Security News

Undetected For Years, Stantinko Malware Infected Half a Million Systems (Security Week)
2017-07-21 11:23

A massive botnet that remained under the radar for the past five years managed to infect around half a million computers and allows operators to “execute anything on the infected host,” ESET...

Russian Citadel Malware Developer Gets 5-Year Sentence (InfoRiskToday)
2017-07-20 13:48

Notorious Banking Trojan Tied to 11 Million Infections, $500 Million in LossesRussian citizen Mark Vartanyan, aka "Kolypto," has been sentenced to serve five years in U.S. prison after he pleaded...

Russian man who helped create notorious malware sentenced to 5 years (ArsTechnica)
2017-07-19 18:03

DOJ: Citadel led to $500 million in losses for banks.

WikiLeaks Reveals CIA Teams Up With Tech to Collect Ideas For Malware Development (The Hackers News)
2017-07-19 04:08

As part of its ongoing Vault 7 leaks, the whistleblower organisation WikiLeaks today revealed about a CIA contractor responsible for analysing advanced malware and hacking techniques being used in...

New Linux Malware Exploits SambaCry Flaw to Silently Backdoor NAS Devices (The Hackers News)
2017-07-19 01:23

Remember SambaCry? Almost two months ago, we reported about a 7-year-old critical remote code execution vulnerability in Samba networking software, allowing a hacker to remotely take full control...

Malware Targets NAS Devices Via SambaCry Exploit (Security Week)
2017-07-18 16:24

A piece of malware dubbed by researchers SHELLBIND leverages a recently patched Samba vulnerability in attacks aimed at Internet of Things (IoT) devices, particularly network-attached storage...

NemucodAES Ransomware, Kovter Click-Fraud Malware Spreading in Same Campaigns (Threatpost)
2017-07-14 16:37

Researchers have spotted malicious email campaigns using Zip archives to spread NemucodAES ransomware and the Kovter click-fraud Trojan, simultaneously distributing both pieces of malware.

'HighRise' Android Malware Used by CIA to Intercept SMS Messages (Security Week)
2017-07-13 14:28

WikiLeaks on Thursday published a user guide describing what appears to be a tool used by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to intercept SMS messages on Android mobile devices. read more

New Point-of-Sale Malware LockPoS Hitches Ride with FlokiBot (Threatpost)
2017-07-12 18:56

Botnets distributing FlokiBot point-of-sale malware are back in business spewing a new malware dubbed LockPoS.

LockPoS Point of Sale Malware Emerges (Security Week)
2017-07-12 17:23

A newly discovered Point of Sale (PoS) malware is being delivered via a dropper that is manually loaded and executed on the targeted systems, Arbor Networks Security researchers warn. read more