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Dangerous malware stealing bitcoin hosted on Download.com for years
ESET researchers dicovered that Trojanized applications used to steal bitcoin were hosted inadvertently by the popular website download.cnet.com. Peter Kálnai and Michal Poslušný In today’s day and age, when you ask a security expert about some basic tips to stay safe on the web, one of the most important things he will […]
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OceanLotus ships new backdoor using old tricks
To smuggle the backdoor onto a targeted machine, the group uses a two-stage attack whereby a dropper package first gains a foothold on the system and sets the stage for the backdoor itself. This process involves some trickery commonly associated with targeted operations of this kind. Tomáš Foltýn ESET researchers […]
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New traces of Hacking Team in the wild
Since being founded in 2003, the Italian spyware vendor Hacking Team gained notoriety for selling surveillance tools to governments and their agencies across the world. The capabilities of its flagship product, the Remote Control System (RCS), include extracting files from a targeted device, intercepting emails and instant messaging, as well […]
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Global police test their cyber-chops in simulated IoT attack
Cybercrime investigators from across the world joined a training exercise recently that had them dealing with a simulated attack launched through an Internet-of-Things (IoT) device. A total of 43 investigators and experts in digital forensics from 23 countries investigated the would-be attack on a bank. The exercise, called the ‘INTERPOL Digital Security Challenge’, was organized by […]
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