ESET researchers have found a large campaign of malicious porn clicker type apps on Google Play. These trojans belong to a single family of malicious apps masquerading as popular games and/or applications. They are designed and systematically modified to bypass Google’s security checks.
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A group of security companies today published evidence linking the Sony hack, Dark Seoul and Operation Troy to the Lazarus Group.
Exploits targeting a patched Silverlight vulnerability have found their way into the Angler Exploit Kit and victims are being hit with TeslaCrypt ransomware.
The IRS warns businesses and consumers about a significant increase in tax-related phishing and malware attacks.
Trojan clicker servers Google Play information Package names of trojan clickers found on the infected servers
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The source code of a recently discovered Android banking Trojan that has the capability to gain administrator access on your smartphone and completely erase your phone’s storage has been LEAKED online.
The banking Trojan family is known by several names; Security researchers from FireEye dubbed it SlemBunk, Symantec dubbed it Bankosy, and last week when Heimdal Security uncovered it, they
We don’t know if you’ve heard of the new Cryptolocker which is called ‘Locky’…
It works as follows:
In fact, if we suspect that we have been attacked by Locky we can look for one of these files in our computer – if they’re there, then we know Locky has paid us a visit:
When the Word document that started the infection is opened, it downloads Locky, and what we have seen is that in all cases the malware comes from a legal website which has been compromised. It is there that the malware is stored. These are some of the URLs hosting malware:
The email that it comes attached in is the following:
In this case, the attached Word is called invoice_J-67870889.doc
Some of the variants that we have seen used PowerShell to carry out the downloading and running of Locky from the macro, with the rest of it being the same.
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Are you also the one who downloaded Linux Mint on February 20th? You may have been Infected!
Linux Mint is one of the best and popular Linux distros available today, but if you have downloaded and installed the operating system recently you might have done so using a malicious ISO image.
Here’s why:
Last night, Some unknown hacker or group of hackers had managed to hack into the
Joomla is the newest prey of attackers behind a campaign that has targeted WordPress websites by injecting JavaScript files with malicious code.
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the week in news, including the iPhone encryption debacle, the glibc Linux vulnerability, and the latest ransomware headlines.