The STOP ransomware family has been circling the web for a few months now, successfully infecting victims and encrypting their files. In addition to the encryption capabilities, the ransomware is now able to install a particular password stealing Trojan known…
This article has been created in order to best explain what is the Gen:Variant.Symmi virus and provide you with the necessary methods on how to remove it completely from your computer. A Trojan horse, that opens up a back door…
Motherboard recently reported that a company [Family Orbit] that is selling spyware to parents to keep track of their children has been hacked. As a result, the pictures of hundreds of monitored children were leaked online, protected only by an…
AZORult is an information stealer and downloader designed to harvest various sensitive details from the systems it compromises. The malware was first identified in 2016 when it was distributed as a part of an infection with Chthonic banking Trojan. Soon…
Blackgear is a previously detected cyber espionage campaign that dates back to 2008. The malware has been known to target organizations in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, with the targets primarily being public sector agencies and high-tech companies. According to…
The Stylish extension used by many Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome users has been removed from their plugin repositories due to security concerns. A dangerous privacy leak has been exposed by a blogger which reported that the plugin reports private…
A previously unknown piece of complex malware with spying capabilities was recently discovered by researchers at cybersecurity firm ESET. The spyware is dubbed InvisiMole and is regarded as an advanced cyber espionage tool most likely designed for attacks on nation-state…
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…
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…
Android has been long targeted by attackers. There have been multiple cases of Android malware and ransomware, and even cryptocurrency miners posing as apps. Android has always been lucrative for malicious actors, and the quickly evolving threat landscape for the…
Security experts identified that the SonicSpy Android Spyware is being used to generate a lot of malicious apps for the mobile operating system. In several months time the hackers have been able to create over 1000 virus instances, some of…
Despite being used by millions of users worldwide, Android continues to be prone to various exploits. Unfortunately, the operating system is often targeted by suspicious apps that smartly trick the user into installing them. This happens mainly because malicious apps…
More Malware Memes Free software is often bundled with suspicious applications such as adware and PUPs. However, if you are ‘lucky’ enough, you may not just get an innocent PUP but a real piece of malware installed alongside that free…
Have you encountered ‘Ads by Not set’ in your browser while surfing? If so, be careful, since you may have an adware application running in the background and generating intrusive ads. Users have reported the ads being quite persistent, showing…
Malware evolves quickly, and so do the goals of cyber criminals. Thus, one most crucial duty that security researchers have is closely observing malware pieces. Kaspersky Lab’s research team has been carefully studying one particular malware piece dubbed Asacub. Asacub…
