The Malware tag covers malware families, infrastructure analysis, incident impact, disruption efforts, and defensive guidance to reduce cybersecurity risk.
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Malware is software intentionally created or modified to perform unauthorized or harmful actions on a computer, device, or network. The term covers distinct families and functions, including viruses, worms, trojans, spyware, botnet clients, and ransomware; a single sample may combine several capabilities. Its behavior—not its label—determines the security concern: it may execute code, persist, alter or encrypt data, steal credentials, or provide unauthorized remote access.
For practitioners, malware reporting is most useful when it identifies the family or tool conservatively and provides evidence such as affected platforms, samples, infrastructure, or observed behavior. Defenses include promptly patching vulnerable software, restricting execution and privileges, monitoring endpoints and networks, maintaining tested backups, and isolating suspected systems for analysis. Detection should use behavior and verified indicators rather than names alone, since variants change. If malware processes personal or regulated data, investigations should also address privacy, evidence preservation, and applicable reporting obligations.
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Last year Google banned 173,000 developer accounts and prevented 1.5 million apps from reaching the Play Store as it fought policy violations and malware.
An old threat actor is making its comeback, sending around their old malware with a new tint.
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New CrowdStrike Falcon platform integration delivers multi-cloud visibility and protection of data assets with layered malware detection and file scanning to stop modern attacks.
Researchers are unraveling the threads connecting two separate, but in some ways overlapping, Russian-language APTs.