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MysteryBot – Powerful Android Banking Trojan Launch Keylogger, Overlay & Ransomware in Single Attack

Newly Discovered Android-based MysteryBot Trojan launches various attack such as overlay, keylogger, and Ransomware in a single attack to perform various malicious activities. Based on activities and behavior, researchers believe that MysteryBot Trojan is another powerful banking trojan that inherits LokiBot, both Android banker is running on the same C&C server. Also, MysteryBot Trojan might next version […]

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Fauxpersky Keylogger Malware Stealing Passwords from Windows PCs

Cybercriminals are quite innovative, to be honest; they are always coming up with unique ways of exploiting Windows-based systems. According to the findings of Boston-based cyber-security firm Cybereason, one of their newly identified techniques involves using keylogger malware that exploits AutoIT or AutoHotKey (AHK). Fauxpersky Malware Spreads via malicious USB drives The malware, dubbed by […]

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Patched MS Office RCE Vulnerability Again Abused Windows Installer and Delivering a Keylogger

A Patched remote code execution Microsoft Office Vulnerability ( CVE-2017-11882) abusing again and using it for spreading a variety of  Malware such as  FAREIT, Ursnif and a Keylogger Loki info stealer that is used for stealing Crypto wallet password. In this case, some of the uncommon methods has been reused by helping of  Windows Installer service Windows. Previous […]

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KEYLOGGER CAMPAIGN RETURNS, INFECTING 2,000 WORDPRESS SITES

Over 2,000 WordPress sites are infected with a malicious script that can deliver both a keylogger and the in-browser cryptocurrency miner CoinHive. Researchers at Sucuri who made the discovery, said the recent campaign is tied to threat actors behind a December 2017 campaign that infected over 5,500 WordPress sites. Both incidents used a keylogger/cryptocurrency malware called cloudflare[.]solutions. The […]

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Skygofree: Following in the footsteps of HackingTeam

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 believe the initial versions of this malware were created at least three years ago – […]

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Researcher finds pre-installed keylogger in hundreds of HP laptops

When it comes to pre-installed malicious software, HP (Hewlett-Packard) has a thing for them. In May this year, the tech giant was in the news after security researchers found a pre-installed keylogger in HP machines. Now, a researcher going by the online handle of “Zwclose” has identified the presence of yet another keylogger in HP laptops providing […]

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Keylogger Discovered in HP Notebook Keyboard Drivers

HP Notebook Drivers contains Keylogger vulnerability that can be abused by hackers and steal the user’s information which could be affected with hundred of HP Notebook model. This critical vulnerability discovered in keyboard driver SynTP.sys HP Notebook computers and by default logging was disabled and we can enable by setting a registry value (UAC required). Registry value: HKLMSoftwareSynaptics%ProductName% […]

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HP laptops have keylogger attached to their Synaptics Touchpad driver

The keylogging code was embedded in the SynTP.sys file, which is a module of the Synaptics Touchpad driver that ships with HP notebook models. “The logging was disabled by default but could be permitted by setting a registry value,” said a security researcher going by the Title of ZwClose, who identified the flaw earlier this […]

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Cloudflare[.]Solutions Keylogger on Thousands of Infected WordPress Sites

A few weeks ago, we wrote about a massive WordPress infection that injected an obfuscated script pretending to be jQuery and Google Analytics. In reality, this script loaded a CoinHive cryptocurrency miner from a third-party server. We also mentioned a post written back in April that described the cloudflare.solutionsmalware, which came along with the cryptominers. At this moment, PublcWWW reports there are 5,482 sites […]

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Chinese Keyboard Developer Spies on User Through Built-in Keylogger

A Chinese mechanical keyboard manufacturer MantisTek has been caught in the middle of a controversy in which it’s being blamed for spying on users through built-in keylogger in its GK2 model and sending the data to a server apparently hosted on Alibaba Cloud server. The communication is happening over HTTP, not HTTPS which means the user data is being […]

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MantisTek GK2’s Keylogger Is A Warning Against Cheap Gadgets

Multiple online user reports claim that the MantisTek GK2 mechanical keyboard’s configuration software is sending data to an Alibaba server. One of the reports even includes an analysis of the software’s traffic, which seems to include typed keys. The MantisTek GK2 is a cheap RGB mechanical keyboard from China that costs half as much (or less) as the mechanical keyboards from […]

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Disguised as Citrix Utility, Kedi RAT Exploits Gmail to Transfer Data

A Remote Access Trojan (RAT) is one of the most used malicious software used by cybercriminals to target unsuspecting users. Based on its extensive use the IT security researchers at Sophos have discovered that there is a new RAT malware called Kedi that uses Gmail to steal data from the targeted computer. The malware relies upon spear phishing […]

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Svpeng Android Banking Trojan Tweaked with Keylogger Feature

With every passing day and every single hack attack, hackers are becoming more innovative in their tricks and apt at their social engineering skills. Now their attacks are difficult to detect, and they are adopting stealthy techniques lately. The latest Android Banking Trojan is a clear proof of this. According to Kaspersky Labs’ security researchers, […]

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ANDROID BANKING TROJAN SVPENG ADDS KEYLOGGER

The authors behind the Android banking malware family Svpeng have added a keylogger to a recent strain, giving attackers yet another way to steal sensitive data. Roman Unuchek, a senior malware analyst with Kaspersky Lab, said Monday he spotted a new variant of the Trojan in mid-July. Unuchek says the keylogger takes advantage of Accessibility Services, […]

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Keylogger spotted – HP machines could turn into a spyware

Security researchers have warned that HP machines could turn into a spyware thanks to an audio driver developed by Conexant Systems, Inc. which comes pre-installed in more than a dozen of HP devices. According to a security advisory published by Switzerland-based security consulting firm Modzero Conexant, responsible for making audio drivers comes with a component “MicTray64.exe” which is an executable […]

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Keylogger Found in Audio Driver of HP Laptops

The audio driver installed on some HP laptops includes a feature that could best be described as a keylogger, which records all the user’s keystrokes and saves the information to a local file, accessible to anyone or any third-party software or malware that knows where to look. Swiss cyber-security firm modzero discovered the keylogger on […]

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Credit Card Stealer Disguises as Google Chrome Browser

A new malicious application tries to disguise itself as the Google Chrome browser to fool victims into entering their payment card details. The app is still active at the time of writing and sends collected user details to an AOL email address. Discovered today by MalwareHunter, this application goes above and beyond of what other […]

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TeamSpy malware targeting users through malicious TeamViewer app

TeamSpy data-stealing malware has been detected again. This time, the malware being used in a new campaign that has been discovered by researchers at Heimdal Security. Through using TeamSpy (Pdf), attackers and threat actors can easily gain access and full control over any compromised computer. A majority of the targets seem to be unsuspecting online users, […]

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For Creating & Selling Limitless Keylogger A Student Got 10 Years Jail

Former 21 Years Old Langley high faculty scholar, who received a Programmer of the yr Award in excessive school, pleaded responsible on Friday to fees of growing and promoting custom key-logging malware that inflamed hundreds of victims. Zachary Shames from Virginia pleaded responsible in a federal district court and now faces a most penalty of […]

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Student Arrested for Selling Keylogger that Infected thousands of devices

A malware developer from Great Falls, Virginia created a keylogger having the capability of recording every single keystroke on a computer and sold it to over 3,000 people. As a result, around 16,000 systems were infected. The US Department of Justice released a press release revealing that the 21-year old hacker Zachary Shames was arrested […]

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