TechSpot

APRIL 26, 2023

The Gootloader malware originated from the Gootkit banking trojan, which has been active against European targets since 2010. The malicious operation allows third-party criminals to put their malware (especially ransomware) into a compromised network. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

APRIL 5, 2023

Alarmingly, the malware even evaded detection from all vendors on VirusTotal. Read Entire Article A cybersecurity researcher claims to have used ChatGPT to develop a zero-day exploit that can steal data from a compromised device.

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TechSpot

MAY 12, 2023

Last month, we learned that malware had been discovered in 60 Android apps with over 100 million downloads – another black eye for the mobile operating system that has an estimated three billion active users worldwide. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

AUGUST 8, 2023

The Google Cybersecurity Action Team (GCAT) notes in this month's Threat Horizons report that Google Play continues to have a known malware problem. Malicious app developers have been using "versioning" to upload malware to seemingly innocuous apps. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

JANUARY 31, 2024

Security analytics firm Mandiant recently uncovered a "never-before-seen" attack chain that used Base 64 encoding on at least two different websites to deliver the second-stage payload of a three-stage malware. Read Entire Article The two sites were tech publication Ars Technica and video hosting site Vimeo.

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TechSpot

MARCH 14, 2023

CloudSEK, a contextual AI company that predicts cyberthreats, writes that since November 2022, there has been a 200-300% month-on-month increase in YouTube videos containing links to stealer malware, including Vidar, RedLine, and Raccoon. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

MAY 4, 2023

Facebook parent Meta published its latest threat research and technical analysis into persistent malware campaigns this week. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

APRIL 27, 2023

In the past 12 months alone, the malware infected approximately 670,000 computers, as the cyber-criminals behind it targeted users of. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Backdoor.Frebniis, or simply Frebniis, is a stealthy new malware discovered by Symantec researchers that leverages a vulnerability in IIS to put a backdoor into Windows web servers. Read Entire Article Unknown cyber-criminals have actively exploited targets in Taiwan. To infect a system, hackers first need access to an IIS server.

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TechSpot

APRIL 6, 2023

The eFile.com online platform recently got caught in this tax-related cybercrime resurgence, becoming a (likely) unaware spreader of malicious JavaScript files and malware. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Cybersecurity researchers at Pradeo regularly update an article identifying mobile applications available on the Google Play Store infected with Joker malware. The latest entry, which came yesterday, highlighted an app called Color Message.

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TechSpot

JULY 27, 2023

Additional digging and analysis seemed to confirm the malware was indeed a worm. Read Entire Article Late last month, a Steam user posted about hackers using MW2 game lobbies to spread a worm. Just yesterday, Activision took the multiplayer mode Modern Warfare 2 (Steam) offline to "investigate reports of an issue."

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

The video below explores DDP Protected Workspace and uniquely addresses healthcare regulations related to malware prevention. Individuals take malware and obtain the characteristics pertaining to the individual and find ways to get around the malware inspections in place. The malware is from external agents.

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Additionally, the malware lets the criminals use. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The use of Microsoft OneNote pages to disseminate malware to unwary users is increasing according to security experts. The researchers at Proofpoint claim they found six campaigns in December 2022 that used OneNote to distribute the AsyncRAT malware in a thorough study. Read Entire Article

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 24, 2023

This question arises amidst the constant battle against threats posed by malware. By tricking the malware into identifying the environment improperly, security professionals could outsmart self-termination mechanisms utilized by certain strains. Malware employs complex and sophisticated techniques to detect virtualized environments.

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TechSpot

MARCH 26, 2024

Read Entire Article The company boasts that the feature allows users to ask complex and more descriptive questions, with the generative AI providing text summaries of sites and recommendations related to a user's search.

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TechSpot

MARCH 12, 2023

Federal authorities in Los Angeles exercised a warrant to seize the worldwiredlabs.com web domain, which was used to sell and distribute the NetWire malware. Read Entire Article The successful effort to corner the RAT follows several years of investigation, observation, and planning by law enforcement agencies around the world.

