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Mobile ransomware increases 200 percent
There’s been a startling 200 percent increase in mobile ransomware detection in Q2, according to Quick Heal. This amounts to nearly 50 percent of the ransomware detected …
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Betabot steals passwords, downloads ransomware
The infamous and ever-changing Betabot information-stealing Trojan is back again, and has been observed downloading another well-known threat – the Cerber ransomware. Of …
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Mobile device infections rose 96 percent in the first half of 2016
After examining general trends and statistics for malware infections in devices connected through mobile and fixed networks, Nokia found a sharp rise in the occurrence of …
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Google Chrome impersonator Trojan doing rounds
If you’re a Google Chrome user, and suddenly your browser looks a bit off and shows you pages that you would never visit ordinarily, you’ve probably been hit with …
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Linux servers hit with FairWare ransomware – or is it just a scam?
Users posting on Bleeping Computer’s forums have alerted the world to a new threat targeting Linux server admins: the FairWare ransomware. Whether the ransomware …
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USBee makes USB devices transmit data from air-gapped computers
After devising ways of exfiltrating data from air-gapped computers via mobile phones, using radio frequencies, heat, rogue software that transmits electromagnetic signals at …
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CodexGigas: Malware profiling search engine
CodexGigas is a free malware profiling search engine powered by Deloitte Argentina, which allows malware analysts to explore malware internals and perform searches over a …
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Ramnit Trojan rides again, targets customers of six major UK banks
The infamous Ramnit Trojan is on the prowl again, and this time it targets personal banking customers of six unnamed UK banks. The Trojan has not changed much since we last …
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Twitter-controlled Android backdoor delivers banking malware
A backdoor Trojan named Twitoor is the first instance of Android malware that receives its commands from a Twitter account. Keeping their botnet out of law enforcement’s …
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The evolution of BEC scams and ransomware
Trend Micro analyzed the trends in attacks and vulnerabilities seen throughout the first half of this year, and found a rise and impact of attacks, such as a 172 percent …
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UK universities hit repeatedly with ransomware, one over 21 times!
63 percent of UK universities have been hit by ransomware – most of them multiple times, and Bournemouth University a total of 21 times in the last year, SentinelOne has …
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Researchers design a chip that checks for sabotage
With the outsourcing of microchip design and fabrication a worldwide, $350 billion business, bad actors along the supply chain have many opportunities to install malicious …
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