Tag: Cybersecurity

French conglomerate Thales is set to acquire Tesserent, Australia's largest publicly traded cybersecurity company, in a $119.1 million deal.

Android malware which repackages legitimate apps and then releases them to a third-party store. Its main function is displaying ads.

Glupteba is a Windows backdoor which gradually matured into a botnet. By 2019 it included a C&C address update mechanism through public BitCoin lists.

Triada which was first spotted in 2016, is a modular backdoor for Android which grants admin privileges to download another malware.

It targets MSSQL databases and implants cryptomining modules on target machines. Tencent Security says that while they saw only infections on MSSQL servers.

Short for “malicious software”. It is specifically designed to disrupt, damage, or gain unauthorized access to a computer system.

IcedID is a banking Trojan which first emerged in September 2017. It spreads by mail spam campaigns and often uses other malwares like Emotet.

FormBook is an Infostealer targeting the Windows OS and was first detected in 2016. It is marketed as Malware as a Service (MaaS) in underground hacking forums.

The University of Rochester is currently conducting an investigation into a cybersecurity attack, as stated on its website.

Emotet is an advanced, self-propagating and modular Trojan. Emotet was once used to employ as a banking Trojan, and now is used as a distributer for other malware or malicious ...