Here you will find all the articles with the tag: malware.
A series of attacks with the malware Shamoon seems to have originated in an Iranian hacker group. The McAfee Advanced Threat Research Team states that APT33 - or a group pretending to be the Iranian hacker group of the same name - is responsible for a recent series of attacks against industries in E... Read more
4 years ago
The digital underworld generated 480 new threats per minute in the third quarter of 2018. That's what the new McAfee Labs Threats Report of December this year says. Malware for the Internet of Things (IoT) increased by 73 percent, malware for cryptographic currency mines by 71 percent. "Cybercrimin... Read more
4 years ago
Microsoft has launched a new challenge for data scientists on the crowdsourcing site Kaggle. Participants can win $25,000 by creating an algorithm that can predict which types of Windows computers are most likely to be infected with malware in the short term, reports ZDNet. The competition is held b... Read more
4 years ago
A hacker group uses a new type of trojans to attack telecom providers and information technology companies, as well as government organizations. The malware has been named Seedworm and has been active since at least 2017. Seedworm seems to be primarily aimed at infecting organisations in the Middle ... Read more
4 years ago
Trend Micro researchers state that new macro downloaders are using Microsoft Publisher (PUB) files and spam mails to hack into the network of companies in the food and retail sectors. Last month, more than 50 companies from these sectors were involved in the campaign. These include Starbucks and Har... Read more
4 years ago
Sophos researchers have found 22 apps with over 2 million downloads from the Google Play Store that contain a backdoor. The back door allowed attackers to download files to the phone from their own server. That's what Ars Technica reports. These include Sparkle Flashlight. This is a flashlight app w... Read more
4 years ago
Security company ESET has announced that it has discovered 21 new Linux-based malware families. All families work in the same way: as a trojan version of the OpenSSH client. That's what ZDNet reports. The families managed to stay under the radar for four years. The reason for this is that Linux is s... Read more
4 years ago
Kaspersky Lab has lost an important lawsuit. The American Court of Appeals finds that the decision of the American government to prohibit the use of the software of the Russian cybersecurity firm by federal governments can be upheld. This leaves an earlier decision of the district court. In 2017, K... Read more
4 years ago
In recent months, many Dutch companies have been affected by ransomware SamSam. Criminals ask a lot of ransom money to get equipment back: that ranges from tens of thousands of euros to several tons. Dozens of businesses have been affected by SamSam. That's what cyber security officer Fox-IT reports... Read more
4 years ago
For three years, ransomware attacks took place using the SamSam malware. The United States has now identified and charged the people behind this. But actually arresting them and sending them to prison will be complicated. According to the United States, two Iranian men are behind the SamSam-ransomwa... Read more
4 years ago
