Fake IT bods on Microsoft Teams coax workers into installing malware
Unit 42 says attackers are posing as helpdesk staff and persuading employees to hand over remote control before dropping EtherRAT trojan
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Unit 42 says attackers are posing as helpdesk staff and persuading employees to hand over remote control before dropping EtherRAT trojan
Infosec buffs say Windows users could have been infected with a nasty trojan, while Mac users got off lightly
Credential and cryptocurrency theft, live surveillance, ransomware - an attacker's Swiss Army knife A new remote access trojan (RAT) being sold on cybercrime networks enables double extortion attacks on Windows machines by bundling ransomware and data theft, along with credential and cryptocurrency stealers, live surveillance, and a whole host of other illicit capabilities, all controllable from a centralized dashboard.…
Some coyotes hunt squirrels, this one hunts users' financial apps A new variant of the Coyote banking trojan abuses Microsoft's UI Automation (UIA), making it the first reported malware to use UIA for credential theft.…
Banking trojan still going strong as feds put bulletproof hosting point man behind bars The last of the three men said to be responsible for infecting Windows computers with the banking trojan Gozi has been sentenced to three years.…
DLL side-loading does the trick, again Cybercriminals are disguising the PlugX remote access trojan as a legitimate open-source Windows debugging tool to evade detection and compromise systems.…
Insert your Trojan joke here Security researchers at Microsoft have discovered a bug in macOS that lets malicious apps bypass Apple's Gatekeeper security software "for initial access by malware and other threats." …
And one designed to slip ransomware and data-stealing code onto infected machines URSNIF, the malware also known as Gozi that attempts to steal online banking credentials from victims' Windows PCs, is evolving to support extortionware.…
Beware what could be hiding in those LNK shortcuts A tool sold on the dark web that allows cybercriminals to build malicious shortcuts for delivering malware is being used in a campaign pushing a longtime .NET keylogger and remote access trojan (RAT) named Agent Tesla.…
Ah, nothing like a classic Trojan horse Watch out: someone is spreading cryptocurrency-mining malware disguised as legitimate-looking applications, such as Google Translate, on free software download sites and through Google searches.…