A new Mirai variant is rapidly spreading, experts observed around 100K IPs running the scans in the past 60 hours searching for flawed ZyXEL PK5001Z routers. According to Li Fengpei, a security researcher with Qihoo 360 Netlab, the publication of the proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code in a public vulnerabilities database is the root cause of the […]
The Scarab ransomware is now being distributed to millions of users via a massive spam campaign powered with the dreaded Necurs botnet. Scarab is a strain of ransomware, first spotted in June by the security researcher Michael Gillespie, that is now being distributed to millions of users via a massive spam campaign powered with the dreaded Necurs […]
A new strain of the notorious macOS Proton malware is spreading through a blog spoofing the legitimate blog of the security firm Symantec. The attackers used the same domain registration information of the original site, except for the email address. The SSL digital certificate for the site is a legitimate certificate issued by Comodo instead of the […]
The North Korea linked group Lazarus APT has been using a new strain of Android malware to target smartphone users in South Korea. The hacking campaign was spotted by McAfee and Palo Alto Networks, both security firms attributed the attacks to the Hidden Cobra APT. The activity of the Lazarus APT Group surged in 2014 and 2015, its […]
Experts from several security firms has spotted two new malware campaigns targeting Google Play Store users, once of them spreads the BankBot Trojan. Once again crooks succeeded in publishing a malware in the official Google Play Store deceiving the anti-malware protections implemented by the tech giant. A team composed of security experts from several security […]
Experts from the firm Sucuri observed a new wave of wp-vcd malware attacks that is targeting WordPress sites leveraging flaws in outdated plugins and themes A new malware campaign is threatening WordPress installs, the malicious code tracked as wp-vcd hides in legitimate WordPress files and is used by attackers to add a secret admin user and […]
Malware researchers at MalwareHunterTeam discovered a new variant of the CryptoMix ransomware, the second one in just a few days. A new variant of the CryptoMix ransomware was recently discovered by the experts at the MalwareHunterTeam, it is the second release of new variants this week. The latest variant appends the. 0000 extension to encrypted files and uses new contact emails, for example, […]
Security experts at Trend Micro had recently observed a new variant of the EMOTET banking Trojan that implements new evasion features. EMOTET, aka Geodo, is linked to the dreaded Dridex and Feodo (Cridex, Bugat) malware families. In past campaigns, EMOTET was used by crooks to steal banking credentials and as a malicious payload downloader. The experts observed […]
In early November, the City of Spring Hill, Tenn, suffered a ransomware attack, but it still hasn’t recovered from attack attack. In early November, the City of Spring Hill, Tenn, suffered a ransomware attack, but government officials refused to pay a $250,000 ransom demanded by the crooks and attempted to restore the database recovering the content […]
Kaspersky Lab publishes a full technical report related to hack of its antivirus software to steal NSA hacking code. In October, anonymous source claimed that in 2015 the Russian intelligence stole NSA cyber weapons from the PC of one of its employees that was running the Kaspersky antivirus. Kaspersky denies any direct involvement and provided further details […]