Here you will find all the articles with the tag: malware.
Cryptojacking attacks, in which hackers steal processor power from victims to generate cryptic currency, increased by 450 percent last year. This is shown by new research from IBM X-Force, the research bureau of IBM. Ransomware attacks actually decreased in 2018. Wendi Whitmore, the head of the IBM... Read more
5 years ago
Security researchers have discovered that hackers are increasingly focusing on LinkedIn users. They offer them a job on the business social network by means of a private message, or draw their attention to a vacancy. But instead of a job, the users have to deal with a More_eggs infection on their co... Read more
5 years ago
New Android malware has been discovered that has a major impact on the battery of an infected device. The malware also uses a lot of mobile data to carry out advertising fraud. DrainerBot spreads through infected apps that have been downloaded millions of times. The new malware was discovered by Ora... Read more
5 years ago
For the third time, the Bitdefender team, together with the Romanian police and Europol, have released a free decrypter to help victims of the GandCrab-ransomware decrypt their documents. This in turn helps a lot of people who are unexpectedly victims of the ransomware. The latest version of the Bit... Read more
5 years ago
Symantec security researchers have found about eight potentially unwanted applications in the Microsoft Store that use a victim's computer to mine cryptic currency. That's what IT Pro says. The apps set include battery and computer optimization. They also act as search engines and browsers. These in... Read more
5 years ago
The Emotet Trojan, who worked as a thorn in the heel of financial institutions, is back. This time with new techniques and a sharp increase in the number of attacks. Menlo Security researchers report that Emotet attacks have increased significantly since mid-January and that the malware is infecting... Read more
5 years ago
Malware developers are looking for new ways to infect Mac users with .exe files. They normally only work on Windows devices, but according to Trend Micro security researchers, hackers are trying to find ways to change that. Trend Micro researchers looked at an app on a torrent site that would instal... Read more
5 years ago
The fear of many IT specialists around containers is that an attacker could succeed in infecting a container with malware. That malware could then spread and attack the entire host system. Now this fear does not appear to be unfounded and researchers have found a vulnerability that makes this possib... Read more
5 years ago
Hackers have developed a new backdoor trojan that can run on Linux systems. The malware is called SpeakUp and currently focuses mainly on Linux servers located in China. The hackers behind this series of attacks use the ThinkPHP framework to infect servers. Once the trojan gets a foothold in one of ... Read more
5 years ago
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 security researchers have discovered a new type of malware designed to steal cryptographic currency. CookieMiner focuses specifically on MacBooks and the cookies associated with their login details for crypto fairs such as Binance, Bitstamp, Bittrex and Coinbase. The new m... Read more
5 years ago
