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What was first considered a ransomware attack turned into a much more complicated situation as researchers at the Slovakian security software firm ESET found a backdoor written into some software updates the Ukrainian M.E.Doc, the main source of infection breakout unleashed last week in Ukraine. According to a post by Security Week, ESET researchers had […]

Checkpoint researchers identified a mobile malware named Copycat found infected with more than 14 million Android devices worldwide. The infected devices are found to perform ad fraud and has helped hackers make more than $1.5 million in the past 60 days. Once the malware is infected, it tries to root the device allowing the bad […]

Multiple users have reported to have lost their classic ether approx. $300,000 on reddit on June 29th and June 30th. An unknown hacker convinced 1&1 staff using social engineering techniques and got hold of https://www.myetherwallet.com/ and tricked the users sending money to the hacker wallet. The hacker tricked the users and redirected the main domain […]

A new variant of the OceanLotus backdoor was detected by researchers in Palo Alto Networks in their recent WildFire cloud analysis platform. Paloalto’s Unit 42 reported that this new variant is developed by the same Vietnamese group who released its precedent in 2015 and is one of the most sophisticated backdoors seen in macOS to […]

A new variant of the Marcher Android malware is disguising as an update for Adobe Flash Player to steal users’ financial credentials such as online banking and credit card details, according to Zscaler Threatlabz. Previously known to baiting users by exploiting pornographic websites and popular games to deliver payload, the malicious Marcher now resorts to […]

Last Monday was a day which will live in infamy for the automobile manufacturer Honda as the renowned Japanese company was forced to power down one of its domestic plants after the WannaCry ransomware found a way into the company’s network. The plant in question, located in Sayama an hour northwest of Tokyo, had an […]

Petya has impacted all over the world starting from pharmaceutical companies, oil gaints, airports, hospitals, ports and many banks. The method of infection is similar to Wannacry with leaked NSA EthernalBlue, (MS17-010) infected thousands of people including hospital networks. Petya differs from typical ransomware as it also overwrites and encrypts the master boot record (MBR) […]

Trend micro researchers have discovered a Android Trojan ad library named Xavier that steals user’s information without user knowledge. More than 800 Android apps which embedded the ad library appears to have infected with the malware. Xavier has self-protect mechanism that allows it to escape both static and dynamic analysis making it harder to detect. […]

Microsoft published an article about the exploitation of Intel’s AMT tools stealing government data for espionage purposes. The hack works independently of the Operating system which can bypass any windows firewall at the moment. The malware has been active since at least 2009 primarily responsible for spear phishing attacks on ISPs, government organizations, intelligence agencies, […]