Security News

Nemesis financial malware kit gains bootkit capabilities, extra stealth (Help Net Security)
2015-12-08 07:39

A threat group that steals mostly payment card data from financial services organizations has added a bootkit utility to their malware toolkit. This new capability assures the persistence of their mal...

Persistent Financial Malware ‘Nemesis’ Targets Boot Record (Threatpost)
2015-12-07 17:08

A group of attackers are behind a strain of payment card malware that has bootkit functionality, something that makes it very difficult to detect, much less remove. “FIN1,” the group behind the...

"Backstabbing" malware steals mobile backups via infected computers (Help Net Security)
2015-12-07 15:12

In this day and age, our mobile devices carry more personal and business information than any other electronic device. Is it any wonder, then, that attackers want to have access to them? But someti...

How Europol analyzes malware (Help Net Security)
2015-12-02 11:50

In the wake of the takedown of a major cybercriminal group wielding banking Trojans in Ukraine in June this year, Europol noted that it "provided crucial support to the investigation since 2013 includ...