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New Shlayer Malware Variant Targeting Macs
Security researchers have found a new variant of a trojan program dubbed Shlayer that infects Mac computers and disables the macOS Gatekeeper security agent. Shlayer was discovered a year ago by researchers ...
Trojan Infects Browser Extensions After Disabling Integrity Checks
Security researchers have discovered a new Trojan program dubbed Razy that installs itself as a browser extension or infects existing browser extensions after disabling integrity checks. According to researchers from Kaspersky Lab, ...
Email Spam Campaign Targets U.S. Retail, Restaurant Sectors
A cybercriminal group has launched a malware campaign via personalized spear-phishing emails against large retail, restaurant and grocery chains in the United States, as well as against other organizations from the food ...
APT28 Pulls Out New Malware Cannon
The notorious Russian cyberespionage group known as APT28, Fancy Bear and Sofacy is targeting government organizations using a new Trojan program called Cannon. Researchers from Palo Alto Networks detected new spear-phishing campaigns ...
Spyware Pushers Modify Equation Editor Exploit to Bypass AV Detection
In a case that shows you can teach an old exploit new tricks, a group of attackers who push information-stealing malware modified a well-known exploit in a way that it bypasses detection ...
Cyberespionage Campaign in Ukraine Uses Free and Custom RATs
Security researchers have been tracking a sustained cyberespionage campaign against Ukrainian government institutions that uses a combination of free and custom-made remote access Trojans (RATs). The malware programs involved in the years-long ...
Insecure Elasticsearch Nodes Host Malware Command-and-Control Servers
More than 4,000 misconfigured Elasticsearch nodes, most of them running on Amazon Web Services’ platform, have been hijacked by attackers to host malware command-and-control servers. The compromised nodes were discovered by researchers ...
