Slashdot Items Tagged "malware"

Date / Time Story
Thursday February 29, 2024 @06:49PM Calendar Meeting Links Used To Spread Mac Malware
Wednesday February 28, 2024 @11:45PM GitHub Besieged By Millions of Malicious Repositories In Ongoing Attack
Friday February 16, 2024 @10:09PM Zeus, IcedID Malware Kingpin Faces 40 Years In Prison
Friday February 16, 2024 @05:42PM New 'Gold Pickaxe' Android, iOS Malware Steals Your Face For Fraud
Tuesday February 06, 2024 @06:19PM 3 Million Malware-Infected Smart Toothbrushes Used In Swiss DDoS Attacks [UPDATE]
Tuesday December 12, 2023 @12:46AM Lazarus Cyber Group Deploys DLang Malware Strains
Wednesday October 18, 2023 @05:48PM Android Will Now Scan Sideloaded Apps For Malware At Install Time
Thursday September 28, 2023 @05:09PM Bing Chat Responses Infiltrated By Ads Pushing Malware
Wednesday September 13, 2023 @07:31PM Password-Stealing Linux Malware Served For 3 Years and No One Noticed
Thursday August 31, 2023 @06:07PM Russia Targets Ukraine With New Android Backdoor, Intel Agencies Say
Monday August 21, 2023 @05:54PM Google Chrome To Warn When Installed Extensions Are Malware
Wednesday June 14, 2023 @08:53PM JPL Creates World's Largest PDF Archive to Aid Malware Research
Wednesday May 31, 2023 @06:58PM New Report Says American Government Agencies Are Using Malware Similar To Banned Pegasus Spyware
Friday May 26, 2023 @05:12PM Inner Workings Revealed For 'Predator,' the Android Malware That Exploited 5 0-Days
Thursday May 25, 2023 @07:18PM Unearthed: CosmicEnergy, Malware For Causing Kremlin-Style Power Disruptions
Wednesday May 17, 2023 @04:04PM Malware Turns Home Routers Into Proxies For Chinese State-Sponsored Hackers
Monday May 15, 2023 @11:31PM Microsoft Is Scanning the Inside of Password-Protected Zip Files For Malware
Friday May 12, 2023 @04:51PM Millions of Mobile Phones Come Pre-Infected With Malware, Say Researchers
Thursday April 27, 2023 @08:28PM Google Gets Court Order To Take Down CryptBot That Infected Over 670,000 Computers
Tuesday April 04, 2023 @04:51PM IRS-Authorized eFile.com Tax Return Software Caught Serving JS Malware
Wednesday March 22, 2023 @10:39PM Google Suspends Chinese E-Commerce App Pinduoduo Over Malware Used To Gain Competitive Advantage
Tuesday January 24, 2023 @06:13PM ChatGPT Is Enabling Script Kiddies To Write Functional Malware
Tuesday January 24, 2023 @06:05PM Android 14 Set To Block Certain Outdated Apps From Being Installed
Friday January 13, 2023 @06:50PM Android TV Box On Amazon Came Pre-Installed With Malware
Wednesday January 11, 2023 @02:29AM AI-written malware, now sold on hacking forums
Tuesday December 27, 2022 @01:13PM Glary Malware Hunter Pro 1.160.0.7 License Code & Crack Free
Friday December 09, 2022 @08:21AM What are Malvertising and Types of Malware Attacks?
