Malware

Hacking the hackers – IOT botnet author adds his own backdoor on top of a ZTE router backdoor

The author of an IoT botnet is distributing a backdoor script for ZTE routers that also includes his own backdoor…

7 years ago

Reading the Android Ecosystem Security Transparency Report

According to Android Ecosystem Security Transparency Report the number of potentially harmful applications has fallen from 0.66% in Lollipop to…

7 years ago

Linux Cryptocurrency miner leverages rootkit to avoid detection

Researchers from Trend Micro spotted a new cryptocurrency miner that leverages a rootkit component to hide its presence on the…

7 years ago

Symantec shared details of North Korean Lazarus’s FastCash Trojan used to hack banks

North Korea-linked Lazarus Group has been using FastCash Trojan to compromise AIX servers to empty tens of millions of dollars…

7 years ago

BCMPUPnP_Hunter Botnet infected 400k routers to turn them in email spammers

Security researchers at 360 Netlab have discovered a new spam botnet, dubbed BCMPUPnP_Hunter, that likely already infected around 400,000 machines to date.…

7 years ago

Shellbot Botnet Targets IoT devices and Linux servers

Security experts at Trend Micro have spotted an IRC bot dubbed Shellbot that was built using Perl Shellbot. The malware was distributed…

7 years ago

USB drives are primary vector for destructive threats to industrial facilities

USB removable storage devices are the main vector for malware attacks against industrial facilities, states Honeywell report. According to a report published…

7 years ago

Security Affairs newsletter Round 187 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me…

7 years ago

Kraken ransomware 2.0 is available through the RaaS model

The author of the infamous Kraken ransomware has released a new version of the malicious code and launched a RaaS…

7 years ago

SamSam ransomware continues to make damages. Call it targeted Ransomware

According to the Symantec experts, the group behind the SamSam ransomware has continued to launch attacks against organizations during 2018. Security…

7 years ago

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