Cybercrime: PsiXBot malware has evolved with a Porn Module
Proofpoint cyber security experts: The new feature allows attackers to capture audio-video on the infected machine if a window match pornography-related keywords. It’s used for sextortion.
Cybercrime, the new TrickBot dropper analyzed in depth
Yoroi-Cybaze ZLab cyber security experts discover that is composed by several thousand highly obfuscated Lines of Code and abusing the so-called ADS (Alternate Data Stream).
Mobile, cybercrime spread Joker malware in 37 targeted countries
CSIS Security Group cyber security experts: The Android trojan designed to sign users up for premium services, and to steal victim’s SMS messages, contact list and device information.
Cybercrime spread Nemty ransomware via a fake Paypal page
The cyber security experts: The malware ask for 0.09981 Bitcoin to unlock the files and doesn’t affect computers in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, or Ukraine.
Cybercrime, GootKit is evolving: Now it can bypass Windows Defender
JamesWT and Vitali Kremez cyber security experts: The malware, a banking trojan, can be excluded from being scanned thanks to a UAC bypass and WMIC commands.
Cybercrime updated JSWorm ransomware to version 4
Yoroi-Cybaze ZLab cyber security experts: The malware uses a set of extensions to exclude during the cipher step. It encrypts all files whose extension is not present in the list.
Cybercrime exploit textbooks and essays to spread malware between students
Kaspersky cyber security experts: On 356,000 attacks against users in field of education, 233,000 were through malicious essays and 122,000 via downloaders disguised as textbooks.
WordPress, the ongoing malvertising campaign is evolving
WordFence cyber security experts: Cybercrime add backdoors and target new plugins to inject malicious JavaScript into sites. It redirects to harmful content, as malware droppers and fraud sites.
Avast cooperates with France and FBI to stop Retadup cryptomining worm
The cyber security experts: The malware controlled over 850,000 computers, mainly in Latin America, to create Monero; but the cybercrime C&C servers were in Paris Region and USA.
Fortnite gamers could be safe from Syrk ransomware thanks to Emsisoft
Cyber security experts release a free decryption tool to unlock the data. This despite the fact the malware currently ships with its own decryptor. Using it it’s too dangerous.