Friday December 02, 2022 @08:44PM New CryWiper Data Wiper Targets Russian Courts, Mayor's Offices
Thursday November 17, 2022 @10:45PM Nearly 50% of macOS Malware from One App
Thursday November 17, 2022 @07:13PM Nearly 50% of macOS Malware Comes From One App
Thursday November 03, 2022 @01:37PM Google Ad for Graphics Program GIMP served Malware Site
Wednesday November 02, 2022 @03:44PM Google Ad For GIMP.org Served Info-Stealing Malware Via Lookalike
Tuesday July 26, 2022 @05:17PM A Newly Discovered Malware Hijacks Facebook Business Accounts
Tuesday July 26, 2022 @12:30PM Source Code For Rust-Based Info-Stealer Released On Hacker Forums
Tuesday July 19, 2022 @04:38PM Russia Released a Ukrainian App For Hacking Russia That Was Actually Malware
Monday May 16, 2022 @05:13PM Researchers Devise iPhone Malware That Runs Even When Device Is Turned Off
Monday May 09, 2022 @05:55PM Hackers Are Now Hiding Malware In Windows Event Logs
Tuesday May 03, 2022 @04:35PM Botnet That Hid For 18 Months
Thursday April 07, 2022 @04:44PM Chinese Hackers Abuse VLC Media Player To Launch Malware Loader
Wednesday March 09, 2022 @05:28PM Stolen Nvidia Certificates Used To Hide Malware in Driver Downloads
Thursday March 03, 2022 @07:38PM Malware Campaign Impersonates VC Firm Looking To Buy Sites
Thursday February 24, 2022 @03:28PM Utility Promising To Restore Mining Performance on Nvidia GPUs Actually Malware
Friday February 11, 2022 @09:14PM Beware Fake Windows 11 Upgrade Installers Bringing RedLine Malware
Friday February 11, 2022 @04:52PM Hundreds of E-Commerce Sites Booby-Trapped With Payment Card-Skimming Malware
Thursday January 27, 2022 @06:54PM Android Malware BRATA Wipes Your Device After Stealing Data
Monday January 17, 2022 @06:39PM Linux Malware Sees 35% Growth During 2021
Wednesday January 12, 2022 @06:14PM Raspberry Pi Can Detect Malware By Scanning For Electromagnetic Waves
Monday November 15, 2021 @09:13PM Emotet Botnet Returns After Law Enforcement Mass-Uninstall Operation
Wednesday October 13, 2021 @06:19PM Apple Argues Against Allowing App Sideloading By Pointing Out Android's Malware Figures
Wednesday September 29, 2021 @07:34PM New GriftHorse Malware Infects More Than 10 Million Android Phones
Friday August 27, 2021 @03:53PM Parents of Teens Who Stole $1 Million In Bitcoin Sued By Alleged Victim
Friday July 23, 2021 @10:47AM Malware Increasingly Targets Discord for Abuse
Thursday July 15, 2021 @12:36PM Mysterious Israeli Spyware Vendor's Windows Zero-Days Caught in the Wild
Friday June 04, 2021 @04:17PM FreakOut Malware Worms Its Way Into Vulnerable VMware Services
Monday May 24, 2021 @03:21PM Malware Caught Using a macOS Zero-Day To Secretly Take Screenshots
Thursday May 20, 2021 @10:42AM Microsoft Warns of Malware Campaign Spreading a RAT Masquerading as Ransomware
Thursday April 29, 2021 @05:15PM New Malware Found Lurking In 64-Bit Linux Installs
Tuesday March 02, 2021 @11:20PM Hackers Exploit Websites To Give Them Excellent SEO Before Deploying Malware
Monday March 01, 2021 @11:45AM Go Malware is Now Common, Having Been Adopted by Both APTs and E-crime Groups
Monday February 08, 2021 @09:21PM Android Barcode Scanner With 10 Million+ Downloads Infects Users
Thursday February 04, 2021 @06:01PM Google Boots 'The Great Suspender' Off the Chrome Web Store For Being Malware
Tuesday February 02, 2021 @07:17PM Hacker Group Inserted Malware In NoxPlayer Android Emulator
Thursday January 28, 2021 @11:34AM Authorities Plan To Mass-Uninstall Emotet From Infected Hosts on March 25
Wednesday January 27, 2021 @05:13PM Police Dismantle World's 'Most Dangerous' Criminal Hacking Network
Friday January 15, 2021 @06:30PM MacOS Malware Used Run-Only AppleScripts To Avoid Detection For Five Years
Tuesday January 12, 2021 @02:57PM ASUS Releases Fix For ShadowHammer Malware Attack
Monday January 11, 2021 @07:04PM SolarWinds Malware Has 'Curious' Ties To Russian-Speaking Hackers
Friday January 08, 2021 @05:32PM A Crypto-Mining Botnet Is Now Stealing Docker and AWS Credentials
Wednesday January 06, 2021 @12:10AM Hackers Target Cryptocurrency Users With New ElectroRAT Malware
Tuesday December 29, 2020 @04:21PM Ask Slashdot: How Can I Protect My Android Devices From Hackers?
