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Banload Trojan Targets Brazilians With Malware Downloads
McAfee Labs has recently encountered new variants of the Banload Trojan. Banload has been around since the last decade. This...
Bank Account Logins for Sale, Courtesy of Citadel Botnet
Financial theft is one of the most lucrative forms of cybercrime. Malware authors continue to deliver sophisticated tools and techniques...
BackOff Malware Uses Encryption to Hide Its Intentions
Often we see malware authors using encryption or obfuscation along with other techniques to modify the static contents of malware....
Babuk: Biting off More than they Could Chew by Aiming to Encrypt VM and *nix Systems?
Co-written with Northwave’s Noël Keijzer. Executive Summary For a long time, ransomware gangs were mostly focused on Microsoft Windows operating...
Babuk Ransomware
Executive Summary Babuk ransomware is a new ransomware threat discovered in 2021 that has impacted at least five big enterprises,...
Avaya Deskphone: Decade-Old Vulnerability Found in Phone’s Firmware
Avaya is the second largest VOIP solution provider (source) with an install base covering 90% of the Fortune 100 companies...
Automotive Security Moves Into Cyber Realm
The focus on the security of automobiles and the transportation sector as a whole (planes, trains, etc.) is steadily increasing....
Automatic App Installation from Google Play Poses Big Risk
Android users usually download and install applications from the Google Play store through several interactions with the service–including viewing the...
AutoIt and Malware: What’s the Connection?
During the last couple of weeks I’ve come across three malware samples packed using compiled AutoIt scripts, so I decided...