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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 […]
The Guardian, a well known UK-based newspaper, is being heavily criticized by security researchers for publishing an unverified story on WhatsApp vulnerability. Reportedly, the news service published a report citing that it was possible to intercept encrypted messages on WhatsApp because the application contained a Backdoor. The Guardian’s report claiming a security flaw may be […]
A popular horse racing website (Racingpulse.in) that operates out of Bangalore, India was reportedly hacked on Tuesday. The hackers posted a statement on the home page informing that the entire data on the website has been encrypted. As is the norm, they also informed about what they expected as ransom. The ransom note suggested that they […]
IT security researchers have discovered a new malicious code which affects Mac and Linux systems. It has been dubbed by Apple Inc., as Fruitfly while Malwarebytes named it as Quimitchin, a name inspired by Aztec spies. This newly identified malware spy on biomedical research centers. It is being speculated that the malicious code has remained […]
The first Mac malware of 2017 was brought to my attention by an IT admin, who spotted some strange outgoing network traffic from a particular Mac. This led to the discovery of a piece of malware unlike anything I’ve seen before, which appears to have actually been in existence, undetected, for some time, and which seems to […]
A lot of DDoS movement on the Internet begins from supposed ‘booter/stresser’ administrations, which are DDoS-for-contract administrations which let even unsophisticated clients to dispatch high-affect assaults. What’s more, as we will see, the perpetual rivalry for benefits in the outrightly illicit DDoS-for-contract industry can lead those included down some extremely abnormal ways, to be sure. […]
Security researcher MalwareHunterTeam discovered today a new malware family that can infect computers and allow crooks to take control of these PCs using commands sent via an IRC channel. Named GhostAdmin, this threat is part of the “botnet malware” category. According to current information, the malware is already distributed and deployed in live attacks, being […]
FireEye have recognized another variation of the Ploutus ATM malware, utilized for as far back as couple of years to make ATMs retch out money on charge. Ploutus enabled criminals to empty ATMs using either an external keyboard attached to the machine or via SMS message, a technique that had never been seen before. There […]
Instagram undoubtedly is a very popular social networking platform, which is the main reason why it attracts the attention of cyber-criminals, hackers and scammers so frequently. According to latest findings from the mobile malware research team at Intel Security, Google Play store has become a haven for Instagram password stealers. These malicious cybercriminals are distributing […]
The Internet Archive has launched on Friday a Chrome extension that will detect “Page not found” and other web errors and replace them with a copy from its Wayback Machine, if available. The extension is already available on the Chrome Web Store. According to the Internet archive staff, the Chrome extension can detect server error […]
Security researchers have discovered a new ransomware campaign that not only gives back the encrypted files after payment of ransom but also offers immunity from future ransomware attacks to the victim. It is being distributed through spam emails that appear as invoices and contain a ZIP file in which an HTML Application or HTA file […]
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 […]
Zachary Shames pleaded guilty today to charges of developing and selling malware that was later used to infect thousands of victims. Before he was arrested this summer, the 21-year-old Shames worked as a technical intern at Northrop Grumman, a defense and security government contractor. Zachary Shames LinkedIn profile Unknown to his employer is that while […]
You are in this video is a new malware scam which tricks users into infecting their devices allowing hackers to steal their credentials and much more. Until now you must have heard about so many scams involving Facebook Messenger that whenever you see a suspicious chat message sent from other friends on your Facebook profile, […]
Short Bytes: A student hacker from Virginia, named Zachary Shames, has pleaded guilty to the charges to writing a keylogger and selling it. His keylogger helped different buyers infect about 16,000 computers. The 21-year-old wrote the spyware in his school and continued to improve it in his college. Shames will be sentenced on June 16 with a […]
Facebook users in France are subject to a wave of malicious ads, which if clicked, will redirect them to a website hosting a tech support scam. The campaign was first reported on the Malekal forum by French users. At the moment, the malvertising attack seems to be aimed at French-speaking users only, with all the […]
Researchers claim that the malware is currently priced at $4,000 and comes with ‘bot killer’ features. Security researchers have uncovered a new malware strain, dubbed Nuke, put up for sale on the dark web by an alleged Russian cybercriminal going by the pseudonym Gosya. Researchers noted that the malware comes with several features, including “bot […]