Monday December 28, 2020 @07:53PM Internet Explorer 0-day Attacks On US Nuke Workers Hit 9 Other Sites
Monday September 28, 2020 @07:06PM Google Removes 17 Android Apps Caught Engaging In WAP Billing Fraud
Tuesday July 14, 2020 @12:46PM Israeli Court Rules NSO Group Can Continue Exporting Spyware
Thursday July 09, 2020 @05:02PM More Pre-Installed Malware Has Been Found In Budget US Smartphones
Friday July 03, 2020 @02:46PM New Mac Ransomware Is Even More Sinister Than It Appears
Wednesday May 27, 2020 @04:50PM Turla Hacker Group Steals Antivirus Logs To See If Its Malware Was Detected
Thursday May 21, 2020 @04:51PM Hackers Infect Multiple Game Developers With Advanced Malware
Monday May 11, 2020 @09:54AM Microsoft and Intel Project Converts Malware Into Images Before Analyzing It
Tuesday May 05, 2020 @11:28AM How Microsoft Fought the 'ILOVEYOU' Virus 20 Years Ago
Wednesday April 22, 2020 @06:25PM Team Fortress 2 Source Code Leak Raises Security Fears
Thursday April 16, 2020 @04:53PM The Secret Behind 'Unkillable' Android Backdoor Called xHelper Has Been Revealed
Wednesday April 15, 2020 @02:24AM Is Microsoft sabotaging Windows 10?
Tuesday March 10, 2020 @02:13PM Microsoft Orchestrates Coordinated Takedown of Necurs Botnet
Monday March 09, 2020 @07:15PM Another Windows Update Bytes the Dust
Tuesday February 25, 2020 @10:13PM Internal Docs Show Why the US Military Publishes North Korean and Russian Malware
Thursday February 13, 2020 @01:45PM An Old Android Virus is Reinstalling Itself Even After Factory Resets
Wednesday February 12, 2020 @09:23PM Apple's Mac Computers Now Outpace Windows In Malware
Tuesday February 11, 2020 @06:52PM One of the Most Destructive Botnets Can Now Spread To Nearby Wi-Fi Networks
Monday February 10, 2020 @10:20AM The Windows 10 Start Menu Now Harasses Firefox Users
Friday December 20, 2019 @05:59PM Wawa Announces Data Breach Potentially Affecting More Than 850 Stores
Wednesday December 04, 2019 @06:43PM New Iranian Wiper Discovered In Attacks On Middle Eastern Companies
Saturday November 23, 2019 @01:59AM New Linux/Windows Malware Allows Arbitrary Execution of Shell Commands
Tuesday October 29, 2019 @07:16PM Indian Nuke Plant's Network Reportedly Hit By Malware Tied To North Korea
Tuesday October 29, 2019 @05:21PM New 'Unremovable' XHelper Malware Has Infected 45,000 Android Devices
Monday September 23, 2019 @06:35PM Busy North Korean Hackers Have New Malware To Target ATMs
Wednesday August 28, 2019 @06:44PM Cops Hijack Botnet, Remotely Wipe Malware From 850,000 Computers
Tuesday August 27, 2019 @04:31PM Trojan Dropper Malware Found In CamScanner Android App With 100+ Million Downloads
Monday August 26, 2019 @04:49PM US Officials Fear Ransomware Attack Against 2020 Election
Thursday July 25, 2019 @11:30AM Ransomware Incident Leaves Some Johannesburg Residents Without Electricity
Friday July 19, 2019 @10:50AM Researchers Easily Trick Security Firm Cylance's AI-Based Antivirus Into Thinking Programs Like WannaCry and Other Malware Are Benign
Thursday July 11, 2019 @04:55PM Malicious Apps Infect 25 Million Android Devices With 'Agent Smith' Malware
Thursday July 11, 2019 @01:39PM The Most Clever 'Zip Bomb' Ever Made Explodes a 46MB File To 4.5 Petabytes
Thursday July 11, 2019 @12:23AM Apple Pushes a Silent Mac Update To Remove Hidden Zoom Web Server
