Most often exploit the coronavirus pandemic topic AgentTesla, NetWire and LokiBot malware
Group-IB experts found out which malware most often exploits the COVID-19 theme in its phishing mailings. Almost 65% of the malicious emails intercepted by...
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News · April 9, 2020
New Dark Nexus IoT botnet is designed for DDoS attacks
Bitdefender experts have discovered a new Dark Nexus IoT botnet that is designed for on attacks Dasan Zhone, DLink and ASUS routers, as well...
News · April 8, 2020
Experts figured out why the xHelper Trojan is considered “unkillable”
Kaspersky Lab experts published a report on malware for Android xHelper. Researchers have found out why the xHelper trojan is considered “unkillable” and what...
News · April 7, 2020
Microsoft experts told how Emotet turned off the city network in the USA
Microsoft experts said that during one of the malicious campaigns, Emotet malware turned off the computer network of “one of the organizations.” Information security...
News · April 6, 2020
Mozilla Firefox developers fixed two 0-day vulnerabilities
Mozilla developers released an updated version of Firefox 74.0.1, where they fixed two fresh 0-day vulnerabilities that hackers had already exploited. All users are...
News · April 3, 2020
LimeRAT Malware Uses Old Password for XLS Files by Default
Mimecast experts discovered the activity of the malware LimeRAT, which uses the old password for XLS files, and can also install backdoors on infected...
News · April 2, 2020
Mining botnet Vollgar bruteforced Microsoft SQL servers for two years
Guardicore experts discovered the Vollgar mining botnet, which bruteforced Microsoft SQL databases to take control of the administrator account, seize the server and install...
News · April 1, 2020
From Zoom app removed a code that allowed Facebook tracking users
Journalists from Vice Motherboard found that after updating the Zoom application for iOS last week, it began to transfer data about Facebook users, even...
News · March 31, 2020
Zeus Sphinx operators resumed activities during pandemic
After many years of silence, malware operators Zeus Sphinx (also known as Zloader or Terdot) resumed their activities in order to benefit from a...
News · March 30, 2020
Temporary patches arrived for 0-day vulnerabilities in the atmfd.dll library
Last week, were discovered two 0-day vulnerabilities as part of the Adobe Type Manager Library (atmfd.dll), which are already under attack by hackers. Now...
News · March 27, 2020
Even during a pandemic, Ryuk ransomware attacks hospitals
Ryuk ransomware operators do not seem to care about human values and lives, as according to information security experts, they continue to attack hospitals...
News · March 26, 2020
In addition to the Dridex Trojan and Locky ransomware, Evil Corp uses legitimate tools
Prevailion company warned that Russian hacker Evil Corp (aka TA505) is actively using legitimate tools (in addition to malware) to attack German companies. me...
