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A new Linux malware has been spotted in the wild by security researchers at Eset, and it is much more sophisticated than any of the previously known Linux based malware. The security researchers have named this malware as “Linux/Shishiga” which utilizes four different protocols according to Eset research team. The protocols used are Telnet, HTTP and […]
A recently discovered strain of botnet malware has infected over 600,000 Android devices, as stated by the security researchers. Researchers have also found that the malware poses as a guide that wants to help gamers with online games like FIFA and Pokemon Go. These guides are actually a malicious software named FalseGuide. It’s been discovered […]
You may remember Google’s Safe Browsing Site Status mistakenly marking Google.com as a potentially dangerous domain to visit or the Google Maps mistakenly labeling Berlin Square as Hitler Square. Now another firm has joined this list, it’s Webroot Inc., a private American company, that provides Internet security software for consumers and businesses. It all happened on 24th April, […]
Windows’ system files were flagged as malicious, and Facebook was marked as a phishing site. A malware signature update issued by the company on Monday triggered the software into mistakenly flagging Windows system files as malware, melting down millions of managed systems around the world. The problem began in the afternoon on the US east […]
Malware specialized in infecting Point of Sale (PoS) software has gained the ability to search and steal driver’s license information, according to a report published by US cyber-security firm Trend Micro. The collection of driver’s license information surprised researchers, who haven’t spotted such behavior in a PoS malware family until now. Even more surprising was […]
One of the officers of UK’s Metropolitan Police Service was caught in possession of a malicious software used for infecting computers and smartphones after gaining physical access to them. It’s unclear as of yet whether this software was bought for official or personal use, but it does raise a question that why would an MPS’s […]
Interpol investigators announced today they’d identified over 8,800 servers hosted across eight countries in Southeast Asia used for various cybercrime operations. According to Interpol, these are command-and-control (C&C) servers used as malware download centers, for spreading ransomware, launching Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, and in spam distribution. Interpol only gathered the data, which it […]
A group of Israeli researchers has devised a new technique to exfiltrate data from a PC in an air-gapped network through malware controlled via scanners. The team was composed of Ben Nassi, a graduate student at the Cyber Security Research Center at Ben-Gurion University, and his advisor Yuval Elovici, based on an idea of the prominent cryptographer Adi Shamir. […]
Short Bytes: FBI has arrested a DevOps Engineer Zhengquan Zhang for stealing proprietary source code and accessing employee accounts at KCG Holdings where he worked as a supervisor. Zhang deployed malware on company’s servers to get employee login details. He later told that he was afraid of losing his job due to an acquisition. IIt […]
Short Bytes: In their latest revelation, Wikileaks has released a user guide describing the working of the Weeping Angel tool designed by CIA and MI5 to compromise Samsung smart TVs. The malware is capable of recording audio from the built-in microphone which can be remotely extracted by the CIA. The whistleblower website Wikileaks has published another […]
Short Bytes: A security firm called Zscalar spotted a malicious app living on the Play Store with a false moniker System Update. It managed to survive for around 3 years. Under the hood, it hides a spare called SMSVova which can be controlled by the attacker via SMS to fetch location details and change device […]
A few months earlier, it was reported that a number of InterContinental hotels have been targeted by a credit card stealing malware and now the IHG has confirmed that the reports were actually true. The attack is believed to have started in late September and since then, hackers have targeted at least 1200 InterContinental Hotels, according to TheVerge. Related: Hackers […]
The BankBot Android banking trojan is giving Google engineers headaches, as this particular piece of malware has a knack for avoiding Google’s security scans and reaching the official Play Store on a regular basis. The story of this banking trojan goes back to January 2017, when the source code of an unnamed Android banking trojan […]
[jpshare]Ransomware for Android, or any mobile platform, have been generally uncommon.The risk has fundamentally been kept to Windows desktops, where it’s flourished with a fast improvement cycles of new elements and capacities. At the current Kaspersky Lab Security Analyst Summit, Google tossed back on the blind on how it has curtailed ransomware on Android with […]
Thanks to ex-NSA spy, Edward Snowden, we all know that Governments use several hacking tools and malware to spy on public and most of the times they get away with that, but here is a plot twist. A group of hackers called “Calisto” exploited a malware previously used by the Italian surveillance firm, Hacking Team, […]
[jpshare]Security researcher Niels Croese found much new banking malware on Google Play, which has numerous new banking application focuses in its configurations. Taking a look at the names of the exercises and other manifest items it appeared like an ordinary application with embedded malware. Apparently, the app was updated recently (April 8, 2017) and this was most likely […]
Earlier this week, Spanish authorities arrested a Russian hacker and “one of the world’s most notorious criminal spammers,” Peter Yuryevich Levashov (Severa) in Spain. Now, the Feds are working on dismantling Kelihos botnet used by Severa to conduct his large-scale cyber crimes. According to a press release from Department of Justice, an extensive effort to disrupt and dismantle the Kelihos […]
Short Bytes: A team of Symantec researchers has been able to link around 40 cyber attacks, conducted by Longhorn group, to the CIA hacking tools leaks as a part of Vault 7. The researchers have found a striking resemblance between the tools and work practices described in Vault 7 and used by Longhorn. Within the last […]
You might have heard countless tales of hackers using malicious ransomware forcing users to pay huge amounts of money but not today. Today, we bring you a unique kind of ransomware which forces its victims to make a high score of at least 200 million points in popular Japanese video game TH12. According to Malware […]
Researchers have detected a new zero-day bug which uses a previously unknown flaw in Microsoft Word. The bug allows attackers to send malicious document files to users and hackers have started sending out emails with fake Word documents which when downloaded and opened, start working in the background on downloading different kinds of malware and therefore spread […]
Short Bytes: The latest addition to the Vault 7 leak by CIA is the set of 27 documents of the Grasshopper framework. CIA uses the framework to create custom malware that behaves according to the configuration of the target system. Grasshopper also helps CIA to implement various persistence mechanisms for the malware. We woke up […]