Most malvertising attacks are hosted on news and entertainment websites
“More than 50 percent of malvertising is unknowingly hosted on news and entertainment websites, according to Bromium. “Bad actors look to extend their reach as far …
Hacking Team’s RCS Android: The most sophisticated Android malware ever exposed
“As each day passes and researchers find more and more source code in the huge Hacking Team data dump, it becomes more clear what the company’s customers could do …
Free tools for detecting Hacking Team malware in your systems
“Worried that you might have been targeted with Hacking Team spyware, but don’t know how to find out for sure? IT security firm Rook Security has released Milano, …
Hacking Team used fake app hosted on Google Play to install its spyware on Android devices
“The massive Hacking Team data leak includes the source code of a fake Android news app and instructions on how to use it, Trend Micro researchers have found. The app, …
Researchers prove HTML5 can be used to hide malware
“A group of Italian researchers have come up with new obfuscation techniques that can be used to dupe malware detection systems and allow malicious actors to execute …
New GamaPoS malware targets US companies
“After dedicating their efforts to swelling the number of computers roped into their malicious net, the masters of the Andromeda botnet are putting it to use by …
Duke APT group adds low-profile SeaDuke Trojan to their malware arsenal
“Not much is known about the cyber espionage group that wields the so-called “Dukes”: backdoors and information stealers that all have “Duke” in …
TeslaCrypt 2.0 makes it impossible to decrypt affected files
“Kaspersky Lab has detected curious behavior in a new threat from the TeslaCrypt ransomware encryptor family. In version 2.0 of the Trojan notorious for infecting …
The soaring cost of malware containment
“Organizations are dealing with nearly 10,000 malware alerts per week, however, only 22% of these are considered reliable, according to a new report from The Ponemon …
More of Hacking Team’s capabilities and questionable actions revealed
The Hacking Team data leak has shown us with whom the company does business with, and their employees’ and management’s unguarded opinions about various …
Popular Android games unmasked as phishing tools
“ESET researchers have discovered a new, ingenious, yet very simple Facebook phishing scheme: playable Android games that, before they are started, ask users to enter …
Fake Android battery monitor app thoroughly compromises users’ devices
“Downloading apps from Google Play is a safer proposition than doing it from third party markets, but despite Google using an automated app scanning service …