MALWARE

NEW DELHI: Analyst at Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, Tatyana Shishkova, took to Twitter to alert Android phone users about the return of the potent Joker malware on Google play store. Shishkova found that the Joker malware infecting at least…

Security researchers discovered that attackers are also deploying a Linux backdoor on compromised e-commerce servers after injecting a credit card skimmer into online shops' websites. The PHP-coded web skimmer (a script designed to steal…

Is your USB data transfer really slow these days? Here's how to give it a boost The USB drive is a ubiquitous way to transfer data between devices. Given how compact and lightweight they can be, the humble USB drive is one of the best…

Android phones users are once again being put on red alert after a dangerous piece of malware infected millions of devices. If you own a handset from one leading smartphone manufacturer then you really need to double check if you've…

A ‘nearly impossible to analyze’ version of the malware sports a bootkit and ‘steal-everything’ capabilities. The FinSpy surveillance kit has been driven from its hiding place following an eight-month investigation by Kaspersky…

State-sponsored hackers affiliated with Russia are behind a new series of intrusions using a previously undocumented implant to compromise systems in the U.S., Germany, and Afghanistan. Cisco Talos attributed the attacks to the Turla …

Black Lotus Labs revealed on Thursday that it's discovered new malware that uses the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to avoid being detected by security tools. WSL debuted in 2016 alongside the Windows 10 Anniversary Update as a way to…

Uptycs Threat Research Team has discovered malware that not only hijacks vulnerable *nix-based servers and uses them to mine cryptocurrency but actually modifies their CPU configurations in a bid to increase mining performance at the cost…

Taiwanese security firm CyCraft has released a free application that can help victims of the Prometheus ransomware recover and decrypt some of their files. Available on GitHub, the decryptor effectively works by brute-forcing the…

Oscorp, an Android malware that was observed abusing accessibility services in the device to hijack user credentials from European banking applications has morphed into an entirely new botnet as part of a renewed campaign that began in May…