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Beware while downloading Fortnite on your Android device because you may end up getting your device infected with malware. According to the analysis of Lookout cyber-security firm’s researchers Adam Bauer and Christoph Hebeisen, whoever downloads the recently released Android Fortnite on a mobile phone will be at risk of malware infection. The reason is that […]
Mining malware has been a headache in 2018, and some organizations still don’t implement security measures Cyber security organization experts report that nearly a third of the organizations claim to have suffered cryptojacking attacks, meanwhile, hackers keep working in their attempts to drive cryptocurrency malware attacks. Cryptojacking attacks have become increasingly popular among the cybercriminals, as […]
Trickbot malware is one of the widely known Banking Trojan emerging again with sophisticated techniques to at target the various financial institutions and large bank to steal the banking credentials. The current version of Trickbot malware is spreading with a powerful code injection technique to evade the detection, anti-analysis technique and disable the security tools that run in […]
Apple is generally considered reliable in making safe and secure software. It is widely believed that the company works really hard to make the defense mechanism of its OS and devices strong enough to evade malware infections and another malicious coding. However, days of blindly trusting any firm including Apple are long gone..or so it […]
Security fraternity is still dealing with the adverse consequences and versatile range of threats caused by the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. But, to add to their misery, there is another possibly worst hardware flaw detected by security researchers in Intel chips. This flaw, dubbed as Foreshadow, can obtain information even from the most secured components […]
Hackers compromised the Cosmos Bank server and allegedly transferred over Rs 94 crore between August 11 and August 13. The Cosmos Bank is the oldest and second largest bank in India, it was established in 1906. According to the bank statement, hackers propagated malware to one the ATM Switch servers and bypasses the online security […]
Hackers Demand Ransom to Unlock Hijacked Files of Upcoming PGA Golf Championship. Hackers seem to have a penchant for targeting high-profile events. After successfully attempting to make American presidential elections questionable, now cybercriminals have their eyes set on key PGA tournaments. Reportedly, to jeopardize this week’s PGA Championship, which is due to be held at […]
Trend Micro researchers have discovered a malware listing on Dark Web marketplace that lets attackers steal from Bitcoin ATMs. They can easily rake in cryptocurrency worth 6,750 in Euros, Pounds or Dollars by attacking the ATMs. The listing was perhaps created on June 25, 2018. It is available at a whopping price tag of $25,000. […]
As the popularity of cryptocurrencies increases attackers shifted the threat landscape cryptocurrencies, they try to exploit all the possible methods to mine and steal cryptocurrencies. Security researchers from Trend Micro spotted Bitcoin ATM malware through underground forums that allow the user’s to steal bitcoins worth up to 6,750 in U.S. dollars. The malware sold by […]
Cybercriminals infecting over 1,50,000 MikroTik Routers using Coinhive Cryptojacking Campaign using site key to ultimately mining the cryptocurrency. Based on the Shodan query returns and the site key that used by an attacker for those devices indicates that it mainly focused on Brazil. In this case, one of the users from Brazil complains that CoinHive code injects […]
Electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attacks can render our advanced technology to recede as back to pre-industrial revolution stage. In other words, we in the corporate world will be forced back to using typewriters, as our computers are damaged beyond repairs. Dusting-off the old typewriters to replace broken computers happened recently in Matanuska-Susitna’s local government. A borough […]
A modern phishing campaign focusing on the industrial sector appears once again and demonstrated how attackers are continually enhancing at attracting high profile-clients into executing malware on their systems. Kaspersky Lab on Wednesday issued a warning that said it has observed a wave of spear-phishing emails expertly disguised as procurement and accounting letters being sent […]
Apple Hacking Tools Double the Cost of Other Brands on Dark Web. There was a time when hackers needed to be really smart to accomplish their malicious deeds; now they only need to spend a meager amount of money to get the necessary tools and carry out attacks. Or so it seems if we have […]
Cybercriminals distributing powerful malware that abuse legitimate remote administration tools such as TeamViewer & RMS to gain the victim’s system control remotely and steal money from the target organization. Attackers continuously targeting the industrial companies in different origins since 2017 and still the malware campaign distributing into various organizations. The main goal of the attack […]
The ransomware attack also forced employees to use hand receipts. Two municipalities in Alaska (one town and one borough to be precise) have become victims of sophisticated encryption-based malware (ransomware) attack. Reportedly, the Matanuska-Susitna (Mat Su) and the City of Valdez have both been targeted with ransomware. Moving to typewriters The attack has had a devastating impact as […]
ZombieBoy malware makes $1,000 Monero on a monthly basis. An independent security expert James Quinn has discovered a new family of cryptominers that has been dubbed as ZombieBoy. According to Quinn’s analysis, the newly discovered cryptomining worm clocked in at 43 KH/s which means as per the on-going Monero rate, it is making $1,000 on a […]
Yes, malware in Android apps aimed at Windows devices. Palo Alto Networks’ researchers have made a startling new discovery that nearly 145 applications available on the Google Play Store contain malicious Microsoft Windows executable files. Some of the malware-infected apps have been downloaded over a thousand times and display 4-star ratings. The malicious code cannot […]
The new version of Bisonal Malware is discovered that it is carried by Weaponized PDF Icon that mainly targeting the organizations related to government, military or defense industries. This malware campaign mainly used in an attack against various countries since 2014, at this time malware authors, are updating various future in the new version of […]
Google removed around 145 apps from the Google Play store that infected by Windows Malware which are not developed to infect the Android platform but for windows OS devices. Removed APK files are infected while developers are creating these apps in compromised windows platform where attackers infect the applications with Windows-based keylogger. These types of […]
Threat actors behind AZORult malware released an updated version with improvements on both the stealer and the downloader functionalities. Within a day after the new version released a dark web user used AZORult in a large Email campaign to distribute Hermes ransomware. The new campaign with the updated version of AZORult delivering thousands of messages […]
Cyber Criminals selling Parasite HTTP RAT (Remote Access Trojan) on the underground marketplace that distributed via Email to the victims using Weaponized Microsoft office documents. A dubbed Parasite HTTP is a professionally coded modular remote administration tool for windows Which is written by malware authors using “C” programming language. It uses a technique called an extensive […]