Tag: Malware
US, UK intel agencies warn against new crypto malware: Report
An advisory report issued by government agencies in the United States and the United Kingdom warns users to beware of new malware being used to target [...]
BlackBerry reveals top crypto-focused malware amid rising cyberthreats
In the process of stopping over 1.5 million cyberattacks between March to May, the cybersecurity arm of the defunct smartphone goliath BlackBerry iden [...]
U.S. Hunts Chinese Malware That Could Disrupt American Military Operations
The Biden administration is hunting for malicious computer code it believes China has hidden deep inside the networks controlling power grids, communi [...]
Malware Discovered in Guam Raises a Question: Is China Prepping the Battlefield?
Around the time that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was examining the equipment recovered from the wreckage of the Chinese spy balloon shot down [...]
U.S. Says It Dismantled Russia’s ‘Most Sophisticated’ Malware Network
WASHINGTON — The United States and its allies have dismantled a major cyberespionage system that it said Russia’s intelligence service had used for ye [...]
ChatGPT and AI the newest vector for malware: Meta security team
Artificial intelligence tools, such as ChatGPT, have become the latest way for “bad actors” to distribute malware, scams and spam — research from Meta [...]
Crypto investors under attack by two new malware, reveals Cisco Talos
Anti-malware software Malwarebytes highlighted two new forms of malicious computer programs propagated by unknown sources that are actively targeting [...]
Google Ads-delivered malware drains NFT influencer’s entire crypto wallet
An NFT influencer claims to have lost “a life-changing amount” of their net worth in nonfungible tokens (NFTs) and crypto after accidentally downloadi [...]
German regulator warns of new banking and crypto malware ‘Godfather’
Financial authorities in Germany are raising the alarm amid the rapid spread of a new financial malware affecting banking and cryptocurrency applicati [...]
Fake Pokémon NFT game spreads malware, ‘Jai Ho’ singer to launch metaverse and more
Hackers hide malware in fake NFT gameA phishing website purporting to offer a Pokémon-branded nonfungible token (NFT) card game has been spreading mal [...]
Crypto app targeting SharkBot malware resurfaces on Google app store
A newly upgraded version of a banking and crypto app targeting malware has recently resurfaced on the Google Play store, now with the capability to st [...]
GitHub faces widespread malware attacks affecting projects, including crypto
Major developer platform GitHub faced a widespread malware attack and reported 35,000 “code hits” on a day that saw thousands of Solana-based wallets [...]
PennyWise crypto-stealing malware spreads through YouTube
A new strain of crypto-malware is being spread via YouTube, tricking users to download software that’s designed to steal data from 30 crypto wallets a [...]
U.S. Says It Secretly Removed Malware Worldwide, Pre-empting Russian Cyberattacks
Another attack occurred on Feb. 24, the day that Russia invaded Ukraine, when hackers knocked Viasat offline. The attack flooded modems with malicious [...]
Google Cloud Adds Crypto Mining Malware Threat Detection Service
Google’s new Virtual Machine Threat Detection (VMTD) will be able to identify threats from coin mining, data exfiltration and ransomware.
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