Malware

Attackers have been compromising popular online role-playing games from Aeria Games on unofficial websites, in order to infect players with a malware downloader called Joao, researchers from ESET have reported.

A newly discovered fileless cryptocurrency miner has been targeting the Asia-Pacific region, leveraging the EternalBlue Windows SMB exploit to drop a backdoor while abusing Microsoft WMI as its persistence mechanism.

When a valid file is uploaded and sent, LinkedIn's security protections scan the attachment for malicious activity, but attackers could bypass the security restrictions and attach a malicious file to the LinkedIn messaging service.

Botnets built exclusively from IoT devices have very much become a 'thing - thingbots - and they are now becoming a primary infrastructure for a future darknet according to a report from cybersecurity firm F5 Networks.

A new ransomware called SyncCrypt is using a unique method of downloading the malicious files that makes it very hard for an antivirus program to detect.