reader comments 81 with 40 posters participating Share this story Hackers have compromised more than 120 ad servers over the past year in an ongoing campaign that displays malicious advertisements on tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions, of devices as they visit sites that, by all outward appearances, are benign. Malvertising is the… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 15 with 13 posters participating Share this story A newly discovered cryptomining worm is stepping up its targeting of Windows and Linux devices with a batch of new exploits and capabilities, a researcher said. Research company Juniper started monitoring what it’s calling the Sysrv botnet in December. One of the botnet’s… Read More »
reader comments 32 with 26 posters participating Share this story Criminals have been hiding malware inside publicly available software that purports to be a cheat for Activision’s Call of Duty: Warzone, researchers with the game maker warned earlier this week. Cheats are programs that tamper with in-game events or player interactions so that users gain… Read More »
reader comments 56 with 32 posters participating Share this story Tens of thousands of US-based organizations are running Microsoft Exchange servers that have been backdoored by threat actors who are stealing administrator passwords and exploiting critical vulnerabilities in the email and calendaring application, it was widely reported. Microsoft issued emergency patches on Tuesday, but they… Read More »
reader comments 50 with 37 posters participating Share this story A new type of supply chain attack unveiled last month is targeting more and more companies, with new rounds this week taking aim at Microsoft, Amazon, Slack, Lyft, Zillow, and an unknown number of others. In weeks past, Apple, Microsoft, Tesla, and 32 other companies… Read More »
reader comments 121 with 87 posters participating, including story author Share this story A previously undetected piece of malware found on almost 30,000 Macs worldwide is generating intrigue in security circles, which are still trying to understand precisely what it does and what purpose its self-destruct capability serves. Once an hour, infected Macs check a… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 37 with 29 posters participating Share this story Last week, a researcher demonstrated a new supply-chain attack that executed counterfeit code on networks belonging to some of the biggest companies on the planet, Apple, Microsoft, and Tesla included. Now, fellow researchers are peppering the Internet with copycat packages, with more than… Read More »
reader comments 49 with 37 posters participating, including story author Share this story A benign barcode scanner with more than 10 million downloads from Google Play has been caught receiving an upgrade that turned it to the dark side, prompting the search-and-advertising giant to remove it. Barcode Scanner, one of dozens of such apps available… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 33 with 29 posters participating Share this story High-performance computer networks, some belonging to the world’s most prominent organizations, are under attack by a newly discovered backdoor that gives hackers the ability to remotely execute commands of their choice, researchers said on Tuesday. Kobalos, as researchers from security firm Eset have… Read More »
Enlarge / Circuit board with speed motion and light. reader comments 2 with 2 posters participating Share this story Researchers have uncovered a software supply chain attack that is being used to install surveillance malware on the computers of online gamers. The unknown attackers are targeting select users of NoxPlayer, a software package that emulates… Read More »