Here you will find all the articles with the tag: malware.
The ransomware Sodin uses a zero day leak in Windows to obtain access rights to infected systems. In addition, it uses the CPU architecture to prevent detection. According to Kaspersky researchers, this is hardly ever the case with ransomware. The Sodin malware is a Ransomware-as-a-Service, which me... Read more
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The number of destructive malware attacks doubled in the first half of 2019 compared to the second half of 2018. The largest growth can be seen in ransomware in combination with so-called wiper elements. This segment grew by no less than 116 percent since January of this year. While not all ranso... Read more
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Researchers at security company Proofpoint have found new malware that focuses on Windows systems. The so-called SystemBC installs a proxy on an infected computer and tries to get other malware. SystemBC is an on-demand proxy component that other malware creators can integrate and deploy on affec... Read more
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Researchers from cybersecurity company Kaspersky have discovered that the number of cases of so-called 'hoax system cleaners' has doubled over the past year, according to the company to Techzine. In the first half of this year, 1,456,219 PC users worldwide, including the Dutch and Belgians, were aff... Read more
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The risk of exploiting BlueKeep, a vulnerability in the Windows remote desktop protocol (RDP), has increased significantly. This is because an online manual has been published on how to effectively exploit this vulnerability. A security researcher made the manual publicly available at GitHub in the... Read more
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Two out of every five companies have suffered (or have suffered) from theft of Microsoft Office 365 user data. This is despite the fact that 80 percent of the companies surveyed used more than just the standard Office security measures. Despite the fact that cloud-based services promise better data... Read more
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Australian cybersecurity researchers from Skylight Cyber have managed to mark an antivirus engine malware as safe, reports SiliconAngle. The discovery is not good news for cybersecurity companies that use AI as the basis for their product development. The method used by the researchers works by unde... Read more
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Researchers have discovered a new type of malware that creates false ad impressions to generate fraudulent ad revenues. In a few months, the malware created more than a billion false impressions, ZDNet knows. Last Wednesday, cyber security company Flashpoint reported that the malware has been resp... Read more
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Security company McAfee has issued a warning about a new Linux worm that attacks IoT devices such as tablets, wearables and multimedia players. This is a bricking worm, which is a type of malware that wants to render the infected system permanently unusable. The bricking worm called Silex was discov... Read more
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