Data Security District Loses Dozens of Computers to Malware Attack By Dian Schaffhauser 12/12/19 An Oklahoma school system was the victim of a malware attack. According to local reporting, between 75 and 100 computers at Bixby Public Schools were brought down, primarily in the middle school and an …
Read More »Krampus malware drops on to iPhones during the holiday season – Gearbrain
Just in time for the holidays comes a malware named Krampus, the creature that punishes the bad children during the holiday season. The program is impacting iPhone users only — and actively seeking them — and appears to hijack those who visit specific online newspapers and weekly news magazines, with …
Read More »TrickBot gang is now a malware supplier for North Korean hackers – ZDNet
A report published today reveals that North Korea’s government-backed hacking units are renting access to elite hacking tools and access to hacked networks from the operators of the TrickBot botnet. The revelation comes to confirm a trend observed in recent years — namely that the lines between regular cybercrime and …
Read More »Windows, Chrome Zero-Days Chained in Operation WizardOpium Attacks – BleepingComputer
Zero-day vulnerabilities in Google Chrome and Microsoft Windows were used to download and install malware onto Windows computers that visited a Korean-language news portal. A zero-day vulnerability is one that is known, but not patched by the developers in charge of patching the vulnerability. These zero-day vulnerabilities are particularly dangerous as they can …
Read More »Windows 10 Warning: ‘Devious And Evil’ Malware Bypasses Security Software – Forbes
Microsoft Windows machines are at risk from a malware threat that can bypass antivirus protection ASSOCIATED PRESS Security researchers are investigating a particularly nasty piece of malware that can bypass Windows 10 security. The threat, which comprises not only a new variation of ransomware known as Snatch but also a …
Read More »TrickBot Trojan Abuses Google Suite, Baits With Annual Bonuses – BleepingComputer
A recently active malicious campaign baited targets with phishing messages promising annual bonuses, abusing Google Suite cloud services to infect them with Trickbot banking Trojan payloads. TrickBot (aka TrickLoader, Trickster, and TheTrick) is a modular information stealer regularly upgraded with new capabilities and modules since October 2016 when it was …
Read More »Anti-Malware Market Forecast Report Offers Key Insights to 2017 – 2027 – The Market Expedition
The report on the Anti-Malware Market published by Future Market Insights (FMI) provides a clear understanding of the flight of the Anti-Malware Market over the forecast period 2017 – 2027. The study introspects the various factors that are tipped to influence the growth of the Anti-Malware market in the upcoming …
Read More »Warning: this malware targeting Android loot the bank account of the victims – Daily Investor Hub
While ransomware is becoming more fashionable, banking malware is also popular. Recently, new software of this type has been discovered, taking again the code of another very dangerous banking malware, namely Anubis. The fact is that this new malware can empty the bank account of the victims! The Ginp malwareCalled …
Read More »Newly discovered Mac malware uses “fileless” technique to remain stealthy – Ars Technica
Hackers believed to be working for the North Korean government have upped their game with a recently discovered Mac trojan that uses in-memory execution to remain stealthy. In-memory execution, also known as fileless infection, never writes anything to a computer hard drive. Instead, it loads malicious code directly into memory …
Read More »Clogged Up With Malware? Here’s The 5 Minute Reboot For Your Brain – Forbes
Reboot your brain needpix.com If you’re like me, you hardly ever switch off your laptop and seldom run antivirus software. But, when you finally do get around to it, have you noticed how much faster and better your laptop operates, at least for a while? Well, it’s the same with …
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