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Gizmodo

JANUARY 8, 2022

Using friendly-looking USB sticks as a vector for malware distribution is a trick as old as the internet itself and, apparently, it’s still quite popular with the criminals. Read more.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The issue came to light after Jon Freeman from YouTube channel The Net Guy Reviews tested the AceMagic AD08 mini PC and discovered it contained files flagged by Windows Defender as malware. He alleges that other models marketed by AceMagic, including the AD15 and S1, also contain similar malware. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

MARCH 27, 2023

Google recently suspended e-commerce giant Pinduoduo's official Play store app and warned users that several of the company's other apps contain malware. Read Entire Article

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Computerworld Vertical IT

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Microsoft provides Windows users with two tools that offer malware scanning and repair services, should those scans turn up anything in need of fixing. To read this article in full, please click here (Insider Story) One is named MSRT; the other runs an executable called MSERT.

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The Verge

JULY 12, 2021

Microsoft says it’s gone door-to-door replacing routers compromised with the Trickbot malware in Brazil and Latin America, hoping to squash an international hacking group. The Daily Beast reported the detail in an article about the group, which is an ongoing target for US Cyber Command as well as information security companies like Microsoft.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 21, 2022

A new version of the Android malware "FurBall" has been discovered to be used by the threat actor(s) known as Domestic Kitten in a campaign targeting Iranian citizens in a mobile surveillance operation. Though it has the Google Play logo, the app is not available in the Google Play store and downloads directly from Domestic Kitten's server.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Compared with their laptop and desktop ancestors, they make it far more difficult to check that URLs are proper, that SPAM/malware texts/emails don’t get opened and that emlpoyees follow the minimal cybersecurity precautions IT asks. To read this article in full, please click here

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Network World

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Once Google published its findings for the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities in CPUs, the bad guys used that as a roadmap to create their malware. And so far, researchers have found more than 130 malware samples designed to exploit Spectre and Meltdown. To read this article in full, please click here It was inevitable.

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TechSpot

MARCH 29, 2024

A person with knowledge of the hacking incidents told TechCrunch that people at Activision Blizzard are currently investigating the matter, trying to help remove the malware while working on identifying and remediating player accounts for everyone affected. Read Entire Article

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Network World

JUNE 13, 2017

Two security firms have released reports about the malware which was used in the December 2016 Ukraine power outage, warning that the partial power outage in Kiev may have been test run; the malware could be leveraged against other countries, including the US. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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TechSpot

AUGUST 21, 2023

Read Entire Article Pixel phone and tablet owners can now use Google's Pixel Binary Transparency to ensure their firmware matches trusted installation data. The feature comes in response to the rising frequency of hackers tampering with software on Android devices before they reach customers.

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TechSpot

MARCH 15, 2024

Read Entire Article Chrome typically updates the list every 30 to 60 minutes. Unfortunately, that wasn't enough to thoroughly protect all users since the average malicious site exists.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 31, 2023

Read Entire Article The Verge's Tom Warren was one of those who feared his PC had been infected when a pop-up appeared asking him to switch his default search engine to Microsoft Bing in Chrome.

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TechSpot

JUNE 8, 2023

Read Entire Article The modding community that has grown around the game has expanded on the vanilla experience in many ways, from enhancing the visuals to tweaking gameplay mechanics or building entirely.

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TechSpot

MARCH 10, 2023

Read Entire Article The unknown actors behind the campaign are likely Chinese and working to benefit the Communist dictatorship, the analysts say, and the group is currently tracked as UNC4540.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Read Entire Article Google has announced it's powering up Google Play Protect to enhance its threat detection capabilities with real-time app scanning. This update comes in response to the increasing threats exploiting malicious apps outside the Google Play Store.

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TechSpot

JULY 14, 2023

Read Entire Article Script kiddies and other less competent cyber-criminals can now have a peek at the heart of the beast: the source code of BlackLotus, the "invisible" UEFI bootkit capable of defeating the most advanced security features of a fully updated Windows installation, has been uploaded to GitHub by an unknown user.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Palo Alto Networks has released next-generation firewall (NGFW) software that includes some 50 new features aimed at helping enterprise organizations battle zero-day threats and advanced malware attacks. WildFire is Palo Alto’s on-prem or cloud-based malware sandbox that is closely integrated with Palo Alto’s firewalls.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Cloud repositories are actively supplying malware, according to computer experts. It’s “challenging to find,” Georgia Tech writes in an article on its website. The problem being that the resulting malware is quick to “assemble from stored components that individually may not appear to be malicious.”

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