Security researchers have found another instance of a malware strain abusing the Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS). The malware appears to be the work…
View More Newly discovered cyber-espionage malware abuses Windows BITS service
Anti-malware technology is one of the most basic cybersecurity mechanisms that organizations should have in place, but according to IT Governance’s 2019 Cyber Resilience Report,…
View More IT Governance’s 2019 Cyber Resilience Report reveals major data protection weaknesses
At the end of last week, ESET’s security researchers disclosed the discovery of a new strain of malware that takes the trend for sextortion to a new…
View More Nasty New Malware Waits Until You Visit A Porn Site, Then Starts Recording
Cameras are among the few devices that don’t connect to the internet, so you’d think they’d be immune to hackers. However, researchers have discovered that some DSLRs…
View More Even DSLR cameras are vulnerable to ransomware
One of the trickiest challenges enterprises face is managing the balance between aggressively blocking malicious advertisements (aka malvertising) and allowing content to remain online, accessible…
View More Malvertising: Online Advertisings’ Darker Side
The volume of destructive malware attacks has risen by 200% year-on-year in the first half of 2019, according to new data from IBM X-Force. Once…
View More Destructive Malware Goes Mainstream as Attacks Soar 200%
Researchers believe that nation-state actors are behind several spearphishing campaigns targeting U.S. utility companies with newly-identified malware, which has the capabilities to view system data…
View More Nation-State APTs Target U.S. Utilities With Dangerous Malware
Researchers from Skylight Cyber, an Australian cybersecurity enterprise, have tricked Blackberry Cylance’s AI-based antivirus product. They identified a peculiar bias of the antivirus product towards…
View More A universal bypass tricks Cylance AI antivirus into accepting all top 10 Malware
A hacker has been using links to a porn app to trick users into installing a new Android ransomware strain. The ransomware, dubbed “Android/Filecoder.C” has been circulating…
View More Hacker Uses Porn To Lure Victims to Download Android Ransomware
Marcus Hutchins, the researcher known for stopping WannaCry, avoids jail time over charges of creating and distributing Kronos malware. Marcus Hutchins, a security researcher known…
View More Malware Researcher Hutchins Sentenced to Supervised Release