Malware

Arturas Samoilovas allegedly illegally accessed the computer network of Eaton Corporation and installed malware after he was denied a position at the company.

An app masquerading as a provider of downloadable content was, in actuality, a SMS trojan that could have subscriber victims to a daily feed that cost 37 cents per day.

A Cyphort Labs report provides an in-depth analysis of Backoff, BlackPOS and FrameworkPOS, malware used in some of the biggest breaches.

Using WireLurker malware, the attack plays off a vulnerability in third-party app stores to overwrite legitimate apps with malicious ones.

One-time passwords (OTPs) sent via SMS are increasingly the target of Android malware, the report by Javelin revealed.

The Kaspersky Labs Global Research and Analysis Team came across the campaign, which hides on the networks of hotels located in various countries.

Damballa observed the spike in infections, which followed a Backoff peak in Q3.

WireLurker was first observed infecting OS X systems when a user downloaded a trojanized app from a third-party store in China, and then infecting iOS devices that connected to the infected OS X system via USB.