Enlarge / Never put a GriftHorse on your phone. (credit: John Lamparsky | Getty Images) Google has taken increasingly sophisticated steps to keep malicious apps out of Google Play. But a new round of takedowns involving about 200 apps and more than 10 million potential victims shows that this longtime problem …
The banking trojan keeps switching up its lies, trying to fool Android users into clicking on a fake Flubot-deleting app or supposedly uploaded photos of recipients. [...]
Access to heart monitors disabled by the attack allegedly kept staff from spotting blood & oxygen deprivation that led to the baby's death. [...]
Apple's personal item-tracker devices can be used to deliver malware, slurp credentials, steal tokens and more thanks to XSS. [...]
The mobile malware has fleeced hundreds of millions of dollars from victims globally, using sophisticated techniques. [...]
The Conti ransomware gang has developed novel tactics to demolish backups, especially the Veeam recovery software. [...]
Newly discovered code resembles the Kazuar backdoor and the Sunshuttle second-stage malware distributed by Nobelium in the SolarWinds supply-chain attacks. [...]
The BloodyStealer trojan helps cyberattackers go after in-game goods and credits. [...]
A 'nearly impossible to analyze' version of the malware sports a bootkit and 'steal-everything' capabilities. [...]
Microsoft is warning that the Nobelium APT is compromising single-sign-on servers to install a post-exploitation backdoor that steals data and maintains network persistence. [...]
Income level, education and being part of a disadvantaged population all contribute to cybercrime outcomes, a survey suggests. [...]
The mobile baddie grants itself access to almost everything, enabling spying, data-harvesting, stalking and fraud attacks, among others. [...]
After news of REvil's rip-off-the-affiliates backdoor & double chats, affiliates fumed, reiterating prior claims against the gang in "Hackers Court." [...]
Casey Ellis, founder, CTO and chairman of Bugcrowd, discusses a roadmap for lowering risk from cyberattacks most effectively. [...]
A custom "SparrowDoor" backdoor has allowed the attackers to collect data from targets around the globe. [...]
It's the second agricultural business to be seized this week and portends a bitter harvest with yet another nasty jab at critical infrastructure. [...]
A newly discovered backdoor and double chats could have enabled REvil ransomware-as-a-service operators to hijack victim cases and snatch affiliates’ cuts of ransom payments. [...]
VMware urged immediate patching of the max-severity, arbitrary file upload flaw in Analytics service, which affects all appliances running default 6.5, 6.7 and 7.0 installs. [...]
The action is the first of its kind in the U.S., as the government increases efforts to get a handle on cybercrime. [...]
Nick Kael, CTO at Ericom, discusses how phishing is gaining sophistication and what it means for businesses. [...]
“TinyTurla,” simply coded malware that hides away as a legitimate Windows service, has flown under the radar for two years. [...]
Critical infrastructure appears to be targeted in latest ransomware attack, diminishing the hopes of governments to curb such attacks. [...]
With the help of malicious insiders, a fraudster was able to install malware and remotely divorce iPhones and other handsets from the carrier's U.S. network -- all the way from Pakistan. [...]
Microsoft and RiskIQ researchers have identified several campaigns using the recently patched zero-day, reiterating a call for organizations to update affected systems. [...]
A spyware effort bent on stealing cookies and logins is being driven by unsophisticated attackers cashing in on the initial-access-broker boom. [...]