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Monthly Archives: April 2016
Qbot malware resurfaces with renewed powers ready to steal your banking credentials
Qbot — also known as Qakbot — is a form of malware that’s been around for a number of years, but security researchers at Cisco Talos have noted that it has returned with a vengeance. Once installed the malware steals … Continue reading
Screen overlay malware on the rise as bot scum battle for dominance
Tanking PC trojans turn VXers to Android. IBM malware murderer Limor Kessem says Android VXers are using legitimate screen overlay features to hose handsets. Screen overlays do what it says on the can: applications with appropriate permission can monitor other apps … Continue reading
Adware from French runs away and hides on 12M machines
Webscum copy skilled VXers to duck antivirus, sandboxes. Cisco’s Warren Mercer and Matthew Molyett are warning that software downloaded from sites run by French firm Tut4PC likely included trojan backdoors. The Borg’s security arm, Talos, thinks some 12 million machines have … Continue reading
Virus discovered at the Gundremmingen nuclear plant in Germany
According to the German BR24 News Agency, a computer virus was discovered in a system at the Gundremmingen nuclear plant in Germany. According to the German BR24 News Agency, a computer virus was discovered at the Gundremmingen nuclear power plant … Continue reading
GsearchFinder hijackers add extra Firefox profile
Author’s Note: We at Malwarebytes continue to do our part in educating our product users and constant blog readers about day-to-day online threats and how they can avoid falling prey to them. “PUP Friday”, our latest attempt at getting users … Continue reading
“FIN6” Cybergang Steals Millions of Cards From PoS Systems
FIN6 Hackers Deployed Malware on Thousands of Retail and Hospitality Point-of-Sale Systems Researchers have been monitoring the activities of a cybercriminal group that appears to have made a significant amount of money by stealing millions of payment card records and … Continue reading
Security Firm Discovers Secret Plan to Hack Numerous Websites and Forums
Security Firm Discovers Secret Plan to Hack Numerous Websites and Forums.Forum hosting platform avoids disaster at the last minute after security researchers stumble upon secret hacking plan Security researchers from SurfWatch Labs have shut down a secret plan to hack … Continue reading
Experts discovered a number of flaws in the Avactis PHP Shopping Cart
A group of experts at VoidSec used a Grey Box approach to assess the security posture of some important aspects of Avactis PHP Shopping Cart. Avactis is an open source ecommerce Shopping Cart platform most used in US and UK. Security … Continue reading
The Vigilante Who Hacked Hacking Team Explains How He Did It
Back in July of last year, the controversial government spying and hacking tool sellerHacking Team was hacked itself by an outside attacker. The breach made headlines worldwide, but no one knew much about the perpetrator or how he did it. That … Continue reading
GHOSTS IN THE ENDPOINT
We would like to introduce the first of our “Ghosts in the Endpoint” series, a report prepared by FireEye Labs that documents malicious software not being detected in the wild by traditional signature-based detections. In this study, all the families … Continue reading