Malware

JenX botnet leverages Grand Theft Auto videogame community to infect devices

Researchers at security firm Radware have spotted a new IoT botnet, dubbed JenX, the leverages the Grand Theft Auto videogame community…

8 years ago

Chinese Iron Tiger APT is back, a close look at the Operation PZChao

Chinese Iron Tiger APT is back, the new campaign, dubbed by Operation PZChao is targeting government, technology, education, and telecommunications…

8 years ago

DDG, the second largest mining botnet targets Redis and OrientDB servers

Researchers at Qihoo 360's Netlab analyzed a new campaign powered by the DDG botnet, the second largest mining botnet of…

8 years ago

WannaMine, the sophisticated crypto miner that spreads via NSA EternalBlue exploit

Researchers from security firm CrowdStrike spotted a new Monero crypto-mining worm dubbed WannaMine that spreads leveraging the NSA-linked EternalBlue exploit. This morning…

8 years ago

Mining Smominru botnet used NSA exploit to infect more than 526,000 systems

Researchers from Proofpoint discovered a huge botnet dubbed 'Smominru' that is using the EternalBlue exploit to infect Windows computers and recruit them…

8 years ago

Malware exploiting Spectre and Meltdown flaws are currently based on available PoC

Malware Exploiting Spectre, Meltdown Flaws Emerges Researchers at the antivirus testing firm AV-TEST have discovered more than 130 samples of…

8 years ago

Cybercriminals Stealing From Cybercriminals Ransomware Victims Left Stranded

What do you get when you add Bitcoin, with a TOR network proxy and cybercriminals? Even more cybercrime! Bitcoin is…

8 years ago

Crooks target ATMs with Ploutus-D malware, these are the first confirmed cases of Jackpotting in US

Cybercriminals are targeting ATM machines in the US forcing them to spit out hundreds of dollars with 'jackpotting' attacks. According…

8 years ago

Dridex banking Trojan and the FriedEx ransomware were developed by the same group

Security researchers from ESET have tied another family of ransomware, dubbed FriedEx (aka BitPaymer), to the authors of the Dridex Trojan. The…

8 years ago

A new report from MALWAREBYTES reveals a rise of 90% on ransomware detection in business

A new report from MALWAREBYTES titled "Malwarebytes Annual State of Malware Report" reveals a rise of 90% on ransomware detection…

8 years ago

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