two cities over the weekend. The heists took place on Saturday and Sunday, July 9 and 10, 2016, and targeted the branches of Taiwan’s First Bank and […]
Short Bytes: In order to catch child pornography watchers, FBI created a website Playpen and hosted it on the dark web. Later in the case, the judges ruled out evidence due to lack of a proper warrant. FBI has filed a petition that the malware created by them shouldn’t be considered as malicious. Child pornography […]
Tool only drops malware after painstakingly dismantling AV and other defenses. A campaign that targeted a European energy company wielded malware that’s so sneaky and advanced it almost certainly is the work of a wealthy nation, researchers said Tuesday. The malware contains about 280 kilobytes of densely packed code that, like a ninja warrior, cleverly and […]
Tagged as “Ranscam”, Powershell and script-based malware is a botched smash-and-grab. There has been a lot of ingenuity poured into creating crypto-ransomware, the money-making malware that has become the scourge of hospitals, businesses, and home users over the past year. But none of that ingenuity applies to Ranscam, a new ransom malware reported by Cisco’s Talos […]