Archive for August, 2016
Taxpayers over in Canada are being targeted by a large-scale fraud, where threat actors pretend to act on behalf of Canada Revenue Agency. Unsuspecting people have been receiving rogue emails, text messages and phone calls insisting that they pay an inexistent fiscal debt, claim a tax refund or receive INTERAC e-Transfer from CRA by submitting […]
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In pursuit of effective ways to serve malicious software to Windows computers, cybercrooks often bank on different types of social engineering. In one of the recent hoaxes, the criminals have been sending emails with rogue subpoenas allegedly on behalf of the Australian Federal Police. This scam, obviously, targets Australians and tries to infect their machines […]
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Security analysts have been noting a considerable volume of malware-tainted spam sent out from orderconfirmation@esab.co.uk. The emails titled “Order Confirmation-[random number string]” are disguised as if they were hailing from ESAB, a well-known manufacturer of industrial equipment. That’s not true, though. The menacing part of this phish is all about the .docm attachment that installs […]
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In the ongoing battle with crypto ransomware, the security industry is still lagging behind. What experts are mostly trying to do is revert the damage after the attack rather than prevent the predicament. In the case of the so-called Nemucod family of ransom Trojans, the contamination is usually beyond the reach of conventional antimalware. Delivered […]
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Although the Windows infection dubbed the Hitler-Ransomware isn’t currently in active real-world rotation, a couple of its characteristics are quite disturbing and make the sample a more hazardous threat than the commonplace ransom Trojans. The malicious specimen that researchers were able to spot and analyze appears to be buggy. It causes the compromised OS to […]
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Malware-stricken home appliances aren’t that much of a science fiction these days. Two ethical hackers took the floor at the Def Con 24 security event last week to demonstrate a proof-of-concept involving a compromise of a smart device. Andrew Tierney and Ken Munro with Pen Test Partners, a UK based penetration testing and security services […]
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There is a bevy of details and ties that can be deduced from just the name of the latest crypto infection dubbed “Cerber2”. The symptoms of an assault by this new ransomware threat include a muddle of encrypted, hence inaccessible .cerber2 files spawned across the infected computer, as well as scary warning messages that ask […]
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If someone anticipates a pleasurable online experience with the startgo123 service, it’s not that way in fact. This is one of the myriads of homepage and search hijackers floating around the worldwide web. First off, it’s malicious because people never really opt into using it – instead, their web browsers get literally invaded by this […]
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Searchboro.com and the underlying browser extension demonstrate the worst practices of browser hijacking. Windows users infected with this adware strain experience an abrupt interference with their custom online settings. Most of the time, it simply takes some attentiveness to avoid this sample as it propagates via software bundles where the default installation already includes the […]
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It doesn’t take a genius to grasp the business model behind hijackers like Youndoo.com. These PUAs (potentially unwanted applications) take control of their victims’ web browsers in order to ensure that certain portions of web traffic are being continuously obtained from all the infected Windows computers. There are tons of interested parties whose wet dream […]
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