Malware

A new malware family has been discovered with belief that it has been in use for more than three years to target officials and organisations with ties to North Korea.

The Turla advanced persistent threat group appears to have recently created both a new multiplatform backdoor malware program called Kazuar, and a MacOS version of its Uroburos espionage rootkit.

Two recent cybertheft campaigns targeting South Koreans employed a three-stage downloader framework that installed the Blackmoon banking trojan on geo-targeted machines, according to a report Thursday from Fidelis.

Emotet, a banking trojan first reported in June 2014 targeting banks in Germany and Austria and later in Switzerland, has made its way to these shores.

The Cerber family of ransomware has spawned a new iteration, v6, in its continuing escalation to take the top spot from Locky, Trend Micro reported.

A music player app called Super Free Music Player managed to sneak its way passed Google's security measures and become legitimately uploaded to its Play store.