These medical devices could be easily encrypted with WannaCry ransomware
Since its irruption on scene in 2017, the WannaCry ransomware has become one of the main cybersecurity threats, especially for health service organizations, demonstrating the obsolescence of multiple...
View ArticleNew malware promises nude photos of your girlfriend or friend’s girlfriend
Researchers from a cyber security course have revealed the discovery of a dangerous new hacking tool. Identified as Raccoon, this is a powerful malware specifically developed for the theft of personal...
View ArticleCOVID-19 tracking app installs ransomware on your smartphone; be careful
When news of international relevance emerges, cybercriminals often try to take advantage of them to deceive people concerned about a particular issue, and the recent global emergency for coronavirus...
View ArticleNetWalker, a new ransomware variant created to shutdown hospitals
A few weeks ago, a hospital in a small region of Spain was the victim of a cybersecurity incident that disabled a part of its IT infrastructure. According to specialists in a malware analysis course...
View ArticleNew malware writes fake reviews in Amazon & Play Store using your Facebook...
A report published by digital forensics experts from Kaspersky details the activity of “Shopper”, a recently detected malicious app. According to this report, the malware hidden in this app has...
View ArticleThe Pykspa virus is hacking Skype calls and accounts
Remote work has become one of the main measures to prevent massive coronavirus contagion; to carry out their activities relatively normally, public and private companies around the world resort to the...
View ArticleThis man created ‘I Love You’ virus and infected 50 million computers
Malware has become such a common problem that sometimes little attention is paid to the people behind these developments, although sometimes computer virus creators gain some notoriety. According to...
View ArticleNew technique for firewall and antivirus evasion used by YouTube malware
The 2019 cybersecurity community was surprised by the emergence of Astaroth, a Trojan developed for information theft that quickly became one of the most popular malware variants. Now, cloud security...
View ArticleRansomware installs Win XP virtual machines to hide from antivirus & firewall
One of the main features of the ransomware is its ability to evolve and improve its capabilities to infect attacked systems. Specialists in a cyber security course reported the detection of a new...
View ArticleAvengers ransomware strikes Scammers to destroy their networks
Although the malicious hacking community is huge, it is fair to mention that there are also hackers dedicated to protecting less experienced users in the world of cybersecurity. Specialists in a...
View ArticleFake decryption tools for ransomware encrypting user files again
Although researchers and ethical hackers have made massive efforts against cybercrime, threat actors always find a way to compromise unsuspecting users, experts from a pentesting course say. Free...
View ArticleNew Avaddon Ransomware comes with your photo. And when you see your photo it...
One of the latest security threats detected by experts from a cyber security consulting company is the Avaddon ransomware, whose developers have been recruiting new threat actors and malware...
View ArticleNew ‘Black Lives Matter’ virus asks your vote to end with racism, but infects...
Phishing campaign operators often take advantage of social movements or issues of current interest, so a malicious email will have a better chance of misleading a target user, as mentioned by data...
View ArticleThanos: This Ransomware-as-a-Service tool can make anybody millionaire
One of the fastest growing trends in the cybercrime world over the past two years is ransomware as a service. In this operating model, ransomware developers put their malicious creations for sale so...
View ArticleNew McDonald’s virus in Facebook infects your device using a discount coupon
It is a fact known to the vast majority of Internet users that unsafe websites are riddled with malicious advertisements and that might even contain malware, although many ignore that this kind of...
View ArticleHow a lower screen resolution or cheap monitors can save you from a new virus...
The developers of the popular TrickBot Trojan have added a dangerous new feature. According to experts in secure data erasure, this malware is now able to verify the resolution of the victim’s screen...
View ArticleWhy do all hackers want it? Ransomware of Things (RoT), new cyber weapon
According to a report submitted by data security training specialists, one of the fastest growing cybercriminal trends over the past year is the use of extortion in cyberattacks, as they present a...
View ArticleCAPA, Fireye’s open source tool to analysis malware capabilities & functioning
Cybersecurity firm FireEye has launched a new open source tool called CAPA, which provides users with a framework dedicated to analyzing potentially malicious programs, as mentioned by malware reverse...
View ArticleWhy OpenBullet is the favorite account hijacking tool of Russians hackers?
2020 has been a prolific year for cybercrime; ransomware attacks, identity fraud and phishing campaigns are reported daily and in increasingly large amounts, as malware reverse engineering experts...
View ArticleQbot banking Trojan collects emails in Outlook to extract users’ sensitive data
Information security specialists consider the most dangerous security threats to be those that receive constant updates. An example of this is the Qbot banking Trojan (also known as Qakbot and...
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