Kaspersky detection technologies have found malicious files disguised as documents related to the newly discovered coronavirus that has spread in many countries and prompted the World Health Organization to declare a global […]
Kaspersky protection technologies detected a 39% rise in attacks (attempts to download or run malicious files) under the guise of nominees’ works in 2019, compared to 2018. Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift, and […]
Kaspersky researchers detected a Trojan application that “terrorizes” users with unsolicited ads and boosts installations of online shopping applications fooling both users and advertisers. This malicious app visits as the season sales […]
Researchers at Kaspersky, a global cybersecurity solutions provider, observed that ransomware has targeted at least 174 municipal institutions (with more than 3,000 subset organizations) in 2019, that’s a 60% increase compared to […]
Microsoft gets a ruling from a US district court enabling it to take control of 50 domains that the threat group Thallium uses to conduct its operations. The technology giant was able […]
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McAfee, the device-to-cloud cybersecurity company, recently released its McAfee Labs Threats Report for August 2019 examining cybercriminal activity and the evolution of cyber threats in the first quarter (Q1) of 2019. McAfee […]
Check Point Research, the Threat Intelligence arm of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., a cybersecurity solutions provider, revealed that through the USB and connections to WiFi networks, today’s modern cameras are vulnerable […]
Baldr malware has gone missing in June after cybercriminals after an internal rift. Sophos, a network and endpoint security firm, expects it to make a comeback anytime soon guessing that it may […]
Kaspersky researchers have discovered 430,000 users faced malware aimed at stealing finances, cryptocurrencies, and web-money services in the first half of 2019 — 7% more than in the same period last year. […]
Check Point researchers recently discovered a new variant of mobile malware that has quietly infected around 25 million devices, while the user remains completely unaware. Disguised as a Google-related application, the core […]
Kaspersky researchers have uncovered a highly sophisticated cyberespionage campaign aimed at stealing information from South Asian diplomatic, government and military entities. The campaign lasted almost six years and had ties to other […]
Check Point Research, the threat intelligence arm of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., has published its latest Global Threat Index for April 2019. The banking trojan Trickbot has returned to the Index’s […]
Financial Times reported — and was confirmed by WhatsApp — that the messaging app has been infected with commercial spyware. According to the report, Israel’s secretive NSO group developed the spyware that […]
According to this year’s “NSS Labs’ 2019 Advanced Endpoint Protection (AEP) Group Test,” Fortinet’s FortiClient demonstrated a 100% block rate of exploits, unknown threats, and HTTP malware, with zero false positives from […]
In 2018, Kaspersky Lab detected and prevented activity by malicious objects on almost half of Industrial Control System (ICS) computers protected by the company’s products and defined as part of an organization’s […]
In the 24th edition of its Security Intelligence Report (SIR), an annual study aimed to improve cyber resilience in the region, Microsoft said malware remains a huge cyberthreat in the Asia-Pacific not […]
Mobile devices or the end users are the most vulnerable to malware (malicious software) attacks and have become easier targets for cybercriminals. Kaspersky Lab’s Mobile Malware Evolution 2018 report says that in […]
Security firm Sophos said it was able to track 96 samples from malware that has been operating since 2016 and comes from the Matrix ransomware family. The ransomware is infecting computers using […]
Cybersecurity company Symantec Corp. introduced recently its Industrial Control System Protection (ICSP) Neural, the industry’s first neural network-integrated USB scanning station that helps organizations protect critical infrastructure by preventing the devastating physical […]
Security firm Trend Micro was able to detect what it calls an “in-the-wild sample” in Virus Total that delivers a malware that steals information. This is in response to Cymulate’s discovery of […]
Acer Security Suite is a complete hardware and software package that encrypts any program file, computer, and user-set passwords and can leverage the trusted platform module technology for secure computing.
Image from Pixabay In the McAfee Threats Report for September 2018, security researchers highlight the surge of crypto mining malware that started last year and continued in the first half of this […]
Image from Pixabay According to the Kaspersky Lab IoT report, in the first half of 2018, IoT devices were attacked with more than 120,000 modifications of malware. That’s more than triple the […]
(Image by Pete Linforth/Pixabay) The average DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack quintupled in size to more than 26 Gbps and the maximum attack size quadrupled to 359 Gbps compared to the […]
