Ransomware
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#BackSwap malware finds innovative ways to empty bank accounts
ESET researchers have discovered a piece of banking malware that employs a new technique to bypass dedicated browser protection measures Banking malware (also referred to as banker) has been decreasing in popularity among cybercrooks for a few years now, one of the reasons being that both anti-malware companies and […]
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Turla Mosquito: A shift towards more generic tools
ESET researchers have observed a significant change in the campaign of the infamous espionage group Turla is a notorious espionage group, and has been active for at least ten years. It came to light in 2008, when Turla breached the US Department of Defense [1]. Since then, there have been numerous security […]
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Trends 2018: The ransomware revolution
This is actually where I came in, nearly 30 years ago. The first malware outbreak for which I provided consultancy was Dr. Popp’s extraordinary AIDS Trojan, which rendered a victim’s data inaccessible until a ‘software lease renewal’ payment was made. And for a long time afterwards, there was not much else that […]
