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We recently told you about the highly dangerous Lockergoga Virus, which caused Havoc in the industrial complexes. Well, there is a new malware called vxCrypter ransomware in the digital space and it will encrypt your files along and ‘improve’ your PC’s performance. Vccrypter is based on an unfinished, old ransomware called vxLock that utilized Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and Rivest-Shamir-Adleman or RSA […]
Microsoft released a new future called Tamper protection in Microsoft Defender ATP to provide next-gen security to their users and block the advanced and never before seen malware within a seconds. In order to expand the security in Microsoft anti-malware solution, Tamper protection provides an additional security future against improper modification in the apps by […]
Game of Thrones downloads seem to be favored greatly for spreading Windows malware, according to a new report. In a recent report, security firm Kaspersky Lab says, based on data obtained from its Kaspersky Security Network, that Game of Thrones is the most widely used among all downloaded TV shows for spreading Windows malware. 126,320 […]
CMS based sites such as WordPress and Joomla are the popular targets for cybercriminals, they hijack those sites and inject malicious contents. ThreatLabZ researchers detected a campaign that targets WordPress and Joomla sites to distribute Shade/Troldesh ransomware, backdoors, redirectors, and a variety of phishing pages. Hackers use to hijack several hundreds of CMS sites and […]
A new wave of Emotet malware campaign distribute the Nozelesn ransomware that targets hospitality industries based endpoint systems via malicious word documents. Telemetry had over 14,000 detections via emotet spam emails that are distributed all over the world between January 9, 2019, and February 7, 2019. These mass infections mainly targeting specific countries including Great […]
Cyber Criminals launching a new malware via weaponized PDF & MS Word Version of New Zealand terror suspect’s manifesto. Researchers noticed 8chan, an imageboard website composed of user-created boards contains several posts that link to a manifesto, allegedly authored by the terror suspect of New Zealand terror attack. These Manifesto contain several version of PDF […]
Apparently, the malware attack is carried out by Russian speaking hackers. The IT security researchers at Zscaler have discovered a sophisticated malware campaign targeting websites based on WordPress and Joomla content management system (CMS). The campaign works in such a way that hackers take advantage of a hidden directory on HTTPS and exploit vulnerabilities in extensions, plugins, and themes […]
Gustuff a fully automated baking malware that abuses the accessibility Service to steal login credentials from 100+ global bank accounts and robs users of 32 cryptocurrency apps. The Accessibility Services in Android devices is to assist users with disabilities in using Android devices and apps. Gustuff malware script contains fake pages targeting users of Android […]
Gustuff Android malware from Russia with love. Group-IB, a cybersecurity firm, has discovered a new breed of Trojan horse malware called Gustuff, which specifically targets Android phones to steal banking credentials and digital assets of users. The malware targets customers of cryptocurrency exchanges and mainstream international banks. As per the analysis of Group-IB, the malware […]
Hackers continue to employ new techniques to evade detection from antivirus and other security products. This time they started using previously reported and widely used BOM technique. Previously Russian hacker groups used this technique to modify the hosts file on Windows systems. The Byte Order Mark additional helps the threat actor groups to stay under […]
Law enforcement agencies announced the results of Operation SaboTor, a coordinated international operation targeting vendors and buyers of dark web market places. As a result of the operation, law enforcement agencies made 61 arrests and shuts down 50 Darknet accounts used for illegal activities. The joint operation between Europol, FBI, and DEA conducted between January […]
A typical antivirus products and End Point services today generally speaking comes with two ways of detecting malware: Signature-based Heuristics The signature-based antivirus has evolved since the days of the earliest MS-DOS malware, but still follows the tried-and-tested formula of using sample part of the malware code in order to identify malware infection in the […]
According to MalwareBytes’s 2019 State of Malware Report, Trojans and crypto miners are the dominate malware threats of 2019. Android phones may get infected with malware less often than Windows computers, but that doesn’t mean they’re not vulnerable. With more consumers using mobile devices for more of their online activity, knowing how to remove Trojans […]
The victims of ShadowHammer malware attack are Windows users. Kaspersky Lab researchers have made a startling new revelation that the world’s leading computer maker ASUS’s live software update system was compromised by cybercriminals to install a backdoor, which affected ASUS customers. The attack occurred in 2018 and according to Kaspersky Lab, the attackers compromised the legitimate […]
Ransomware is a type of malware which encrypts the user’s file until he/she does not hand over a designated sum of ransom. However, the recent iteration of the infamous malware known as LockerGoga Ransomware could have catastrophic effects in the digital as well as physical space. The first instance of the dangerous LockerGoga ransomware surfaced in January 2019. Hackers […]
Beware! If you are using UC Browser on your smartphones, you should consider uninstalling it immediately. Why? Because the China-made UC Browser contains a “questionable” ability that could be exploited by remote attackers to automatically download and execute code on your Android devices. Developed by Alibaba-owned UCWeb, UC Browser is one of the most popular […]
Lockergoga infection was first spotted in January 2019, the ransomware particularly targets on critical infrastructure. The Lockergoga ransomware encrypts all the files in the system and appends .locked extension and leaves a ransom note in the desktop folder. It was written in C++ with the helper libraries such as Boost and Crypto++. Now an Alert […]
Cyber Criminals abused the worlds largest computer maker ASUS computers software update tool by hijacking the company server and install the malware. ASUS live update tool contacts the ASUS update server periodically to see if any firmware or other software updates are available and the tool installed on laptops and other devices. Attackers performed a […]
According to the authors of the book ‘Learn ethical hacking’, a group of hackers has infected hundreds of thousands of Asus computers using the company’s own update tool. According to specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security, Asus, a company based in Taiwan, is one of the leading companies supplying portable computer equipment worldwide. […]
Remember the CCleaner hack? CCleaner hack was one of the largest supply chain attacks that infected more than 2.3 million users with a backdoored version of the software in September 2017. Security researchers today revealed another massive supply chain attack that compromised over 1 million computers manufactured by Taiwan-based tech giant ASUS. A group of […]
Sophisticated AZORult Malware emerges in a new form with advanced information stealing modules that capable of stealing sensitive information from infected computers. AZORult is one of the well-known malware that often sold in Russian forums for the higher price ($100) , since this malware contains a broad range of persistent functionality. It uses .bit domains […]