ESET researchers explored the Mekotio, a Latin American banking trojan targeting Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries: mainly Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Spain, Peru and Portugal. Mekotio boasts several typical backdoor activities, including taking screenshots,Read More…
In November 2019, Kaspersky technologies revealed new malware with a focus on diplomatic bodies in Europe, with the initial dropper spread as a spoofed visa application. Further analysis has indicated that this spyware uses the same code base as the infamous COMPFun.Read More…
As part of an ongoing series on Latin American banking trojans, ESET researchers take an in-depth look at Grandoreiro. Distributed almost exclusively through email spam, it has lately started to utilize fake websites capitalizing on the global coronavirus pandemic.Read More…
Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) experts have uncovered a targeted campaign to distribute Milum—a malicious Trojan that gains remote control of devices in various organizations, including those representing the industrial sector.Read More…
A VPN software named ”Pirate Chick” is being installed by Adware bundles, which connects to a remote server to download and install malicious payloads such the AZORult password-stealing Trojan. Since adware bundles need to look as legitimate as possible, they require offers that they promote to have legitimate web sites with privacyRead More…
Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered a new variant of the SynAck ransomware Trojan using the Doppelgänging technique to bypass anti-virus security by hiding in legitimate processes. This is the first time the Doppelgänging techniqueRead More…
Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered a new malware which steals cryptocurrencies from a user’s wallet by replacing their address with its own in the device’s clipboard. Criminals are targeting popular cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Zcash, Dash, Monero and others. Indeed, criminals have already succeeded with bitcoin wallets, earning almostRead More…
