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Malware Posing as Russia DDoS Tool Bites Pro-Ukraine Hackers

10

Mar

2022

Looking to cyber-hassle Russia, Ukrainian sympathizers? Be careful — malware is making the rounds, disguised as a pro-Ukraine cyber-tool that will turn around and bite you instead, researchers are warning. In a Wednesday threat advisory, Cisco Talos described a campaign it’s observed in which a threat actor was offering a supposed distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) tool […]

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Gaming, Banking Trojans Dominate Mobile Malware Scene

22

Feb

2022

The number of cyberattacks launched against mobile users was down last year, researchers have found — but don’t pop the champagne just yet. The decline was offset by jacked-up, more sophisticated, more nimble mobile nastiness. In a Monday report, Kaspersky said that its researchers have observed a downward trend in the number of attacks on […]

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Microsoft Teams Targeted With Takeover Trojans

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Feb

2022

Threat actors are targeting Microsoft Teams users by planting malicious documents in chat threads that execute Trojans that ultimately can take over end-user machines, researchers have found. In January, researchers at Avanan, a Check Point Company, began tracking the campaign, which drops malicious executable files in Teams conversations that, when clicked on, eventually take over […]

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