Security News

Adwind RAT Returns! Cross-Platform Malware Targeting Aerospace Industries (The Hackers News)
2017-07-11 04:16

Hackers and cyber criminals are becoming dramatically more adept, innovative, and stealthy with each passing day. While other operating systems are more widely in use, cybercriminals have now...

PoS malware hits food kiosks, steals payment card and biometric info (Help Net Security)
2017-07-10 17:31

PoS malware can lurk in the most unexpected of places, and some have recently been found in the payment kiosks by US-based vendor Avanti, stealing payment card and biometric information. Those...

'Dok' Mac Malware Used to Target Swiss Banks (Security Week)
2017-07-10 13:46

The cybercriminals behind the campaign known as Operation Emmental have apparently started targeting the customers of Swiss banks using a variant of the Mac OS X malware tracked as Dok. read more

PoS Malware Hits Avanti Payment Kiosks (Security Week)
2017-07-10 08:01

Hackers Steal Payment Card and Biometric Data From Avanti Kiosks read more

SpyDealer Malware Steals Private Data From Popular Android Apps (Security Week)
2017-07-08 17:54

A recently discovered Android Trojan can exfiltrate private data from more than 40 applications, Palo Alto Networks security researchers have discovered. read more

Why Kodi boxes can pose a serious malware threat (Help Net Security)
2017-07-07 13:00

When new streaming devices, such as the Amazon Firestick and Apple TV, were first introduced, many were intrigued by the ease by which they could watch “over the top” content from the Internet,...

How the NotPetya Malware Spread (InfoRiskToday)
2017-07-07 09:33

The latest edition of ISMG Security Report leads with a conversation with DataBreachToday Executive Editor Mathew J. Schwartz on how the NotPetya malware spread from its Ukraine origins. Also, why...

CopyCat Malware Infected 14M Android Devices, Rooted 8M, in 2016 (Threatpost)
2017-07-06 17:49

Over the course of two months last year the Copycat malware infected 14 million Android devices and rooted more than half of them, roughly eight million devices.

Operators of decade-old Malware-as-a-Service outfit charged (Help Net Security)
2017-07-06 16:55

As Crackas With Attitude hacker “Incursio” got handed a 2-year prison sentence for gaining unauthorized access to government computers and online accounts of a number of US government officials...

CopyCat Rooting Malware Hijacks 14 Million Android Devices (The Hackers News)
2017-07-06 09:17

A newly uncovered malware strain has already infected more than 14 Million Android devices around the world, earning its operators approximately $1.5 Million in fake ad revenues in just two...