Malware

The five-year-old Trojan-Ransom.Win32.Rakhni family has received a facelift that now allows it to decide whether or not to install its traditional ransomware or to drop a cryptominer instead.

Researchers have uncovered an unusual malicious macro-based malware campaign that effectively modifies an infected user's shortcut files so that they secretly download a backdoor program.

Gamers who recently downloaded a Fortnite cheating app in order to gain an unfair advantage over fellow players found they had a hard time surviving a barrage of malicious ads that followed.

An updated version of the Smoke Loader malware downloader has been sampled in the wild and was found to contain one of the first successful uses of the PROPagate injection technique uses in an actual attack.

That number is about four times what Bleeping Computer normally sees being tracked by this type of malware.

Three of the vulnerabilities are rated important and successful exploitation of these issues may lead to information disclosure or may allow attackers with normal user privileges to crash their VMs.

The new feature will help protect users from remote attacks because unlike text message codes which can be intercepted, U2F uses a physical device such as a two-factor keyfob which requires a user to push a button to authorize a login.