The Android banking fraud malware known as SharkBot has reared its head once again on the official Google Play Store, posing as file managers to bypass the app marketplace's restrictions. A majority of the users who downloaded the rogue apps are located in the U.K. and Italy, Romanian cybersecurity company Bitdefender said in an analysis published this week. SharkBot, first … [Read more...] about This Android File Manager App Infected Thousands of Devices with SharkBot Malware
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Sluggish internet? Your router might be infected
You check your computer for viruses every week, update systems and programs promptly, use strong passwords and generally take care online… yet for some reason your internet is slow and some websites deny access? It could be malware not on your computer, but in the router. Why routers? Cybercriminals target routers largely for two reasons. First, because all network traffic goes … [Read more...] about Sluggish internet? Your router might be infected
Evasive Credit Card Skimmers Using Homograph Domains and Infected Favicon
Cybersecurity researchers today highlighted an evasive phishing technique that attackers are exploiting in the wild to target visitors of several sites with a quirk in domain names, and leverage modified favicons to inject e-skimmers and steal payment card information covertly."The idea is simple and consists of using characters that look the same in order to dupe users," … [Read more...] about Evasive Credit Card Skimmers Using Homograph Domains and Infected Favicon
QSnatch Data-Stealing Malware Infected Over 62,000 QNAP NAS Devices
Cybersecurity agencies in the US and UK yesterday issued a joint advisory about a massive ongoing malware threat infecting Taiwanese company QNAP's network-attached storage (NAS) appliances.Called QSnatch (or Derek), the data-stealing malware is said to have compromised 62,000 devices since reports emerged last October, with a high degree of infection in Western Europe and … [Read more...] about QSnatch Data-Stealing Malware Infected Over 62,000 QNAP NAS Devices
Websites have infected iPhones with spyware
The idea that iPhones are totally immune to threats has been debunked time after time. In fact, though the Apple smartphones may present a smaller target than Android devices, some say you can pick up all sorts of malware just by opening a dangerous website, without knowingly downloading and installing anything from that site. In this post, we find out whether that is … [Read more...] about Websites have infected iPhones with spyware