Archive for the ‘cybercrime/malcode’ category: Page 169
Jul 12, 2019
TrickBot malware may have hacked 250 million email accounts
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: cybercrime/malcode
TrickBot malware may have stolen as many as 250 million email accounts, including some belonging to governments in the US, UK and Canada. The malware isn’t new. In fact, it’s been circulating since 2016. But according to cybersecurity firm Deep Instinct, it has started harvesting email credentials and contacts. The researchers are calling this new approach TrickBooster, and they say it first hijacks accounts to send malicious spam emails and then deletes the sent messages from both the outbox and trash folders.
Jul 12, 2019
EU to run war games to prepare for Russian and Chinese cyber-attacks
Posted by Derick Lee in category: cybercrime/malcode
Last week the EU’s leaders committed at a summit in Brussels to “a coordinated response to hybrid and cyber-threats” and asked the European commission and member states to “work on measures to enhance the resilience and improve the security culture” of the bloc.
Ministers to be put in fictional scenarios after series of hacking incidents.
Jul 10, 2019
25 Million Android Devices Infected
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: cybercrime/malcode, robotics/AI
Malware researchers discovered a new malicious campaign for Android devices that replaces legitimate apps with tainted copies built to push advertisements or hijack valid ad events.
Around 25 million devices have already been infected with what researchers have dubbed “Agent Smith,” after users installed an app from an unofficial Android store.
Jul 10, 2019
Microsoft Confirms Windows ‘Great Duke Of Hell’ Malware Attack
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: cybercrime/malcode
Astaroth is, as demonologists will tell you, the Great Duke of Hell and part of the evil trinity. Microsoft, however, is warning that Astaroth malware is attacking Windows users with a fileless “invisible man” methodology. Here’s what you need to know.
Jul 3, 2019
Dozens of Facebook pages about current events in Libya were linked to malware
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: cybercrime/malcode
Attackers would use the pages to post malicious URLs, disguising the links as news or mobile applications. Facebook said it removed the pages — which collectively had hundreds of thousands of followers — after notification from researchers…
Jul 1, 2019
Malware Defense: Protecting Against Polymorphic Malware
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: cybercrime/malcode
So everything we just said about metamorphic and polymorphic malware also applies to metamorphic and polymorphic ransomware.
Metamorphic and Polymorphic Malware Families
With consistent functionalities regardless of code, malware is often grouped into families so security teams can look for similar functions and code segments in efforts to protect their organizations. Some of the most well-known malware families include:
Jul 1, 2019
The Worm That Nearly Ate the Internet
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: cybercrime/malcode, internet
Today, thanks to extraordinary sleuthing by the F.B.I. and some of the world’s premier cybersecurity experts, there are answers to these questions. They offer an unsettling reminder of the remarkable sophistication of a growing network of cybercriminals and nation states — and the vulnerability of not just our computers, but the internet itself.
It infected 10 million computers. So why did cybergeddon never arrive?
Credit Credit Cathryn Virginia
Jun 30, 2019
If you can pick up an electromagnetic phone call, if you can get an EEG, you can apply the same science to all electromagnetic waves, EVERY ELECTRON IN THE UNIVERSE THAT’S IN MOTION CREATES AN ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE
Posted by Richard Christophr Saragoza in categories: cybercrime/malcode, science
Jun 22, 2019
An AI “Vaccine” Can Block Adversarial Attacks
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, cybercrime/malcode, information science, robotics/AI
For as smart as artificial intelligence systems seem to get, they’re still easily confused by hackers who launch so-called adversarial attacks — cyberattacks that trick algorithms into misinterpreting their training data, sometimes to disastrous ends.
In order to bolster AI’s defenses from these dangerous hacks, scientists at the Australian research agency CSIRO say in a press release they’ve created a sort of AI “vaccine” that trains algorithms on weak adversaries so they’re better prepared for the real thing — not entirely unlike how vaccines expose our immune systems to inert viruses so they can fight off infections in the future.