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Pierluigi Paganini September 19, 2024
Antivirus firm Dr.Web disconnected all servers following a cyberattack

Russian anti-virus firm Doctor Web (Dr.Web) disconnected all servers following a cyberattack over the weekend. This week, the Russian anti-malware firm Doctor Web (Dr.Web) announced that it had disconnected all servers following a cyberattack on Saturday, September 14. The company revealed it has detected “signs of unauthorised interference” to its IT infrastructure. The company pointed […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 08, 2017
Researchers at Dr Web spotted a Windows version of the Mirai bot

Researchers at the antivirus firm Dr.Web discovered a new strain of the Mirai bot, a Windows variant, targeting more ports. Security experts at the antivirus firm Dr.Web discovered a new strain of the Mirai bot targeting more ports, and it is a Windows version of the popular IoT malware. The Windows version of the Mirai bot […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 01, 2016
Dozens of games infected with Xiny available on the Google Play

Experts at Dr Web discovered dozens of Android game apps in the Google Play Store have been infected with the Android.Xiny Trojan. Bad news for Android users, according to the security Doctor Web firm dozens of game apps in the Google Play Store have been infected with the Android.Xiny.19.origin Trojan. The malware could allow attackers to control the victim’s […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 18, 2015
MWZLesson POS Trojan borrows code from other malware

Security experts at Doctor Web have discovered a new PoS Trojan dubbed MWZLesson that borrows code from other popular malicious software. Security experts at Dr. Web have discovered a new PoS Trojan that was designed by mixing code from other malware. The new PoS Trojan, dubbed Trojan.MWZLesson, was designed reusing the code of other popular malware, including the Dexter PoS […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 01, 2014
The case of Linux DDoS Trojan ported to Windows

Experts at Dr.Web detected a Linux DDoS Trojan designed to infect also Windows OS, the circumstance is considered rare in the criminal ecosystem. The Russian antivirus company Dr. Web discovered that a Chinese DDoS Trojan written for Linux operating system seems have jumped to Windows, an event considered rare. “Cases of Linux malware being tailored by […]