Nastiest malware of 2018: Top attack payloads wreaking havoc
Webroot highlights the top cyberattacks of 2018 in its latest nastiest malware list, which showcases the malware and attack payloads that have been most detrimental to …
USA and China identified as top cyber attack sources
NSFOCUS released its H1 Cybersecurity Insights report, which analyzed traffic from January 1, 2018 to June 30, 2018. Crypto miners Since the end of March, the number of crypto …
Banking Trojan attacks increase, large scale Ramnit campaign impacts organizations worldwide
Check Point revealed a significant increase in attacks using the Ramnit banking trojan. Ramnit has doubled its global impact over the past few months, driven by a large scale …
42% of organizations globally hit by cryptomining attacks
Cybercriminals are aggressively targeting organizations using cryptomining malware to develop illegal revenue streams, according to Check Point. Meanwhile, cloud …
Cryptocurrency miners poised for continued growth
WatchGuard threat intelligence from Q1 2018 revealed that 98.8 percent of seemingly common Linux/Downloader malware variants were actually designed to deliver a popular …
Banking Trojans and cryptojacking on the rise
A new report analyzes threat data collected from approximately 750,000 Morphisec protected endpoints globally, between January 1 and March 31, 2018, as well as from in-depth …
BackSwap Trojan exploits standard browser features to empty bank accounts
Creating effective and stealthy banking malware is becoming increasingly difficult, forcing malware authors to come up with innovative methods. The latest creative burst in …
Malicious apps in app stores decrease 37 percent
Malicious mobile apps were on the decline in Q4 of 2017 largely due to a decrease in the inventory of AndroidAPKDescargar, the most prolific dealer of blacklisted apps, …
Cryptomining malware continues to drain enterprise CPU power
Cryptomining malware continues to impact organizations globally as 23% were affected by the Coinhive variant during January 2018, according to Check Point’s latest Global …
Dridex gang follows trends, also created FriedEx ransomware
The gang behind the infamous banking Trojan Dridex has also created the FriedEx (aka BitPaymer) ransomware, ESET researchers confidently claim. The similarities between Dridex …
Exploits and fileless malware drive record new malware surge
McAfee released its McAfee Labs Threat Report: December 2017, examining the growth and trends of new malware, ransomware, and other threats in Q3 2017. McAfee Labs saw malware …
IcedID: Original new banking Trojan emerges
IcedID, a new banking Trojan that does not seem to have borrowed code from other similar threats, has entered the financial cybercrime arena. It was first spotted in the wild …