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Danger
Macro-based malware evolves to bypass traditional defenses

Macro-based malware is growing into full-featured malware capable of detecting and bypassing traditional security tools, Barkly researchers have discovered. Macro-based …

Seagate Central
Your Seagate Central NAS could be hosting mining malware

If you have discovered cryptocurrency mining malware on your system, have removed it, and got compromised again without an idea about how it happened, it could be that the …

Biohazard
43.7% of cloud-based malware delivers ransomware

According to a new Netskope report, 43.7% of malware found in enterprises cloud apps have delivered ransomware, and 55.9% of malware-infected files found in cloud apps are …

Apple
Sophisticated Mokes backdoor targets Mac users

A new malware targeting Macs has been discovered: the Mokes backdoor. Capable of making screenshots, recording keystrokes, capturing audio, and rifling through Office …

IoT
Mirai Linux Trojan corrals IoT devices into DDoS botnets

Mirai, a newly discovered and still poorly detected piece of Linux malware, is being used to rope IoT devices into DDoS botnets. Researchers from MalwareMustDie have recently …

trojan
Gugi banking Trojan outsmarts Android 6 security

A modification of the Gugi banking Trojan that can bypass Android 6 security features designed to block phishing and ransomware attacks. The modified Trojan forces users into …

biohazard
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 …

burn
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 …

match
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 …

Chrome
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 …

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 …

USB
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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