Here you will find all the articles with the tag: malware.
An engineer at Google is asking developers to be more security conscious in a world filled with malware like Spectre. In 2018, the Spectre family of vulnerabilities were disclosed to exist in the latest generation of microprocessor chips. The Spectre wave consisted of data-leaking side-channel a... Read more
3 years ago
They make their delivery sites popular on Google before deploying their malware. Evil genius at work! Hackers have started using search engine optimization (SEO) techniques to deploy malware to even more victims. Sophos, the cybersecurity firm, has identified this new technique. They ca... Read more
3 years ago
Apple's machines are becoming more targeted as macOS market share grows. Thanks to the relatively small size of Apple's share of the PC market, Apple users in the past did not have to worry so much about malware. Indeed, ten years ago, macOS' operating system market share was only 6.5 perce... 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
The change to a key setting is designed to limit the damage that an infection can cause in an enterprise setting. Microsoft is enhancing security for users of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint by changing a key setting in the software. Specifically, they are switching the default setting from opti... 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
In the last five years (perhaps more), macOS users have been targeted by a sneaky malware operation, which used a clever trick, making it virtually invisible, while hijacking hardware resources on infected machines to mine cryptocurrency. The malware has been distributed in the wild since at lea... Read more
3 years ago
Microsoft’s latest monthly security patches came out on Patch Tuesday, with the fix for Defender’s zero-day included. January's updates patch a total of 83 vulnerabilities, spread out over a wide range of Microsoft's products. They include cloud-based offerings, the Windows OS, Enterprise Serve... Read more
3 years ago
The malware authors the WiFi AP MAC address (aka BSSID) to geo-locate the systems they have infected. Malware operators who want to know the location of their victims usually rely on a simple technique to determine the infected system's location. They simply grab the victim's IP address and che... Read more
3 years ago
Researchers say that around 3 million people worldwide have been affected. Threat Intelligence researchers from Avast this week announced that they have found 28 extensions for the Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers that contain malware. According to Avast, the add-ons presented thems... Read more
3 years ago
