Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered ZooPark, a sophisticated cyberespionage campaign, which for several years has been targeting users of Android devices based in several Middle Eastern countries. Using legitimate websites as sources of infection, the campaign appears to be a nation-state backed operation aimed at political organizations, activists and otherRead More…
According to the latest Comodo Cybersecurity Threat Research Labs’ “Global Malware Report Q1 2018.” revealed that the first quarter for 2018 (for Jan-March 2018) threat analysis shows a very different picture from 2017, as cryptominers surged to the top of detected malware incidents, displacing ransomware — which declined significantly in volumeRead More…
In 2017, Saudi Arabia’s education sector was most affected by malware, followed by government, and telecommunications. Other sectors also affected were healthcare, manufacturing, and oil & gas. Furthermore, of the 1.7 billion known ransomware threats globally in 2017, the Kingdom accounted for 0.55%.Read More…
Paul Ducklin, Senior Technologist, Sophos talks about the malware family that had infiltrated Google Play by presenting itself as a bunch of handy utilities. Sophos reported the offending apps to Google, and they’ve now been pulled from the Play Store, but not before some of them attracted more than 500,000 downloads.Read More…
The evolution of malware is being fueled largely by the proliferation of IoT. According to Gartner data, there were about 8 billion connected “things” in 2017. But that number is expected to nearly triple to more than 20 billion in just the next two years, which averages out to roughlyRead More…
Kaspersky Lab researchers announced that they have uncovered a sophisticated threat used for cyber-espionage in the Middle East and Africa from at least 2012 until February 2018. Slingshot is a malware that attacks and infects victims through compromised routers and can run in kernel mode, giving it complete control over victims’Read More…
SonicWall releases the report for its research and intelligence derived out from the 2018 Cyber Threat Report. The company recorded 9.32 billion malware attacks in 2017 and saw more than 12,500 new Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) reported for the year. “The cyber arms race affects every government, business, organizationRead More…
ESET has launched ESET Smart TV Security – an advanced technology protection solution against targeted malware attacks on connected TVs and other devices with the Android TV operational system.Read More…
