Malware & Threats

The Flash Player zero-day vulnerability whose existence was brought to light on Tuesday by Adobe has been exploited by a relatively new advanced persistent...

Malware & Threats

A worm observed in thousands of attacks this year features sophisticated protection mechanisms that allow it to remain on infected systems for years, GuardiCore...

Malware & Threats

Researchers are fairly confident that the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas is behind the cyber espionage group known as Gaza Hackers Team, Gaza Cybergang and...

Malware & Threats

The leaked source code of the Carberp Trojan has spawned numerous malware variations, and a new one has emerged showing increased sophistication.

Cybercrime

Malicious email campaigns spreading the Dridex banking Trojan and the Locky ransomware have been inactive for over a week after the Necurs botnet that...

Cybercrime

Ransomware is currently one of the largest cyber-threats out there, affecting enterprises and individuals alike, but every now and then the cybercriminals behind such...

Malware & Threats

One of the Windows features that has been long abused by cybercriminals is the Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS), and researchers at SecureWorks...

Malware & Threats

Malware & Threats

Angler, currently considered the most sophisticated and most successful exploit kit, has been observed delivering Flash and Silverlight exploits capable of evading Microsoft’s Enhanced...

Cybercrime

When Heimdal Security reported on a new TorrentLocker ransomware campaign in Sweden just over a week ago, it noted that the attackers would likely soon...

Malware & Threats

Malware authors are using various techniques to evade detection, and those operating the Cerber ransomware are now employing a server-side “malware factory” , researchers...

Malware & Threats

Several pieces of malware and adware have been observed using a clever technique to hide the changes they make to the DNS settings of...

Malware & Threats

Trend Micro researchers have come across a new point-of-sale (PoS) malware family that has been described as quick and efficient when it comes to...

Malware & Threats

An advanced persistent threat (APT) group believed to be based in Pakistan has been observed targeting government and military personnel in India using spear...

Malware & Threats

During a meeting last week in Belgium with Koen Van Impe, a security analyst with federal cyber emergency team, CERT.be, he recommended I look...

Malware & Threats

Law enforcement officers have arrested 50 hackers across Russia involved in bank fraud using the Lurk trojan, following 86 raids in 15 regions. Fourteen...

Malware & Threats

More than 19 months after it was patched by Drupal developers, a critical SQL injection vulnerability in the popular content management system is still...

Malware & Threats

A large number of ransomware families have emerged over the past several months, and a new one is now making the rounds, Microsoft researchers...

Endpoint Security

As attackers have become better at evading traditional signatures and malware sandboxes, security teams are increasingly turning to behavior-based detection models to find the...

Malware & Threats

An advanced persistent threat (APT) group believed to be linked to the government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been observed targeting journalists,...