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Alleged seller of NetWire RAT arrested in Croatia

March 10, 2023

This week, as part of a global law enforcement operation, federal authorities in Los Angeles successfully confiscated www.worldwiredlabs.com, a domain utilized by …

Business-grade routers compromised in low-key attack campaign

March 6, 2023

An unknown threat actor has discreetly compromised business-grade DrayTek routers in Europe, Latin and North America, equipping them with a remote access trojan (dubbed …

Attackers mount Magento supply chain attack by compromising FishPig extensions

September 14, 2022

FishPig, a UK-based company developing extensions for the popular Magento open-source e-commerce platform, has announced that its paid software offerings have been injected …

Fake DDoS protection pages are delivering malware!

August 22, 2022

Malware peddlers are exploiting users’ familiarity with and inherent trust in DDoS protection pages to make them download and run malware on their computer, Sucuri …

Houdini malware returns, enterprise risk assessment compromised by Amazon Sidewalk

August 18, 2021

Cato Networks announced the results of its analysis of 263 billion enterprise network flows between April and June 2021. Researchers showed a novel use of Houdini malware to …

Are NFTs safe? 3 things you should know before you buy

May 6, 2021

NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, have captured the attention (and wallets) of consumers and businesses around the world. This is largely in part to the big price-tag sales, such …

Massive increase in endpoint attacks, rising rate of encrypted malware and new exploits targeting IoT

April 7, 2021

Fileless malware and cryptominer attack rates grew by nearly 900% and 25% respectively, while unique ransomware payloads plummeted by 48% in 2020 compared to 2019, according …

New phishing campaign targets taxpayer credentials

March 19, 2021

A new phishing campaign is targeting U.S. taxpayers with documents that purport to contain tax-related content, but ultimately deliver NetWire and Remcos malware – two …

Hackers are getting hacked via trojanized hacking tools

March 10, 2020

Someone has been trojanizing a wide variety of hacking tools to compromise the machines of hackers who want to use the tools for free, Cybereason researcher Amit Serper has …

Attackers continue to leverage greater levels of social engineering and sophistication

November 11, 2019

Despite a nearly four-month absence, the return of Emotet within the last two weeks of September accounted for nearly 12 percent of all malicious email samples in Q3, …

FlawedAmmy: Dangerous RAT enteres most wanted malware list

November 14, 2018

The latest Check Point Global Threat Index reveals that while cryptomining malware continues to dominate the rankings, a remote access Trojan has reached the top ten’s list …

XPCTRA financial malware leaves no stone unturned

September 26, 2017

A Trojan that has previously been only stealing users’ banking credentials has been modified to do much more than that. This new variant, dubbed XPCTRA, can also steal …

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