Bitdefender researchers spotted three new Pacifier APT backdoor components that appear to link the group's cyberespionage campaigns against government institutions to the Russia-linked Turla Group.
A social engineering scam orchestrated by the ElTest hacking group just had its final payload switched from ransomware to a remote access trojan, indicating a possible change in motive, researchers at Palo Alto Networks have reported.
A free remote access trojan builder kit that was recently observed in cybercrime forums secretly contains an injected backdoor module that allows the kit's authors to take over the malware later, unbeknownst to the attackers wielding it.
A large malspam campaign using spoofed email addresses has attempted to infect recipients with ransomware in roughly 20 million detected attacks since Tuesday, researchers from Barracuda Networks have reported.
As technology improves and merges malware with artificial intelligence, timeless methods such as covering ones mouth may become more important than ever.
