Tag Archives: malware

Never-before-seen malware is nuking data in Russia’s courts and mayors’ offices

reader comments 65 with 0 posters participating Share this story Mayors’ offices and courts in Russia are under attack by never-before-seen malware that poses as ransomware but is actually a wiper that permanently destroys data on an infected system, according to security company Kaspersky and the Izvestia news service. Kaspersky researchers have named the wiper… Read More »

Feds say Ukrainian man running malware service amassed 50M unique credentials

Getty Images | Charles O’Rear reader comments 19 with 17 posters participating Share this story Federal prosecutors have charged a 26-year-old Ukrainian national with operating a malware service that was responsible for stealing sensitive data from more than 2 million individuals around the world. Prosecutors in Texas said on Tuesday that Mark Sokolovsky, 26, of… Read More »

Never-before-seen malware has infected hundreds of Linux and Windows devices

reader comments 29 with 26 posters participating Share this story Researchers have revealed a never-before-seen piece of cross-platform malware that has infected a wide range of Linux and Windows devices, including small office routers, FreeBSD boxes, and large enterprise servers. Black Lotus Labs, the research arm of security firm Lumen, is calling the malware Chaos,… Read More »

New Linux malware combines unusual stealth with a full suite of capabilities

reader comments 12 with 11 posters participating Share this story Researchers this week unveiled a new strain of Linux malware that’s notable for its stealth and sophistication in infecting both traditional servers and smaller Internet-of-things devices. Dubbed Shikitega by the AT&T Alien Labs researchers who discovered it, the malware is delivered through a multistage infection… Read More »

Organizations are spending billions on malware defense that’s easy to bypass

Getty Images / Aurich Lawson reader comments 48 with 44 posters participating Share this story Last year, organizations spent $2 billion on products that provide Endpoint Detection and Response, a relatively new type of security protection for detecting and blocking malware targeting network-connected devices. EDRs, as they’re commonly called, represent a newer approach to malware… Read More »

10 malicious Python packages exposed in latest repository attack

Enlarge / Supply-chain attacks, like the latest PyPi discovery, insert malicious code into seemingly functional software packages used by developers. They’re becoming increasingly common. (credit: Getty Images) Researchers have discovered yet another set of malicious packages in PyPi, the official and most popular repository for Python programs and code libraries. Those duped by the seemingly familiar… Read More »

Hackers are targeting industrial systems with malware

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) From the what-could-possibly-go-wrong files comes this: An industrial control engineer recently made a workstation part of a botnet after inadvertently installing malware advertising itself as a means for recovering lost passwords. Lost passwords happen in many organizations. A programmable logic controller—used to automate processes inside factories, electric plants, and other industrial… Read More »

Vulnerabilities allowing permanent infections affect 70 Lenovo laptop models

Enlarge (credit: Lenovo) For owners of more than 70 Lenovo laptop models, it’s time once again to patch the UEFI firmware against critical vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit to install malware that’s nearly impossible to detect or remove. The laptop maker on Tuesday released updates for three vulnerabilities that researchers found in the UEFI firmware… Read More »