Here you will find all the articles with the tag: Malware attacks.
The European Commission submitted a proposal on Wednesday, to pool resources and expertise sourced from its 27 member states, to form an overarching ‘internet police’ unit that will fight online criminals. The announcement comes amid a spate of highly publicized attacks across Europe and the wo... Read more
3 years ago
Kubernetes clusters used for cryptocurrency mining are being targeted in the wild by a new form of malware. Details of this were released by security researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42. The malware has been named Hildegard and was first detected in January. It is believed that the TeamTN... Read more
3 years ago
Security researchers have uncovered a new phishing campaign that uses the Covid-19 pandemic vaccine news to spread malware and Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks. The attacks target people in businesses by pretending to be organizations involved in the manufacture of vaccines, the WHO, and DHL... Read more
3 years ago
This latest update is notable in helping admins defend against malware attacks. Microsoft has announced a new release of their Sysinternals package. As part of the release, they have updated the Sysmon utility with the ability to detect Process Herpaderping and Process Hollowing attacks. Sysm... Read more
3 years ago
Ransomware gangs have been cold-calling victims if they suspect their targets are attempting to restore their systems from backups without paying the ransom. The cold-calling tactics are meant to put pressure on the victims to pay instead of seeking other alternatives. Evgueni Erchov, the direct... Read more
3 years ago
Security experts have discovered a new malware that can spy and obtain data from 153 Android applications. According to the report released on Monday by security firm Kaspersky, Ghimob (an Android banking Trojan) is believed to have been developed by the same group that developed Guildma (Astaro... Read more
3 years ago
Microsoft claimed that it disrupted the infamous botnet named TrickBot, in partnership with other companies. The evidence shows that only part of the botnet was affected by the takedown. TrickBot first appeared back in 2016 and is believed to be in more than 1 million machines. It was used to ge... Read more
4 years ago
Cybersecurity agencies from Japan, France, and New Zealand have issued security alerts in recent publications. In the publications, they warn about a massive spike in Emotet malware attack. The Emotet activity involves email spam campaigns that are a product of the Emotet infrastructure. They ha... Read more
4 years ago
Apple has its failures but security is one of the things that they do very well, especially for their Macs. However, a new incident might tarnish their impressive record. Recently, Apple approved an Adobe Flash-based malware to run on their Macs without any warning. The researchers Patrick Wardl... Read more
4 years ago
Qbot first appeared about ten years ago. It went into the shadows and has resurfaced with new features. It is now roaming the wild with one of the new features that give it the ability to hijack Microsoft Outlook email threads. In a detailed report by Check Point Software Technologies rese... Read more
4 years ago
