Malware

Digital Trends From pranks to nuclear sabotage, this is the history of malwareDigital TrendsSince the dawn of modern computing, software has been as capable as the programmers who created it. Their intentions became its capabilities, and that’s brought us a world of wondrous and powerful applications across a wide variety …

EnSilo’s endpoint security platform protected Red Bull from the WannaCry ransomware attack last year — and helps Jimmy Heschl, the energy drink maker’s head of digital security, sleep at night. “Always the key metric is good sleep-ablity, so I can sleep better,” he said. “And malware, that’s really a pain …

AutoHotKey has now become one of the most trendy technologies for building malware, according to several reports put out by cyber-security firms and insights Bleeping Computer received from malware experts. AutoHotKey, or AHK, is an open-source scripting language developed for the Microsoft Windows operating system back in 2003. AHK was …

Cybersecurity researchers from FireEye have posted a report to their blog detailing a new delivery method for SANNY malware. The SANNY threat was first tracked by FireEye in 2012, and it has since been used to collect the personal information of “English and Russian-language diplomatic victims,” as reported by ThreatPost. …

Enlarge / Ransomware took Baltimore’s 911 system offline on March 24 and 25 as the city’s IT department worked to isolate and restore the computer-assisted dispatch network. Last Friday, the City of Atlanta was struck by a ransomware attack that took much of the city’s internal and external services offline. …

Axios Boeing says reports about malware disruption are “inaccurate”AxiosA logo of Boeing at the MAKS-2017 International Aviation and Space Salon. Photo: Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency / Getty Images. The vice president of Aircraft builder Boeing on Wednesday told Engadget that earlier published reports saying the company was … Source link

Trend Micro security experts have warned users today about a new type of Android malware that infects devices and untetheredly mines Monero in the phone’s background until the battery is exhausted or the device gives out. Called HiddenMiner, this malware has been spotted inside apps distributed via third-party stores. Researchers …

Anti-Malware , Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service $1 Billion in Losses Tied to Gang Wielding Carbanak and Cobalt Malware Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • March 27, 2018     A Spanish National Police van. (Photo: Contando Estrelas via Wikemedia/CC) The alleged leader of a cybercrime gang tied to more than $1 …

In a world where the internet is already part of our daily lives, and our computers store most of our personal information, more than ever, we’re quickly becoming targets of malicious actors. As a result, if you don’t take the necessary steps to protect your device and data, you’ll be …

Security experts have discovered a new strain of malware that targets vulnerable Linux-based systems and tries its best to avoid infecting devices on government and military networks. The name of this new strain is GoScanSSH, and its name is a tell-tale sign of its main features and capabilities — coded …