Holiday season scams: Fake deals, fake stores, fake opportunities
Black Friday is widely regarded as the beginning of the US (and increasingly global) Christmas shopping season. Cyber Monday, which comes three days later, was created to …
Only 12% or organizations are likely to detect a sophisticated cyber attack
Organizations believe that today’s cyber threat landscape places them at high risk of cyber attacks. The EY survey of nearly 1,200 C-level leaders of the world’s …
Why hackers reuse malware
Software developers love to reuse code wherever possible, and hackers are no exception. While we often think of different malware strains as separate entities, the reality is …
Sneaky malware downloader found in apps on Google Play
Google has removed from Google Play eight apps that have served as downloaders for Android banking malware. The malware The packages – a mixture of Android cleaners and …
How to stop Emotet malware from infecting your computer
The Emotet banking Trojan has been around since 2014. It continues to evolve, and has even been spotted acting like a distribution method for other banking malware. Latest …
Rise and evolution of ransomware attacks
Ransomware, malware that encrypts systems and then asks for a ransom to decrypt files and systems, has become more prevalent in recent years. In fact, two of 2017’s major …
Google will remove apps that misuse Android Accessibility Services from Google Play
Android app developers whose offerings implement Accessibility Services for reasons other that helping users with disabilities use their apps have less then 30 days to switch …
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 …
Microsoft offers mitigation advice for DDE attacks scenarios
Microsoft has published a security advisorty containing DDE attack mitigation instructions for both users and admins. What’s a DDE attack? For a while now, attackers …
Crooks poison results for financial-related searches to deliver banking malware
Cyber crooks are using a clever approach to deliver banking malware to the right victims: they are poisoning the search results for specific banking-related keywords. The …
Ransomware victims are paying the ransom in record numbers
Intermedia examined the critical security behavioral habits of more than 1,000 office workers. Ransomware attacks continue to grow exponentially The threat of ransomware, when …
Cryptocurrency-mining script planted in apps on Google Play
Coinhive’s cryptocurrency-mining script has found its way into mobile apps offered on Google Play. Trend Micro researchers have spotted two apps that have been equipped …