Dmitry Nogaev | Getty Images reader comments 13 with 12 posters participating Share this story Google has warned it has uncovered an “ongoing” state-backed hacking campaign run by North Korea targeting cyber security researchers. The Silicon Valley group said its threat analysis team found that cyber attackers posing as researchers had created numerous fake social… Read More »
reader comments 25 with 16 posters participating Share this story The malware used to hack Microsoft, security company FireEye, and at least a half-dozen federal agencies has “interesting similarities” to malicious software that has been circulating since at least 2015, researchers said on Monday. Sunburst is the name security researchers have given to malware that… Read More »
reader comments 33 with 22 posters participating Share this story As many as 3 million people have been infected by Chrome and Edge browser extensions that steal personal data and redirect users to ad or phishing sites, a security firm said on Wednesday. In all, researchers from Prague-based Avast said they found 28 extensions for… Read More »
reader comments 67 with 51 posters participating, including story author Share this story An ongoing malware campaign is blasting the Internet with malware that neuters the security of Web browsers, adds malicious browser extensions, and makes other changes to users’ computers, Microsoft said on Thursday. Adrozek, as the software maker has dubbed the malware family,… Read More »
reader comments 97 with 68 posters participating Share this story One of the Internet’s most aggressive threats has just gotten meaner, with the ability to infect one of the most critical parts of any modern-day computer. Trickbot is a piece of malware that’s notable for its advanced capabilities. Its modular framework excels at gaining powerful… Read More »
Milana Romazanova | Getty Images reader comments 8 with 6 posters participating Share this story Though ransomware has been around for years, it poses an ever-increasing threat to hospitals, municipal governments, and basically any institution that can’t tolerate downtime. But along with the various types of PC malware that are typically used in these attacks,… Read More »
reader comments 0 with 0 posters participating Share this story The malware known as Emotet has emerged as “one of the most prevalent ongoing threats” as it increasingly targets state and local governments and infects them with other malware, the cybersecurity arm of the Department of Homeland Security said on Tuesday. Emotet was first identified… Read More »
sasha85ru | Getty Imates reader comments 29 with 25 posters participating Share this story For only the second time in the annals of cybersecurity, researchers have found real-world malware lurking in the UEFI, the low-level and highly opaque firmware required to boot up nearly every modern computer. As software that bridges a PC’s device firmware… Read More »
reader comments 118 with 60 posters participating Share this story September has been a busy month for malicious Android apps, with dozens of them from a single malware family alone flooding either Google Play or third-party markets, researchers from security companies said. Known as Joker, this family of malicious apps has been attacking Android users… Read More »