Malware Attack

Google Play apps as well as unofficial mods of popular apps are being targeted by attackers to spread a dangerous malware, according to security researchers. Dubbed Necro trojan, this family of malware is capable of keylogging, stealing sensitive information, installing additional malware, remote execution of commands, and more. Two apps in the Goo...

Crypto hackers are using Clipper malware to manipulate transaction details and steal tokens. Android users and those using web applications in the crypto community face a higher risk of attack. People frequently copy wallet addresses during transactions. As per Binance, Clipper malware intercepts and alters this clipboard data.

CERT-In notes that these phishing attackers are also distributing Trojan malware, disguised as recovery tools.

Medusa, a banking Trojan, which was first identified in 2020, has reportedly returned with several new upgrades that make it more threatening. The new variant of the malware is also said to be targeting more regions than before. A report has found it to be active in Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Turkey, the UK, and the US. Medusa primarily attacks ...

Hackers have attacked Indian organisations on average 2,444 times per week in the last six months, compared to 1,151 attacks per organisation globally, a new report revealed on Thursday.

Israel launched a strike on Iranian soil on Friday, sources said, in the latest of the tit-for-tat exchanges between the regional arch foes whose long-running shadow war has broken into the open.

Britain denied the claims and said it has no records or evidence to suggest that networks at the Sellafield nuclear site were the victim of a cyber attack.

While major economies like the US and the UK witnessed a decline in ransomware attacks, India (up 133 percent) and Germany (52 percent) are among the countries that saw a huge surge in such attacks, the 2023 SonicWall Mid-Year Cyber Threat Report for the January-June period stated. At the global level, a variety of other attacks have trended up, in...

All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) New Delhi on Tuesday thwarted a malware attack on its servers, ensuring services remain fully secure and functional.

Microsoft has detected a security vulnerability that affects the system integrity protection feature on macOS and grants an attacker access to protected parts of the system. Dubbed "Migraine", the exploit could be used to infect a Mac with malware, gain high-level kernel access and enable rootkits.

India experienced a 31 per cent surge in malware attacks in 2022, which should prompt companies to intensify their efforts in safeguarding themselves against cyberattacks, said a SonicWall report.

A court in Maharashtra's Pune district has convicted 11 people in the Cosmos Bank cyber fraud case, in which hackers siphoned off more than Rs 94 crore through a malware attack over a period of two days in 2018, police said on Sunday.

WhatsApp has recently been working on a few updates and functionalities and has now rolled out three new security features for its users. The features include ‘account protect,’ ‘device verification,’ and ‘automatic security codes.’

A special cell of Delhi police has launched an investigation into the alleged malware attack in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi.

Lazarus, the hacker group backed by North Korea, sent phishing emails to Japanese crypto exchange employees. The hacker group has been using social engineering as a means to infect the computers of these local crypto firms with malware, to hack their systems and steal their cryptocurrencies, Japan’s National Police Agency has announced.

Google Play apps as well as unofficial mods of popular apps are being targeted by attackers to spread a dangerous malware, according to security researchers. Dubbed Necro trojan, this family of malware is capable of keylogging, stealing sensitive information, installing additional malware, remote execution of commands, and more. Two apps in the Goo...

Crypto hackers are using Clipper malware to manipulate transaction details and steal tokens. Android users and those using web applications in the crypto community face a higher risk of attack. People frequently copy wallet addresses during transactions. As per Binance, Clipper malware intercepts and alters this clipboard data.

CERT-In notes that these phishing attackers are also distributing Trojan malware, disguised as recovery tools.

Medusa, a banking Trojan, which was first identified in 2020, has reportedly returned with several new upgrades that make it more threatening. The new variant of the malware is also said to be targeting more regions than before. A report has found it to be active in Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Turkey, the UK, and the US. Medusa primarily attacks ...

Hackers have attacked Indian organisations on average 2,444 times per week in the last six months, compared to 1,151 attacks per organisation globally, a new report revealed on Thursday.

Israel launched a strike on Iranian soil on Friday, sources said, in the latest of the tit-for-tat exchanges between the regional arch foes whose long-running shadow war has broken into the open.

Britain denied the claims and said it has no records or evidence to suggest that networks at the Sellafield nuclear site were the victim of a cyber attack.

While major economies like the US and the UK witnessed a decline in ransomware attacks, India (up 133 percent) and Germany (52 percent) are among the countries that saw a huge surge in such attacks, the 2023 SonicWall Mid-Year Cyber Threat Report for the January-June period stated. At the global level, a variety of other attacks have trended up, in...

All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) New Delhi on Tuesday thwarted a malware attack on its servers, ensuring services remain fully secure and functional.

Microsoft has detected a security vulnerability that affects the system integrity protection feature on macOS and grants an attacker access to protected parts of the system. Dubbed "Migraine", the exploit could be used to infect a Mac with malware, gain high-level kernel access and enable rootkits.

India experienced a 31 per cent surge in malware attacks in 2022, which should prompt companies to intensify their efforts in safeguarding themselves against cyberattacks, said a SonicWall report.

A court in Maharashtra's Pune district has convicted 11 people in the Cosmos Bank cyber fraud case, in which hackers siphoned off more than Rs 94 crore through a malware attack over a period of two days in 2018, police said on Sunday.

WhatsApp has recently been working on a few updates and functionalities and has now rolled out three new security features for its users. The features include ‘account protect,’ ‘device verification,’ and ‘automatic security codes.’

A special cell of Delhi police has launched an investigation into the alleged malware attack in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi.

Lazarus, the hacker group backed by North Korea, sent phishing emails to Japanese crypto exchange employees. The hacker group has been using social engineering as a means to infect the computers of these local crypto firms with malware, to hack their systems and steal their cryptocurrencies, Japan’s National Police Agency has announced.