Monday July 08, 2019 @03:50PM Microsoft Warns About Astaroth Malware Campaign
Monday July 01, 2019 @05:43PM Facebook Abused To Spread Remote Access Trojans Since 2015
Saturday June 29, 2019 @02:51AM New Mac Malware Abuses Recently Disclosed Gatekeeper Zero-Day
Tuesday June 25, 2019 @04:18PM New Silex Malware is Bricking IoT Devices, Has Scary Plans
Thursday June 20, 2019 @10:00AM Florida City Pays $600,000 To Ransomware Gang To Have Its Data Back
Monday June 17, 2019 @10:49AM Samsung Recommends Scanning QLED TVs For Viruses
Friday June 07, 2019 @06:02PM Malware Spotted Injecting Bing Results Into Google Searches
Friday May 31, 2019 @03:34AM Advanced Linux Backdoor Found In the Wild Escaped AV Detection
Tuesday May 28, 2019 @03:47AM In Baltimore and Beyond, a Stolen NSA Tool Wreaks Havoc
Thursday May 16, 2019 @04:29PM Hackers Abuse ASUS Cloud Service To Install Backdoor On Users' PCs
Thursday May 02, 2019 @05:31PM Dell Laptops and PCs Vulnerable To Remote Hijacks
Thursday April 18, 2019 @11:51PM Source Code of Iranian Cyber-Espionage Tools Leaked on Telegram
Tuesday April 16, 2019 @10:46AM Scranos Rootkit Expands Operations From China To the Rest of the World
Wednesday April 10, 2019 @04:26PM Mysterious Safety-Tampering Malware Infects Second Critical Infrastructure Site
Tuesday April 09, 2019 @06:22PM New Variants of Mirai Botnet Detected, Targeting More IoT Devices
Monday March 25, 2019 @10:04AM Hackers Hijacked ASUS Software Updates To Install Backdoors on Thousands of Computers
Monday March 18, 2019 @04:58PM New Mirai Malware Variant Targets Signage TVs and Presentation Systems
Friday March 15, 2019 @04:42PM Google Play Apps With 150 Million Installs Contain Aggressive Adware
Wednesday March 13, 2019 @05:03PM Two-Thirds of Android Antivirus Apps Are Total BS
Tuesday March 05, 2019 @09:23AM Researchers Uncover Ring of GitHub Accounts Promoting 300+ Backdoored Apps
Friday March 01, 2019 @07:01PM Qbot Malware Resurfaces In New Attack Against Businesses
Thursday February 28, 2019 @05:48PM Elasticsearch Clusters Face Attacks From Multiple Hacker Groups
Wednesday February 20, 2019 @06:28AM Android Triout Spyware Has Been Unwittingly Downloaded By Many Users
Wednesday February 13, 2019 @06:14PM Shlayer Malware Disables macOS Gatekeeper To Run Unsigned Payloads
Thursday January 10, 2019 @05:17PM Malware Found Preinstalled On Some Alcatel Smartphones
Tuesday January 01, 2019 @05:48PM First-Ever UEFI Rootkit Tied To Sednit APT
Sunday December 30, 2018 @09:38AM Computer Virus Hits Newspapers Coast-to-Coast, Affects Printing
Friday December 21, 2018 @06:44PM Sneaky Mac Malware Went Undetected By AV Providers For Four Month
Sunday December 16, 2018 @04:28AM Data-Wiping Malware Destroys Data At Italian and UAE Oil and Gas Companies
Thursday December 13, 2018 @03:15PM Data-Wiping Malware Shamoon Destroys Files At Italian Oil and Gas Company; Other Energy Companies Operating in the Middle East Warned of Cyber Attacks
Wednesday December 12, 2018 @05:53PM Ships Infected With Ransomware, USB Malware, Worms
Sunday December 09, 2018 @10:20PM Malicious Sites Abuse 11-Year-Old Firefox Bug That Mozilla Failed To Fix
Thursday November 29, 2018 @01:24PM I've Got a Bridge To Sell You. Why AutoCAD Malware Keeps Chugging On
