Malware

Anti-malware security vendors have warned that Mac malware is on the rise, and that the perception of Macs as being completely 'safe' is misleading.

The MuddyWater APT campaign appears to be rising to the surface again with researchers finding similarities between this older cyberespionage attack and a new one targeting Turkey, Pakistan and Tajikistan.

The Hacking Team is back to developing spyware as previously unreported samples of its infamous surveillance RCS tool were reportedly spotted in the wild.

Like any other major sporting event that draws millions of viewers, March Madness will attract bad actors trying steal money and wreak havoc.

A cyber espionage campaign bearing all of the hallmarks of an extremely advanced nation-state actor used malware to spy on international targets for six years before it was finally detected and exposed, Kaspersky Lab reported on Friday.

The hackers who injected malicious code into a version of computer maintenance app CCleaner last year may have been preparing to deliver third-stage malware to at least a select few of the 2.27 million computers that had downloaded the tainted utility program.

Microsoft said it discovered and stopped a large attack that attempted to use variants of the Dofoil, or Smoke Loader, trojan to spread a cryptocurrency miner.

A newly discovered and unusually sophisticated cryptojacking attack attempts to install cryptominers on both database and application servers by targeting misconfigured Redis servers, as well as Windows servers that are susceptible to the EternalBlue NSA exploit.