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During the past couple of years, ransomware was preferably targeting medical institutions and hospitals. Multiple health organizations were hit and were left with no choice but to pay the demanded ransom. With the shift of malicious trends to cryptocurrency miners,…
Multiple reports have been issued regarding newly emerged online scams that are currently infecting users. These scams are relying on the names of well-known companies like Amazon and DHL to trick users into interacting with them. The scams are usually…
2017 was one of the worst years for cybersecurity experts, with the increasing number of hack attacks and various data breaches. More specifically, researchers were able to estimate that there were 5,207 breaches reported last year, a new report by…
A new Android miner malware has been uncovered – ADB.Miner. The miner is wormable and is designed to scan a wide range of IP addresses to locate vulnerable devices. The miner was discovered by researchers at Netlab security firm. Related…
A new cryptocurrency miner delivered through MacUpdate has been uncovered by security researchers. The malware which was discovered by SentinelOne researcher Arnaud Abbati has been dubbed OSX.CreativeUpdate. The miner can reside in the background of the system and use its…
Adobe Flash Player has been long targeted by hackers. Plenty of vulnerabilities have been uncovered during the years, and plenty of attacks based on Adobe flaws have been crafted. This year also starts off with a critical vulnerability that was…
A new botnet carrying out large-scale attacks has been discovered by security researchers. The botnet is dubbed DDG and is proclaimed the second biggest mining botnet ever. Its targets are the Redis and OrientDB servers. DDG.Mining.Botnet Attacks Description A couple…
According to statistics provided by Andrew Ahn, Product Manager at Google, the company removed over 700,000 Android app from the Play Store last year. In 2017, the Google team took down more than 700,000 apps that violated the Google Play…
The infamous Dridex banking Trojan has now shifted towards ransomware in its FriedEx (also known as BitPaymer) variant. Image Source: ESET Related Story: Dridex Spread via Compromised OneDrive for Business Accounts “Dridex has been a nightmare for computer users, companies…
Stealing from Ransomware Operators and Ransomware Victims? Mission Possible, Says Onion.to Tor-to-web Proxy Service Security researchers at Proofpoint have reported that the operators of a Tor proxy service were detected replacing Bitcoin addresses on ransomware payment websites. This means that…
At least 2,000 WordPress websites have been compromised by a piece of malware designed to act like a cryptocurrency miner and a keystroke logger. The malware leverages the name of Cloudfare and was discovered several months ago by Sucuri researchers.…
The world’s biggest cryptocurrency theft (for now) is already a fact. Coincheck, the leading Bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchange in Asia as advertised on their website, has lost $530 million worth of cryptos. The theft has already caused a lot of…
Chrome 64 for Windows, Mac and Linux has just been made available by Google. The latest version of the browser features a more powerful pop-up blocker, 53 security fixes, and further mitigations against the Spectre flaw. At the end of…
Security researchers have detected another attack against users that are interested in cryptocurrency. A fake application masqueraded as wallet software is currently distributing ransomware and also has an information stealer bundled in the infection package, experts warn. The fake application…
A string of new spyware has been detected by security researchers. Dubbed Dark Caracal, the campaigns seem to be operating out of a government building in Lebanon. The campaigns have attacked thousands of victims in at least 21 countries. The…
The infamous Satori botnet has once again been caught in the wild, this time targeting rigs mining for the Ethereum cryptocurrency. Researchers dubbed this latest iteration Satori.Coin.Robber. Satori is a botnet that exploits a flaw in Huawei and a bug…
Researchers recently came across a piece of Trojan that deserves lots of attention due to its highly sophisticated spying capabilities. The Trojan is named Skygofree, after one of the domains it used, and its target is Android. Skygofree was discovered…
The BlackWallet browser-based wallet application has been compromised and 400,000 USD in user funds (in the Stellar Lumen cryptocurrency) were stolen from it. It’s still unknown who is behind this attack. To perform the attacks, hackers hijacked the DNS servers…
2018 is already here, and it has started pretty strong for cybersecurity with the disclosure of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities. However, the question still remains – what will this year bring in terms of malware coding, attacks on enterprises…
The following article will help you remove the Marlin.exe cryptocurrency (coin) miner which uses users’ GPUs to mine for an altcoin – SiaCoin. Once the miner is installed on a victim’s system in the form of a Trojan, the victim…
