Malware

Cybercriminals on average have a week to attack before potential victims even know they're vulnerable.

The arrest of several leaders of the Cobalt cybergang, including its leader, has not stopped the group from launching additional attacks with the most recent being tracked late last week.

The FIFA World Cup is set to start in less than two weeks, and just like the Seoul Winter Olympics cybercriminals are lining up to take advantage of fans searching for tickets or deals.

A newly discovered banking malware that's been actively targeting Brazilians behaves as a remote access trojan (RAT) and uses a Microsoft SQL Server database server as an unconventional command-and-control infrastructure.

A new banking malware called BackSwap has replaced tricky conventional browser injections with a simpler browser manipulation technique that can URLs for banking activity by hooking key window message loop events.

Using a variant of the Trisis malware, which was used in a 2017 attack in Saudi Arabia, Xenotime is aimed at the safety instrumental control systems that safeguard industrial systems in energy and manufacturing plants.

New tools and techniques used by the Confucius cybergangs suggest further connections between the group and the Patchwork cybergang.