by | Oct 13, 2020 | Malware
Days after the US Government took steps to disrupt the notorious TrickBot botnet, a group of cybersecurity and tech companies has detailed a separate coordinated effort to take down the malware’s back-end infrastructure. The joint collaboration, which involved...
by | Oct 12, 2020 | Malware
Microsoft has warned about a new strain of mobile ransomware that takes advantage of incoming call notifications and Android’s Home button to lock the device behind a ransom note. The findings concern a variant of a known Android ransomware family dubbed...
by | Oct 8, 2020 | Malware
Facebook is a magnet for scammers, thieves and other bad actors looking to swindle and manipulate the social media giant’s vast pool of users. One group discovered by Facebook’s in-house researchers took such a sophisticated approach to bilking Facebook users that it...
by | Oct 7, 2020 | Malware
Cybersecurity researchers have taken the wraps off a new botnet hijacking Internet-connected smart devices in the wild to perform nefarious tasks, mostly DDoS attacks, and illicit cryptocurrency coin mining. Discovered by Qihoo 360’s Netlab security team, the...
