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Category: Virus & Malware


Threats & Malware, Virus & Malware

Exfiltration malware takes center stage in cybersecurity concerns

March 15, 2023

Via: Help Net Security

While massive public data breaches rightfully raise alarms, the spike in malware designed to exfiltrate data directly from devices and browsers is a key contributor to continued user exposure, according to SpyCloud. The 2023 report identified over 22 million unique […]


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Microsoft squashes Windows bug exploited to inflict ransomware misery

March 14, 2023

Via: The Register

Criminals are exploiting a Microsoft SmartScreen bug to deliver Magniber ransomware, potentially infecting hundreds of thousands of devices, without raising any security red flags, according to Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG). TAG discovered the in-the-wild exploit, and reported it to […]


Threats & Malware, Virus & Malware

Warning: AI-generated YouTube Video Tutorials Spreading Infostealer Malware

March 13, 2023

Via: The Hacker News

Threat actors have been increasingly observed using AI-generated YouTube Videos to spread a variety of stealer malware such as Raccoon, RedLine, and Vidar. “The videos lure users by pretending to be tutorials on how to download cracked versions of software […]


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Fake ChatGPT Chrome Extension Hijacking Facebook Accounts for Malicious Advertising

March 13, 2023

Via: The Hacker News

A fake ChatGPT-branded Chrome browser extension has been found to come with capabilities to hijack Facebook accounts and create rogue admin accounts, highlighting one of the different methods cyber criminals are using to distribute malware. “By hijacking high-profile Facebook business […]


Threats & Malware, Virus & Malware

U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Raises Alarm Over Royal Ransomware’s Deadly Capabilities

March 3, 2023

Via: The Hacker News

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a new advisory about Royal ransomware, which emerged in the threat landscape last year. “After gaining access to victims’ networks, Royal actors disable antivirus software and exfiltrate large amounts of […]


Threats & Malware, Virus & Malware

Wiper malware goes global, destructive attacks surge

February 27, 2023

Via: Help Net Security

The threat landscape and organizations’ attack surface are constantly transforming, and cybercriminals’ ability to design and adapt their techniques to suit this evolving environment continues to pose significant risk to businesses of all sizes, regardless of industry or geography. Destructive […]


Threats & Malware, Virus & Malware

PureCrypter Malware Targets Government Entities in Asia-Pacific and North America

February 27, 2023

Via: The Hacker News

Government entities in Asia-Pacific and North America are being targeted by an unknown threat actor with an off-the-shelf malware downloader known as PureCrypter to deliver an array of information stealers and ransomware. “The PureCrypter campaign uses the domain of a […]


Threats & Malware, Virus & Malware

ChromeLoader Malware Targeting Gamers via Fake Nintendo and Steam Game Hacks

February 27, 2023

Via: The Hacker News

A new ChromeLoader malware campaign has been observed being distributed via virtual hard disk (VHD) files, marking a deviation from the ISO optical disc image format. “These VHD files are being distributed with filenames that make them appear like either […]


Threats & Malware, Virus & Malware

New S1deload Malware Hijacking Users’ Social Media Accounts and Mining Cryptocurrency

February 23, 2023

Via: The Hacker News

An active malware campaign has set its sights on Facebook and YouTube users by leveraging a new information stealer to hijack the accounts and abuse the systems’ resources to mine cryptocurrency. Bitdefender is calling the malware S1deload Stealer for its […]


Threats & Malware, Virus & Malware

New Mirai Botnet Variant ‘V3G4’ Exploiting 13 Flaws to Target Linux and IoT Devices

February 17, 2023

Via: The Hacker News

A new variant of the notorious Mirai botnet has been found leveraging several security vulnerabilities to propagate itself to Linux and IoT devices. Observed during the second half of 2022, the new version has been dubbed V3G4 by Palo Alto […]


Threats & Malware, Virus & Malware

ESXiArgs Ransomware Hits Over 500 New Targets in European Countries

February 16, 2023

Via: The Hacker News

More than 500 hosts have been newly compromised en masse by the ESXiArgs ransomware strain, most of which are located in France, Germany, the Netherlands, the U.K., and Ukraine. The findings come from attack surface management firm Censys, which discovered […]


Threats & Malware, Virus & Malware

Hackers Using Google Ads to Spread FatalRAT Malware Disguised as Popular Apps

February 16, 2023

Via: The Hacker News

Chinese-speaking individuals in Southeast and East Asia are the targets of a new rogue Google Ads campaign that delivers remote access trojans such as FatalRAT to compromised machines. The attacks involve purchasing ad slots to appear in Google search results […]


Network security, Threats & Malware, Virus & Malware

Massive AdSense Fraud Campaign Uncovered – 10,000+ WordPress Sites Infected

February 14, 2023

Via: The Hacker News

The threat actors behind the black hat redirect malware campaign have scaled up their campaign to use more than 70 bogus domains mimicking URL shorteners and infect over 10,800 websites. “The main objective is still ad fraud by artificially increasing […]


Threats & Malware, Virus & Malware

Malware that can do anything and everything is on the rise

February 14, 2023

Via: Help Net Security

“Swiss Army knife” malware – multi-purpose malware that can perform malicious actions across the cyber-kill chain and evade detection by security controls – is on the rise, according to the results of Picus Security’s analysis of over 550,000 real-world malware […]


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City of Oakland Hit by Ransomware Attack

February 13, 2023

Via: Security Week

The cyberattack, the city’s administration says in an incident notification, started on Wednesday night and led to network outages as a result of systems being disconnected from the internet. While voicemail and other non-emergency services are experiencing interruptions or have […]


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Gootkit Malware Adopts New Tactics to Attack Healthcare and Finance Firms

February 9, 2023

Via: The Hacker News

The Gootkit malware is prominently going after healthcare and finance organizations in the U.S., U.K., and Australia, according to new findings from Cybereason. The cybersecurity firm said it investigated a Gootkit incident in December 2022 that adopted a new method […]


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ESXiArgs Ransomware Hits Over 3,800 Servers as Hackers Continue Improving Malware

February 9, 2023

Via: Security Week

After the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced the availability of an open source tool designed to help some victims of the ESXiArgs ransomware recover their files without paying a ransom, the FBI and CISA released a document […]


Threats & Malware, Virus & Malware

New Banking Trojan Targeting 100M Pix Payment Platform Accounts

February 7, 2023

Via: Dark Reading

A new Android banking Trojan called PixPirate is targeting more than 100 million Brazilian Pix instant payment accounts. The Pix payment platform was created and is operated by the Brazil Central Bank, and it’s used to make instant mobile payments […]


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Global Ransomware Attack on VMware EXSi Hypervisors Continues to Spread

February 7, 2023

Via: Dark Reading

A global ransomware attack on VMware ESXi hypervisors is expanding, according to multiple government agencies and researchers, having already infected thousands of targets. The attack, first flagged late Feb. 3 by the French Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-FR), has already […]


Threats & Malware, Virus & Malware, Vulnerabilities

Thousands of unpatched VMware ESXi servers hit by ransomware via old bug (CVE-2021-21974)

February 6, 2023

Via: Help Net Security

Late last week, unknown attackers launched a widespread ransomware attack hitting VMware ESXi hypervisors via CVE-2021-21974, an easily exploitable vulnerability that allows them to run exploit code remotely, without prior authentication. Patches for CVE-2021-21974, a vulnerability in ESXi’s OpenSLP service, […]