The Remote Access Trojan(RAT) empowered programmers to interface with a casualty's machine undetected. They could then incapacitate hostile to infection and against malware programming, complete orders, for example, checking and recording keystrok...

Earlier this month, three major chip manufacturers announced that vulnerabilities known as Meltdown and Spectre (CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5754) affected processors deployed in millions of devices. For the past year or so, FortiG...

A new online banking malware with the same technique used in Operation Emmental has been hitting users in Japan. Detected as TROJ_WERDLOD, this new malware has been causing problems in the country since December 2014 with more than 400 confirmed...

IBM Security team has found an active campaign using a variant of Dyre malware that has successfully stolen more than $1 million from targeted enterprise organizations.  The campaign, named “The Dyre Wolf” by IBM Security researchers, shows a b...

New targeted attack campaign against energy companies around the world, with a focus on the Middle East. This attack campaign used a new information stealer, detected by Symantec as Trojan.Laziok. Trojan.Laziok is acts as a reconnaissance tool tha...

A new wave of the Vawtrak banking Trojan is spreading worldwide. AVG Technologies has warned that Vawtrak gains access to bank accounts visited by the victim and uses the infamous Pony module for stealing a wide range of login credentials. Over t...

Cisco Security Team has found ia new malware family targeting PoS systems, infecting machines to scrape memory for credit card information and exfiltrate that data to servers, also primarily .ru TLD, for harvesting and likely resale. This new malw...

A new Crypto-Ransomware malware program attacks to extort money from gamers by encrypting game saves and other user-generated files for popular computer games. Data files for more than 20 games can be affected by the threat, increasing what is al...

Doctor Web security researchers have discovered a new malicious trojan embedded directly in the firmware of numerous Android handhelds. Dubbed Android.Becu.1.origin, this malicious program can download, install and remove programs without user...

The diverse nature of the attacks on Android devices in October once again clearly demonstrates that the threat from malicious software remains rather severe for Android users. Throughout the month, Doctor Web security researchers registered th...

Sending bulk SMS containing malware download links is now one of the most popular ways to distribute Android threats. Cybercriminals also use this malware delivery method to distribute malicious programs endowed with the functionality of SMS wo...

Fans of multiplayer games will surely remember autumn 2014 for the emergence of threats specially crafted by cybercriminals to steal and subsequently resell game assets, including equipment and other items. Dota 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offens...

Autumn 2014 proved to be rich in malware targeting gamers. In September, Doctor Web issued a report about Trojan.SteamBurglar.1 which had been stealing valuable Game assets from Dota 2 users. Apparently, the criminals decided to take things furth...

Doctor Web's security researchers have discovered a malicious dialler program that infects Android handhelds and possesses a strong self-defence mechanism. Malicious programs that make expensive calls without user consent are by no means a nove...

In September, a number of new threats to Mac OS X were discovered by Doctor Web's security researchers. They included the complex backdoor Mac.BackDoor.iWorm as well as the Trojan Mac.BackDoor.Ventir.1 and the spyware program Mac.BackDoor.XSLCmd....

As in previous months, in September Doctor Web's security researchers registered multiple attacks on handhelds. In particular, the Dr.Web virus database was expanded to include numerous definitions of threats to Android involving banking Trojans,...

At the end of September, Doctor Web issued a report about the new Trojan program Trojan.SteamBurglar.1, which steals game items from Steam users, particularly Dota 2 fans. So far Doctor Web's security researchers have learnt about several dozen m...