Here you will find all the articles with the tag: malware.
TrickBot, the malware discovered in 2016, has collected the passwords and address books of 250 million e-mail addresses. Investigators from security company Deep Instinct have found that, reports TechCrunch. TrickBot was originally a financially motivated malware that was first spotted in 2016. Sinc... Read more
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The number of variants of the Emotet malware is experiencing explosive growth, as discovered by security company G DATA. The malware was still aimed at financial institutions when it was discovered in 2014, but is now widely used for industrial espionage, for example. Emotet is one of the most destr... Read more
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Check Point security researchers have discovered a new malware called Agent Smith. The malware, disguised as a Google-related application, has infected more than 25 million devices worldwide, of which 15 million in India alone. Agent Smith replaces automatically installed apps with malicious version... Read more
5 years ago
Officials from Lake City in the state of Florida dismissed an IT employee after the city was forced to approve a large ransom demand due to a ransomware attack. Almost $500,000 was paid. The employee was fired last Friday, writes ZDNet. The city's IT manager also wants to modify the entire city's IT... Read more
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Microsoft warns of a malware that uses Office features to compromise Windows systems. The malware does not take advantage of a bug in the software, but uses malicious macro features in an Excel attachment to compromise fully patched Windows PCs. According to Microsoft's Security Intelligence team, a... Read more
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The city council of Riviera Beach, a city in the American state of Florida, has decided to pay a ransomware group $600,000. In this way, the city council hopes to recover data that was encrypted in an attack three weeks ago. On 29 May, an employee of the police in Riviera Beach opened an e-mail, wh... Read more
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Chronicle security researchers have discovered a Linux version of Winnti malware for the first time. According to Alphabet's cyber security division, the Linux version acts as a backdoor for infected hosts, giving attackers access to compromised systems. The Linux version would be very similar to th... Read more
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A successful family of ransomware called Dharma is now trying to infect victims by posing as anti-virus software. Specifically, the malware presents itself as an old version of security company ESET. Dharma first appeared in 2016 and is responsible for several major incidents, including the encrypt... Read more
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A botnet used to steal money from the Electrum bitcoin wallet network continues to grow. According to researchers, at its peak, it passed over 150,000 hosts. A total of $4.6 million has now been stolen from victims. The botnet was first discovered on 8 April, writes Silicon Angle. This is a new vari... Read more
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A new form of cryptomining malware uses hacking codes from the US National Security Agency (NSA). The malware is spreading rapidly throughout Asia, writes Silicon Angle. Symantec security researchers discovered the malware last week and called it Beapy. Beapy mainly focuses on enterprise networks. M... Read more
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