Tag: Trojans

April 27, 2023

Remote Access Trojans (RATs) have taken the third leading position in ANY. RUN’s Q1 2023 report on the most prevalent malware types, making it highly probable that your organization may face this threat. Though LimeRAT might not be the most […]

February 27, 2023

Figures of the year In 2022, Kaspersky mobile products and technology detected: 1,661,743 malicious installers 196,476 new mobile banking Trojans 10,543 new mobile ransomware Trojans Trends of the year Mobile attacks leveled off after decreasing in the second half of […]

January 30, 2023

The Google Play Store has been home to a growing number of suspicious activities in recent months, new research has found. A study by Dr.Web found a large number of fake apps and trojans designed to subscribe victims to paid […]

September 26, 2022

Executive Summary NullMixer is a dropper leading to an infection chain of a wide variety of malware families. NullMixer spreads via malicious websites that can be found mainly via search engines. These websites are often related to crack, keygen and […]

August 8, 2022

CISA and ACSC have been monitoring ransomware, rootkits, spyware, trojans, viruses, and worms, but trojans dominated the landscape last year, when Agent Tesla, AZORult, Formbook, GootLoader, LokiBot, MouseIsland, NanoCore, Qakbot, Remcos, TrickBot and Ursnif were the top malware strains. Some […]

May 6, 2022

Billing fraud is one of the most common sources of income for cybercriminals. There are currently a number of known mobile Trojans specializing in secretly subscribing users to paid services. They usually pay for legitimate services in a user’s name […]

February 28, 2022

The king of tricks is dead. Long live the new king. Or will it make a comeback? While we already assumed TrickBot was dead in the water, the shutdown of the server infrastructure on February 24, 2022, did not go […]

February 9, 2022

In 2021: 56% of e-mails were spam 77% of spam was sent from Russia with another 14.12% from Germany Our Mail Anti-Virus blocked 148 173 261 malicious attachments sent in e-mails The most common malware family found in attachments were […]

June 24, 2021

In mid-March 2021, we observed two new spam campaigns. The messages in both cases were written in English and contained ZIP attachments or links to ZIP files. Further research revealed that both campaigns ultimately aimed to distribute banking Trojans. The […]

December 8, 2016

File this one in the “Irony” department: Threat actors have been discovered trying to infect security-minded individuals with a Trojan downloader by sending spear phishing emails that offer free invitations to Palo Alto Networks’ Nov. 3 Cyber Security Summit in Jakarta, Indonesia. […]

October 17, 2016

1. Why do I need to read this? This article will help you to protect the money in your bank account. 2. Mobile banking Trojans — what are they? Every smartphone is a compact computer equipped with its own operating […]

July 7, 2016

Even the simplest malware can bring about an emotional response. For example, a classic Skype Trojan simply sent the message “Hi” to everyone in its victims’ contact list each time they were online. The result was pretty predictable: The friends […]

February 10, 2016

Dridex, Gozi, and Shifu are just three of the many malware tools that could replace Dyre, security researchers say. With the operators of the infamous Dyre banking Trojan either lying low or busted by law enforcement authorities in Russia, security […]

January 26, 2016

Anyone who kept up with cyber-security news in 2015 already knows it was a big year for malware and the cyber-criminal gangs that develop it. Malware sophistication reached new heights with Dyre, Shifu and other gang-owned codes, revealing that the […]

November 19, 2015

Researchers at Invincea report that banking trojans delivered by weaponized Office documents were the top attack vector for the month of October. “Weaponized docs are still being used because the attackers know that they are an effective means of delivering […]

November 5, 2015

Attackers are creating rogue versions of popular Android applications that compromise the security of devices and are extremely hard to remove. Researchers from mobile security firm Lookout have found more than 20,000 samples of such trojanized apps. They’re typically fully […]

September 23, 2015

#ransomware is an actual cyber – phenomenon. First brought to attention in 1989 (the AIDS Trojan or PC Cyborg), then mentioned somewhere back in 2005 (Trojan.Gpcoder, then the Archiveus Trojan in 2006 that combined ransomware with RSA encryption), 2014 seems […]

June 29, 2015

Authorities from six European countries have taken down a major cybercriminal group in Ukraine suspected of developing, exploiting and distributing well-known banking Trojans Zeus and SpyEye, according to Europol. Police arrested five suspects between June 18 and 19. The cybercriminals […]