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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • July 4th, 2016
HawkEye Keylogger Users Employ Hacked Emails Accounts to Receive Stolen Data

HawkEye Keylogger Users Employ Hacked Emails Accounts to Receive Stolen Data

They also leverage RTF exploits to infect users

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • July 3rd, 2016
Satana Ransomware Encrypts Your Boot Record and Prevents Your PC from Starting

Satana Ransomware Encrypts Your Boot Record and Prevents Your PC from Starting

Petya lookalike appears, but in early stages of development

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • July 1st, 2016
6 Banking Trojans Hit Canada: Dridex, Gootkit, Kronos, Ursnif, Vawtrak, and Zeus

6 Banking Trojans Hit Canada: Dridex, Gootkit, Kronos, Ursnif, Vawtrak, and Zeus

The attacks are likely a weird coincidence

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • July 1st, 2016
Free Decrypter Available for Unlock92 Ransomware

Free Decrypter Available for Unlock92 Ransomware

Users can recover their files without paying the ransom

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • June 30th, 2016
Chinese Hackers Make $500,000 per Day from New Hummer Android Malware

Chinese Hackers Make $500,000 per Day from New Hummer Android Malware

Hummer is infecting around one million new devices each day

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • June 29th, 2016
Apocalypse Ransomware Spreads via Unsecured RDP Connections

Apocalypse Ransomware Spreads via Unsecured RDP Connections

Apocalypse coders don't react like gentlemen when an Emsisoft researcher cracks their ransomware, twice

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • June 29th, 2016
EduCrypt Gives Users a Scolding for Falling Victim to Ransomware

EduCrypt Gives Users a Scolding for Falling Victim to Ransomware

Users can recover their files after an EduCrypt infection

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • June 28th, 2016
Malicious Android App Steals Viber Photos and Videos

Malicious Android App Steals Viber Photos and Videos

New Android.Vibleaker malware found on the Google Play Store

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • June 26th, 2016
Retefe Banking Trojan Uses Root Certificate to Target Customers of UK Banks

Retefe Banking Trojan Uses Root Certificate to Target Customers of UK Banks

Torjan also hijacks local proxy settings

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • June 26th, 2016
MIRCOP Ransomware Poses as Robbed Anonymous Member

MIRCOP Ransomware Poses as Robbed Anonymous Member

Ransomware crooks take a different approach to extorting cash from their victims, use threatening messages

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • June 25th, 2016
Bart Ransomware Locks Files as Individual Password-Protected ZIP Archives

Bart Ransomware Locks Files as Individual Password-Protected ZIP Archives

There are a lot of similarities between Bart and Locky

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • June 24th, 2016
Ukrainian Group May Be Behind New DELoader Malware

Ukrainian Group May Be Behind New DELoader Malware

DELoader trojan targets German-speaking users

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • June 23rd, 2016
Six Malicious Android Apps Removed from the Google Play Store

Six Malicious Android Apps Removed from the Google Play Store

Google removes adware and click-fraud apps from app store

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • June 23rd, 2016
Researchers Hack Their Way into Punkey PoS Malware Backend

Researchers Hack Their Way into Punkey PoS Malware Backend

Criminals infected over 200 US businesses with PunkeyPOS

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • June 22nd, 2016
GozNym Banking Trojan Hits the US with Redirection Attacks

GozNym Banking Trojan Hits the US with Redirection Attacks

Banking trojan borrows trick from Dyre and Dridex

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • June 22nd, 2016
Top 10 Malware Threats - May 2016 Edition

Top 10 Malware Threats - May 2016 Edition

Conficker, Tinba and Sality make up the Top 3

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • June 21st, 2016
Nemucod Ransomware Uses JavaScript and PHP Concoction to Infect Users

Nemucod Ransomware Uses JavaScript and PHP Concoction to Infect Users

Nemucod ransomware makes a comeback after security researchers cracked one of its earlier iterations

 
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