The most recent version of the TrickBot banking trojan now includes a screenlocker component, suggesting the malware’s operators might soon start holding victims for ransom if infected targets don’t appear to be e-banking users. The good news is that the screenlocker mechanism is not fully functional just yet, and appears […]

AMD concluded its investigation on the vulnerabilities recently discovered by CTS Labs and announced that security patches will be released very soon. AMD has finally acknowledged 13 critical vulnerabilities and exploitable backdoors in its Ryzen and EPYC processors that were first disclosed earlier March by the researchers at the security firm CTS […]

Purdue University scientists have developed a data protection technique called Reactive Redundancy for Data Destruction (R2D2) that can protect data sitting inside a virtual machine from modern data-wiping malware and even some secure file deletion methods. Researchers say the new technique was successful in preventing wiper malware such as Shamoon (v1 and […]

It is just another day with just another ATM malware targeting unsuspecting users – This time, the malware comes with cloning capabilities. According to the findings of Kaspersky Lab researchers, an old point-of-sale malware program Prilex has now been transformed into a full-fledged tool suite that allows cyber-crooks steal PIN card and […]

Legitimate and large-scale cryptocurrency mining operations often invest in dedicated hardware and electric consumption to make a profit. This doesn’t escape the attention of cybercriminals: Malicious cryptocurrency mining was so pervasive last year that it was the most detected network event in devices connected to home routers. Through our incident response-related monitoring, we observed intrusion attempts […]