malware

Earlier this March, cyber-security firm Kaspersky Labs released information on a newly discovered, highly advanced piece of malware dubbed Slingshot. The malware targeted Latvian-made Internet routers popular in the Middle East, Africa, and Southeast Asia. Kaspersky's reports reveal that the malware ...

Hackers are using a five-year-old security vulnerability to infect Linux servers with cryptocurrency-mining malware. The cryptojacking campaign exploits CVE-2013-2618, an old vulnerability in Cacti's Network Weathermap plug-in, an open source tool which is used by network administrators to visualise ...

That's more than any other industry surveyed. The survey revealed cloud security trends within particular industries. For example, malware is the most feared security threat by healthcare organizations (61 percent) and government entities (60 percent), although it is the second most significant concern for ...

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 ...

A highly advanced malware strain uncovered by Kaspersky Lab earlier this month was in fact developed by an elite US military unit, which was using it to track down militants associated with Islamic State and al-Qaeda. The malware's link to the US military, reported by a cybersecurity news website, means ...

It is hardly a surprise to learn that navigating to pirate websites entails a higher risk of running into malware. But a researcher from Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania, US, set out to quantify the risk that this 'free lunch' involves in a real-world setting. Having observed the online activities of 253 ...

Video: Android users fall victim to drive-by cryptocurrency miner. What is malware? Malware is shorthand for malicious software. It is software developed by cyber attackers with the intention of gaining access or causing damage to a computer or network, often while the victim remains oblivious to the fact ...