Ducktail social media marketing malware rears its head again

Ducktail social media marketing malware rears its head again

Cyber criminals targeting the accounts of social media users with an infostealer malware known as Ducktail are dramatically increasing their activity, and threat actors based out of Vietnam continue to drive the... Read more »
Gootkit Malware Continues to Evolve with New Components and Obfuscations

Gootkit Malware Continues to Evolve with New Components and Obfuscations

Jan 29, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Threat / Malware The threat actors associated with the Gootkit malware have made “notable changes” to their toolset, adding new components and obfuscations to their infection chains. Google-owned... Read more »
Beware: Malicious Mimics – Dangerous Malware Advertising Tactics Disguised as Popular Software Updates / Digital Information World

Beware: Malicious Mimics – Dangerous Malware Advertising Tactics Disguised as Popular Software Updates / Digital Information World

A new malware advertising campaign has been identified by researchers from HP, that simulates popular software to steal personal information from victims.This dangerous campaign is targeting users with fake updates for software... Read more »
SEO poisoning: Beware of suspicious links to avoid malware infections

SEO poisoning: Beware of suspicious links to avoid malware infections

Getting contaminated with malware isn’t simply clicking on an errant file, but it surely normally happens as a result of a complete ecosystem is created by attackers to idiot you into truly... Read more »
Hackers Use NullMixer and SEO to Spread Malware More Efficiently

Hackers Use NullMixer and SEO to Spread Malware More Efficiently

Security researchers from Kaspersky have noticed a brand new sequence of campaigns specializing in the malware device they named NullMixer. According to an advisory printed by the agency earlier in the present... Read more »
McAfee discovers an usual malware in Chrome extensions with over 1.4 million installations

McAfee discovers an usual malware in Chrome extensions with over 1.4 million installations

August 31, 2022: Security researchers at McAfee found an uncommon malicious utility in 5 Chrome extensions with over 1.4 million installs. Scammers disseminate the extensions in order to defraud e-commerce web sites.The... Read more »
Disk wiping malware knows no borders

Disk wiping malware knows no borders

Fortinet introduced the newest semiannual FortiGuard Labs Global Threat Landscape Report which revealed that ransomware risk continues to adapt with extra variants enabled by Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS). Additional highlights of the report: Work-from-anywhere... Read more »
Surge in Malware Downloads Driven by SEO-Based Techniques 

Surge in Malware Downloads Driven by SEO-Based Techniques 

Attackers are utilizing SEO (Search engine optimisation) methods to enhance the rating of malicious PDF information on search engines like google together with Google and Microsoft’s Bing, in accordance with a Netskope... Read more »
Electron Bot, modular SEO poisoning malware that can control your social networks

Electron Bot, modular SEO poisoning malware that can control your social networks

Imagine a virus able to coming into your social community accounts and beginning to act there with out you realizing it, giving likes, posting feedback… that’s what Electron Bot does. It has... Read more »
SolarMarker malware spread through advanced SEO poisoning

SolarMarker malware spread through advanced SEO poisoning

A malware actor used their very own model of SEO poisoning to distribute malicious recordsdata, in line with analysis printed Tuesday by Sophos. Sophos’ newest report issues SolarMarker, a backdoor and information-stealing... Read more »