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Malware samples used in the recent attacks against several Polish banks contained planted evidence that attempted to blame the attacks on Russian-speaking hackers. These false flags, as the (IT and real-world) security community refers to these planted clues, were discovered by Sergei Shevchenko, a Russian-speaking security expert for BAE Systems. In a report published this […]
A remote access Trojan (RAT) is a malware program that incorporates a back door for administrative control over the objective PC. RATs are normally downloaded invisibly with a client trusted program like games, Email attachments. Remcos RAT was first sold in hacking forums in late 2016 and from that point it get’s updated with more […]
Bangkok police have detained an east European man Oleksandr Krachkovskyi who was carrying fake credit cards and the department is citing it as a great victory since they have managed to thwart a bank ATM oriented malware attack. Suspect under Thai police custody / Image Source: Bangkok Post. The 31-year-old Ukrainian passport holder Krachkovskyi was […]
Islamic State supporters are being targeted with a modified version of the Telegram Android app that contains a version of the OmniRAT remote access toolkit. The app, named plus_gram.apk, is spread via ISIS’ Telegram channels. Some Daesh members have detected the embedded malware and are now warning others. Posts on underground ISIS forums detailing this […]
Watering hole attacks attempt to infect more than 100 organizations in 31 different countries. Organizations in 31 countries have been targeted in a new wave of attacks which has been underway since at least October 2016. The attackers used compromised websites or “watering holes” to infect pre-selected targets with previously unknown malware. There has been […]
Researchers have issued a warning that hackers are resorting to the use of file-less malware programs to gain stealth access to the systems of organizations. This new form of attack is not only severe regarding its consequences but also represents a new threat, given its growing level of popularity. Here are details about this new […]
Cyber-security researchers at Securify, a Dutch security firm, have been evaluating the Marcher Android banking Trojan for the past six months. They have come to the conclusion that Marcher has been there since 2013 and its attacking tactics have been evolving since then. Until now, the Trojan has managed to infect thousands of Android devices […]
Short Bytes: The infamous Mirai botnet malware has finally entered the world of Microsoft Windows. An antivirus firm recently discovered a new variant of Mirai, which is now named Trojan.Mirai.1. The trojan uses Windows devices to increase Mirai’s botnet army by infecting Linux-based IoT devices. Notably, Mirai was the chief player in some of the biggest DDoS […]
Once the province of nation-sponsored hackers, in-memory malware goes mainstream. Two years ago, researchers at Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab discovered their corporate network was infected with malware that was unlike anything they had ever seen. Virtually all of the malware resided solely in the memory of the compromised computers, a feat that had allowed the infection […]
An Iranian espionage group has been using an unsophisticated strain of malware, dubbed MacDownloader, to steal credentials and other data from Mac users. A cyber espionage group linked to the Iranian Government has been using an unsophisticated strain of malware, dubbed MacDownloader, to steal credentials and other data from Mac computers. The researchers Claudio Guarnieri and […]
Polish banks are frantically scanning their workstations and servers while checking logs in the search of signs of infection after some of them noticed unusual network activity and unauthorised files on key machines within their networks. This is – by far – the most serious information security incident we have seen in Poland. It has been a busy […]
Facebook is one of the most used social media platforms in the world, and that makes it an attractive target for cyber criminals and online scammers. The latest to join the bandwagon of message-based scams on the social network is “This is you?” scam. What’s happening is that users receive a message on their Facebook […]
Three apps on Google Play use delayed attacks, self-naming tricks, and an attack list dictated by a command and control server to click on ads in the background without the user’s knowledge. Summary: Three apps on Google Play use delayed attacks, self-naming tricks, and an attack list dictated by a command and control server to […]
Trustwave researchers have identified flaws in 31 Netgear router models, which may lead to hackers gaining full control of devices. Using these security flaws, any attacker can fully bypass the password on Netgear routers, modify the configuration, create an army of botnets by infecting multiple routers and develop entirely new firmware. The new vulnerabilities were identified […]
Cyren, an Internet security firm, has discovered a new malware that can steal bitcoin and passwords from cryptocurrency wallets on computers. The company wrote on its blog that the malware is primarily targeting banking customers and the campaign is quite huge. The US and Singapore-based users are mainly targeted by this campaign. The malware is […]
Cocker Hill’s Police Department has revealed that its server was infected with ransomware and therefore, the department had to lose digital evidence from the past few years. Cocker Hill is a small community situated in southwest Dallas, Texas. As per the reports, the Police department of Cocker Hill lost digital data from as far as […]
Law enforcement government from Europe and Russia have arrested 5 members of an global cyber crook gang for stealing $3.2 million coins from ATMs the usage of ATM hack malware. Three of the suspects, Andrejs Peregudovs (41), of Latvia, Niklae Penkov (34) of Moldova, and Mihail Colibaba (30) of Romania, had been arrested in Taiwan […]
New Android play Store Malware called HummingBad Download several million times by unsuspecting users and possible to gain all root access of the infected Android phone. Check Point researchers have found a new variant of the HummingBad malware hidden in more than 20 apps on Google Play. Earlier 2016, Check Point on customer’s devices was […]
Security researchers have uncovered a new trojan that targets Linux devices that is capable of transforming infected machines into proxy servers and relay malicious traffic, hiding the true origin of attacks or other nefarious activities. This new trojan is named Linux.Proxy.10 and its first versions were spotted online towards the end of the year. According […]
Android malware known as HummingBad, that infected as many as 10 million devices in 2016, has resurfaced with several new features allowing it to perform ad fraud even more efficiently than its predecessor. Researchers said the variant, known as HummingWhale, was being distributed via 20 camera, music, flashlight and adult apps on Google Play. Google […]
Antivirus firm Dr. Web spotted a new Android malware dubbed BankBot that is based on a source code that was leaked on an underground forum. Bad news for Android users, researchers from the Russian antivirus maker Dr. Web have reported that the source code for another Android banking malware has been leaked on an underground hacking […]