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  • New Android Malware Can Physically Damage Your Phone

    December 18, 2017

    Due to the recent surge in cryptocurrency prices, not only hackers but also legitimate website administrators are increasingly using JavaScript-based cryptocurrency miners to monetize by levying the CPU power of your PC to mine Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies. Just last week, researchers from AdGuard discovered that some popular video streaming and ripper sites including openload, Streamango, Rapidvideo, and OnlineVideoConverter hijacks CPU cycles from their ...

  • Triton Malware Targets Industrial Control Systems in Middle East

    December 15, 2017

    Researchers found malware called Triton on the industrial control systems of a company located in the Middle East. Attackers planted Triton, also called Trisis, with the intent of carrying out a “high-impact attack” against an unnamed company with the goal of causing physical damage, researchers said. FireEye’s Mandiant threat research team revealed the existence of the malware ...

  • Pre-Installed Keylogger Found On Over 460 HP Laptop Models

    December 8, 2017

    HP has an awful history of ‘accidentally’ leaving keyloggers onto its customers’ laptops. At least two times this year, HP laptops were caught with pre-installed keylogger or spyware applications. I was following a tweet made by a security researcher claiming to have found a built-in keylogger in several HP laptops, and now he went public with his findings. A security researcher who goes ...

  • Process Doppelgänging: New Malware Evasion Technique Works On All Windows Versions

    December 7, 2017

    A team of security researchers has discovered a new malware evasion technique that could help malware authors defeat most of the modern antivirus solutions and forensic tools. Dubbed Process Doppelgänging, the new fileless code injection technique takes advantage of a built-in Windows function and an undocumented implementation of Windows process loader. Ensilo security researchers Tal Liberman and Eugene Kogan, who ...

  • International team takes down virus-spewing Andromeda botnet

    December 5, 2017

    Police and private companies have taken down a massive botnet used to move malware onto compromised PCs. The Andromeda botnet, also known as Gamarue, is thought to have spanned over two million PCs and distributed over 80 types of malware onto infected PCs. It was shut down on November 29 in a combined operation by Europol, ...

  • Ursnif Trojan Adopts New Code Injection Technique

    December 4, 2017

    Hackers are testing a new variation of the Ursnif Trojan aimed at Australian bank customers that utilizes novel code injection techniques. Since the summer of 2017, IBM X-Force researchers report that Ursnif (or Gozi) samples have been tested in wild by a new malware developer. The samples are a noteworthy upgrade from previous versions. “This finding is ...

  • RAT Distributed Via Google Drive Targets East Asia

    November 30, 2017

    Researchers said that they are tracking a new remote access Trojan dubbed UBoatRAT that is targeting individuals or organizations linked to South Korea or the video game industry. While targets aren’t 100 percent clear, researchers at Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 said UBoatRAT threats are evolving and new variants are increasingly growing more sophisticated. They said ...

  • New Mirai Variant Found Spreading like Wildfire

    November 23, 2017

    A security researcher reportedly discovered a new variant of Mirai (identified by Trend Micro as ELF_MIRAI family) that is quickly spreading. A notable increase in traffic on port 2323 and 23 was observed over the weekend, with around 100 thousand unique scanner IPs coming from Argentina. The release of the Proof-of-Concept (PoC) exploit code in a public vulnerabilities database was ...

  • Banking Trojan Gains Ability to Steal Facebook, Twitter and Gmail Accounts

    November 14, 2017

    Security researchers have discovered a new, sophisticated form of malware based on the notorious Zeus banking Trojan that steals more than just bank account details. Dubbed Terdot, the banking Trojan has been around since mid-2016 and was initially designed to operate as a proxy to conduct man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks, steal browsing information such as stored credit card information ...

  • DHS, FBI describe North Korea’s use of FALLCHILL malware

    November 14, 2017

    The North Korean government has likely been using the malware since 2016 to target the aerospace, telecommunications, and finance industries, the US government says. The federal government on Tuesday issued an alert detailing the North Korean government’s use of malware known as FALLCHILL, warning that North Korea has likely been using the malware since 2016 to target the ...