The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in collaboration with Canadian Cyber Incident Response Centre (CCIRC), is releasing this Alert to provide further information on ransomware, specifically its main characteristics, its prev...

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...

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...

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....

Everyone knows that video gaming is a highly competitive, billion-dollar market. Many multiplayer games offer users from all corners of our planet to immerse themselves in sophisticated virtual worlds. Such gaming universes often feature their o...

The last summer month of 2014 witnessed not only a large number of encryption Trojans in action but also a myriad of malicious programs displaying annoying (and sometimes fraudulent) ads in an effort to generate revenue for the criminals behind t...

More than 1,000 US companies have been infected with a malicious program that targets point-of-sale systems and steals credit- and debit-card data. United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team issued a statement saying that the “Backoff” malwa...

In the modern IT world, it often happens that applications and games designed for one operating system are later ported to another one. This doesn't happen that often with malware. Cases of Linux malware being tailored by virus makers to infect ...

Various locker Trojans, which have been appearing lately with alarming frequency, are becoming a more severe threat to Android handhelds. Once an infected smartphone or tablet is locked, these programs demand that the user pay a ransom which can ...

In spite of this being the height of the summer holiday season, many cybercriminals aren’t giving a second thought to taking a “well-earned” rest; instead they are continuing their attacks on Android devices. Turning an illicit profit remains one...

New malware targeting Linux and Unix Nginx web servers, malware authors not only make user of far better network connections and more powerful servers than the average Windows PC, servers are also less likely to be updated on a regular basis and t...

Malware developed by the Russian intelligence service has been leaked to cyber-criminals and has been incorporated into "ransomware" and online banking Trojan toolkits. That is the claim of Udi Shamir, chief research officer at threat analysis co...

Banking trojan are spreading through adult websites, banking trojan named as the Win32/Aibatook. Win32/Aibatook is a trojan that steals passwords and other sensitive information. The trojan attempts to send gathered information to a remote machi...

Malcovery identified a new trojan based heavily on the GameOver Zeus binary. It was distributed as the attachment to three spam email templates, utilizing the simplest method of infection through which this trojan is deployed.  Cyber criminals ar...

An international operation involving law enforcement agencies and private sector companies is driving down the threat from a type of malicious software used by criminals to steal from bank accounts called Shylock.  This malware infected to at lea...