malware

Selfie Stealing Android Trojan Discovered By McAfee Labs

Tweaked Acecard trojan aims to trick gullible Android users into sending selfies and photos of their IDs

8 years ago

Banks ‘Under-Reporting Cyber Attacks’ Say Security Firms

Banks are not providing enough details on cyber-attacks in order to downplay security fears, say insiders

8 years ago

Symantec Spots Student Scam Powered By Ascesso Trojan

Scammers are trying to trick students into paying for application to the US student loan forgiveness programme

8 years ago

Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Tackles Multiple Zero-Day Flaws

Internet Explorer among usual suspects to get updates, that includes a fix for AdGholas malvertising campaign

8 years ago

Cyber Criminals Using Odinaff Trojan To Infiltrate Bank Systems

Symantec has discovered a trojan capable of hiding in the networks of financial institutions

8 years ago

Spotify: Malware Pop-ups Affected ‘Small Numbers’

Music service fixes the problem that displayed virus laden websites for “small numbers of users”

8 years ago

Turkey, Italy And Hungary Riddled With Botnets Finds Norton Research

Botnets hop on high-speed city infrastructure to fire malware, spam and other threats across the Internet

8 years ago

Energy Sector Is A ‘Prime Target’ For Cyber Attacks

Cyber attacks against energy companies have risen massively, with the industry a prime target for attackers

8 years ago

Malicious Android Apps Due To Increase By 400 Percent In 2016

Webroot's threat intelligence data identifies Asian countries as a hotbed of malicious IP addresses

8 years ago

Android Scam Call And SMS Security Is Undone By HTML Exploiting Malware

Android's built-in protection which flags warnings about apps trying to send premium rate messages without user consent can be manipulated…

8 years ago

Google Pulls Four Overseer Spyware Infected Apps From The Play Store

The spyware harvested user and device data from infected Android smartphones

8 years ago

FBI: Ransomware Targeting Business Servers

Ransomware attacks have quadrupled in frequency since last year, US officials say

8 years ago

Ransomware Forces Hospitals To Payout $100,000 To Cyber Criminals

Intel Security cyber threat data idetifies the legacy IT of hospital as vulnerable to hackers

8 years ago

Google Play CallJam Malware Infects Half A Million Users

The CallJam malware achieved a high ranking through deception while raking in funds through premium-rate calls

8 years ago

Ransomware ‘Nearly Half Of All Cloud Malware’

Nearly half of all malware found in enterprise cloud applications is now ransomware, according to new figures

8 years ago

Inteno Router Flaw Opens Up Home Networks To Hackers

F-Secure has discovered a critical flaw in the way some Inteno routers update their firmware leaving them vulnerable to malware

8 years ago

Ransomware, Malware Threats Rise in Second Quarter

The Quick Heal report outlines the top malware afflicting Windows and Android users, with a brief low-down on each of…

8 years ago

Iran Removes Malware From Petrochemical Plants – Report

Iran takes 'necessary defensive measures' after malware is discovered at two of its petrochemical plants

8 years ago

Researchers Warn Of ‘Epidemic’ Money-Flipping Malware On Instagram

Bank followers on Instagram beware of money-flipping 'epidemic', but photo-sharing platform says scams are "low volume"

8 years ago

Security Researchers Discover First Twitter-Controlled Botnet

Twitoor, uncovered by ESET, can plague Android devices with malicious malware

8 years ago

Ransomware Spammers Turn To Ads For Cash

This year's biggest Trojan malware has turned from spreading ransomware to spreading an ad-clicking backdoor

8 years ago

State Of Ransomware: More Than Half Of UK Firms Are Victims

Crippling threat...20 percent of firms hit by ransomware had to cease business operations

8 years ago

Experiment Finds Half Of ‘Lost’ USB Sticks Will Be Plugged In

BLACK HAT 2016: Experiment shows that most half of people will plug a randomly placed USB stick into their computer,…

8 years ago

Cyber Attack Uses Google Drive To Deliver 9002 Trojan

Hackers use Google Drive to host malicious files that seems to be targeting a number of Asian countries

8 years ago

Stampado Ransomware Starts Deleting Files If No Payment Is Made

The clock is ticking. Ransomware victims have just 96 hours to cough up or it begins deleting files

8 years ago

Ranscam Malware Poses As Ransomware But Just Deletes Your Files

Malware dubbed 'ranscam' asks for payment to unlock files, but in reality has already deleted them

8 years ago

Android Malware Grabs 10 Million Devices

The malware, thought to originate in China, generates £232,000 per month in counterfeit ad revenues

8 years ago

Apple Mac Malware Gives Backdoor Access And Webcam Control

Malware targets OS X and gives attackers webcam access via Tor and full access of compromised Mac

8 years ago