Operator of VirusTotal Like Malware-Scanning Service Jailed for 14 Years

tháng 9 22, 2018

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VirusTotal

A Latvian hacker behind the development and operation of counter antivirus service "Scan4You" has finally been sentenced to 14 years in prison.

37-year-old Ruslans Bondars, described as a Latvian "non-citizen" or "citizen of the former USSR who had been residing in Riga, Latvia," was found guilty on May 16 in federal court in Alexandria, during which a co-conspirator revealed he had worked

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Mirai Botnet Creators Helping FBI Fight Cybercrime to Stay Out of Jail

tháng 9 19, 2018

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mirai malware

Three young hackers who were sentenced late last year for creating and spreading the notorious Mirai botnet are now helping the FBI to investigate other "complex" cybercrime cases in return to avoid their lengthy prison terms.

Paras Jha, 21 from New Jersey, Josiah White, 20 from Washington, and Dalton Norman, 21 from Louisiana, plead guilty in December 2017 to multiple charges for their role

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Ransomware Attack Takes Down Bristol Airport's Flight Display Screens

tháng 9 17, 2018

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ransomware attack

Bristol Airport has blamed a ransomware attack for causing a blackout of flight information screens for two days over the weekend.

The airport said that the attack started Friday morning, taking out several computers over the airport network, including its in-house display screens which provide details about the arrival and departure information of flights.

The attack forced

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Someone Hijacked MEGA Chrome Extension to Steal Users' Passwords

tháng 9 05, 2018

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password stealer

Warning! If you are using Chrome browser extension from the MEGA file storage service, uninstall it right now.

The official Chrome extension for the MEGA.nz cloud storage service had been compromised and replaced with a malicious version that can steal users' credentials for popular websites like Amazon, Microsoft, Github, and Google, as well as private keys for users' cryptocurrency wallets.

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Thousands of MikroTik Routers Hacked to Eavesdrop On Network Traffic

tháng 9 04, 2018

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router malware

Last month we reported about a widespread crypto-mining malware campaign that hijacked over 200,000 MikroTik routers using a previously disclosed vulnerability revealed in the CIA Vault 7 leaks.

Now Chinese security researchers at Qihoo 360 Netlab have discovered that out of 370,000 potentially vulnerable MikroTik routers, more than 7,500 devices have been compromised to enable Socks4 proxy

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New Android Malware Framework Turns Apps Into Powerful Spyware

tháng 8 23, 2018

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mobile spyware

Security researchers have uncovered a new, powerful Android malware framework that is being used by cybercriminals to turn legitimate apps into spyware with extensive surveillance capabilities—as part of what seems to be a targeted espionage campaign.

Legitimate Android applications when bundled with the malware framework, dubbed Triout, gain capabilities to spy on infected devices by recording

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Dark Tequila Banking Malware Uncovered After 5 Years of Activity

tháng 8 21, 2018

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Mexico Hackers

Security researchers at Kaspersky Labs have uncovered a new, complex malware campaign that has been targeting customers of several Mexican banking institutions since at least 2013.

Dubbed Dark Tequila, the campaign delivers an advanced keylogger malware that managed to stay under the radar for five years due to its highly targeted nature and a few evasion techniques.

Dark Tequila has

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Researchers Developed Artificial Intelligence-Powered Stealthy Malware

tháng 8 09, 2018

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Malware

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been seen as a potential solution for automatically detecting and combating malware, and stop cyber attacks before they affect any organization.

However, the same technology can also be weaponized by threat actors to power a new generation of malware that can evade even the best cyber-security defenses and infects a computer network or launch an attack only

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