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4 years, 4 months ago
TrickBot Takes a Break, Leaving Researchers Scratching Their Heads
The infamous trojan is likely making some major operational changes, researchers believe.
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Research is the systematic study of technologies, systems, attack methods, vulnerabilities, and defensive techniques to establish evidence and produce new findings. In information security, it includes work such as discovering flaws in software or protocols, analyzing malware and attacker behavior, testing cryptographic designs, and evaluating security controls. News under this tag may describe a proof of concept, a measurement study, or a proposed technique rather than a confirmed real-world attack.
For practitioners, research can change how risks are prioritized and mitigated. A demonstrated vulnerability may require vulnerability-management teams to verify affected assets, apply fixes, or add compensating controls; responsible disclosure gives developers time to assess and remediate before technical details enable exploitation. Research involving live systems, personal data, or offensive tooling also raises privacy, authorization, dual-use, and ethical concerns. Sound findings should state their assumptions, scope, limitations, and reproducibility, since laboratory results do not automatically show that an attack is practical in every environment.
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4 years, 4 months ago
Creaky Old WannaCry, GandCrab Top the Ransomware Scene
Nothing like zombie campaigns: WannaCry's old as dirt, and GandCrab threw in the towel years ago. They're on auto-pilot at this point, researchers say.
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4 years, 4 months ago
Gaming, Banking Trojans Dominate Mobile Malware Scene
The overall number of attacks on mobile users is down, but they're getting slicker, both in terms of malware functionality and vectors, researchers say.
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4 years, 4 months ago
Xenomorph Malware Burrows into Google Play Users, No Facehugger Required
Researchers discovered a new, modular banking trojan with ties to Cerberus and Alien that has the capability to become a much larger threat than it is now.