Category: Malware

February 24, 2020

Researchers have discovered a new SMS phishing campaign targeting mobile numbers in the United States aiming to steal online banking credentials and install the Emotet malware wherever possible. SMS phishing campaigns, also known as smishing, follows a straightforward recipe. Victims […]

February 21, 2020

Researchers have caught eight malicious Android apps in the official Google Play app store marketplace distributing a new malware family. The “Haken” malware exfiltrates sensitive data from victims and covertly signs them up for expensive premium subscription services. The eight […]

February 20, 2020

History of ransomware Ransomware, a type of malware that holds data for ransom, has been around for years. In 1991, a biologist spread PC Cyborg, the first ransomware, by sending floppy disks via surface mail to other AIDS researchers, for […]

February 18, 2020

Ten days after a suspected ransomware attack, residents of the English borough of Redcar and Cleveland must be starting to wonder when their Council’s IT systems will return. The first public sign of trouble appeared on the morning of Saturday, […]

February 18, 2020

The financial malware arena became a mainstream issue a little over a decade ago with the rise of malware like the Zeus Trojan, which at the time was the first commercial banking Trojan available to the cybercrime world. We have […]

February 13, 2020

In May 2017, Google introduced a security defense system called Google Play Protect to protect the devices running its mobile OS. Google aims at monitoring the behavior of the apps and the detection of the malicious ones once they have […]

February 11, 2020

IBM’s 2020 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index summarizes the most prominent threats observed by the company’s researchers last year, including OT threats. Based on data derived from network event logs, IBM saw an increase of over 2000 percent in attacks targeting […]

February 10, 2020

Ransomware attacks have matured over the years, adopting more stealthy and sophisticated techniques, while at the same time fixing many of the implementation errors that earlier iterations had. Moreover, some attacks are now gaining a new data leak component, which […]

February 4, 2020

Owned by Japan Post, Toll has over 40,000 employees and claims to have a global logistics network that spans across 1,200 locations in more than 50 countries. The company said it discovered a piece of ransomware on its systems on […]

February 3, 2020

Emotet operators are looking to pray on people’s fears to spread malware through malicious emails. In this case, they are using the real health crisis of the coronavirus outbreak in China. Using people’s fears to spread malware is not new, […]