Category: Anti-malware

By Tom Spring April 4, 2017                                                 Researchers have identified a stealthy new remote access tool dubbed ROKRAT that leverages a bevy of anti-detection measures. The RAT targets the Korean language Microsoft Word alternative Hangul Word Processor (HWP).   ROKRAT was detected several weeks ago by Cisco Talos,… Continue reading New RAT Targets Koreans And Is Skilled At Evading Detection

It’s settled then, he has spoken                                      4 Apr 2017 at 15:10, John Leyden   Sir Tim Berners-Lee has criticised plans to weaken encryption or extend surveillance in the wake of recent terrorist attacks.   Days after the attack on Westminster that claimed the lives of three pedestrians and… Continue reading WWW daddy Sir Tim Berners-Lee stands up for end-to-end crypto

Kim Zetter April 3 2017                                              The method was a complete mystery, and the only clues left behind were files containing a single line of English text: “Take the money, bitch.”   It was fast and furious, and if not for the surveillance cameras that captured the heist in action,… Continue reading Hackers Stole $800,000 From Russian ATMs With Disappearing Malware

3rd April 2017  by Bill Brenner   Last October, Microsoft released Security Bulletin MS16-121, patching an Office vulnerability attackers could exploit to run malware on infected computers. Those who have yet to apply it should do so immediately: SophosLabs researchers have discovered fresh cases of AKBuilder and Microsoft Word Intruder (MWI) exploiting the flaw. Specifically, copies of AKBuilder are being sold… Continue reading AKBuilder, Microsoft Word Intruder exploiting Office RTF vulnerability

3rd April 2017  By Sead Fadilpašić                                                   A new and “very aggressive” airline phishing attack was just spotted, and it’s one with such a high success rate that even security experts are baffled. It was spotted by Barracuda, and it says that this new attack has a success… Continue reading Security researchers uncover phishing attack with very high success rate

3rd April 2017 By Hemant Saxena   Most malware and viruses have evolved with time and use disguise to conceal their identity. Even the most active CERBER family of ransomware has adopted a new technique to evade detection by machine learning solutions.                                         This development was first observed by researchers at Trend Micro… Continue reading Cerber Ransomware evolves to evade detection by Machine Learning Solutions

April 3rd 2017                                                                                       The leak was traced to a prize distribution company.   Nearly half a million subscribers to charity lotteries have been warned that their personal details may have been compromised by a data leak.   The BankGiro Loterij, Postcode Loterij… Continue reading Data leak exposes details of 450,000 lottery subscribers

Here comes news about a new kind of attack that can turn an advanced antivirus security software itself into malware. Researchers have come up with reports about a new proof-of-concept exploit, which has been named DoubleAgent, which would hijack third-party Windows antivirus software and then use the same antivirus software to deliver further attacks. Of… Continue reading A New Attack That Turns Antivirus Software Into Malware

We have had, in the recent months, many reports of malicious email attacks, including those targeting Amazon and Netflix customers. Such malicious email attacks are on the rise; still it seems that even today there are many people, and many businesses as well, that do no realize that it’s a malicious email that has come… Continue reading How to Tackle Phishing Emails and Other Malicious Email Attacks

1st April 2017  By Catalin Cimpanu                                              Yesterday, at the BlackHat Asia 2017 security conference, researchers from cyber-security firm Cylance disclosed two vulnerabilities in the firmware of Gigabyte BRIX small computing devices, which allow an attacker to write malicious content to the UEFI firmware.   During… Continue reading Gigabyte Firmware Flaws Allow the Installation of UEFI Ransomware