Tuesday November 13, 2018 @01:08AM A 100,000-Router Botnet Is Feeding On a 5-Year-Old UPnP Bug In Broadcom Chips
Friday November 09, 2018 @10:05PM US Military Publicly Dumps Russian Government Malware Online
Thursday November 01, 2018 @07:39PM Iran Allegedly Hit By Computer Virus More Violent Than Stuxnet
Monday October 29, 2018 @10:18PM Civil Servant Watching Porn At Work Blamed For Government Malware Outbreak
Monday October 29, 2018 @05:36AM Microsoft Says It Has Resolved an Issue With Bing Which Was Causing It To Push Malware When Users Searched for Chrome
Tuesday October 23, 2018 @06:33PM Russia Is Behind Cyberattack On Saudi Petrochemical Plant, Researchers Say
Thursday August 23, 2018 @11:42PM North Korean Hackers Hit Cryptocurrency Exchange With macOS Malware
Monday August 06, 2018 @03:23PM Cramming Software With Thousands of Fake Bugs Could Make It More Secure, Researchers Say
Saturday August 04, 2018 @08:51PM Chip Giant TSMC Struggles With Virus Infections at its Factories
Monday July 16, 2018 @09:09PM Hacking Campaign Targets iPhone Users With Data-Stealing, Location-Tracking Malware
Tuesday July 10, 2018 @05:45PM Malware Found in Arch Linux AUR Package Repository
Tuesday July 03, 2018 @04:44PM Malware Authors Seem Intent on Weaponizing Windows SettingContent-ms Files
Friday June 29, 2018 @02:12AM All-Radio 4.27 Portable Can't Be Removed? Then Your PC Is Severely Infected
Sunday June 17, 2018 @01:02AM US Government Finds New Malware From North Korea
Thursday June 07, 2018 @08:03AM US Piles New Charges on Marcus Hutchins (aka MalwareTech)
Wednesday June 06, 2018 @12:48AM Flight-Sim Maker Threatens Legal Action Over Reddit Posts Discussing DRM
Friday May 25, 2018 @06:17PM FBI Tells Router Users To Reboot Now To Kill Malware Infecting 500,000 Devices
Friday May 18, 2018 @07:32PM RedDawn Android Malware Is Harvesting Personal Data of North Korean Defectors
Tuesday May 15, 2018 @11:07AM Canonical Addresses Ubuntu Linux Snap Store's 'Security Failure'
Sunday May 13, 2018 @03:59PM Card Breach Announced at Chili's Restaurant Chain
Saturday May 12, 2018 @05:40PM Malware Found In the Ubuntu Snap Store
Saturday May 05, 2018 @05:07PM Chinese Government Is Behind a Decade of Hacks On Software Companies, Says Report
Sunday April 22, 2018 @02:10PM 'Drupalgeddon2' Touches Off Arms Race To Mass-Exploit Powerful Web Servers
Thursday April 05, 2018 @04:45PM Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole In Windows Defender
Thursday April 05, 2018 @01:28PM Malware Attack on Vendor To Blame for Delta and Sears Data Breach Affecting 'Hundreds of Thousands' of Customers
Monday March 12, 2018 @04:34PM 'Slingshot' Malware That Hid For Six Years Spread Through Routers
Tuesday February 27, 2018 @09:28AM Ad Network Uses Malware Technique to Bypass Ad Blockers
Monday February 26, 2018 @01:50AM Hackers Are Selling Legitimate Code-signing Certificates To Evade Malware Detection
Friday February 16, 2018 @03:14PM A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company's Servers -- Again
Thursday February 15, 2018 @02:04PM Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps On My PC Without Asking
Tuesday February 13, 2018 @08:58PM Kaspersky Says Telegram Flaw Used For Cryptocurrency Mining
Thursday February 08, 2018 @01:36AM Attackers Drain CPU Power From Water Utility Plant In Cryptojacking Attack
Tuesday January 30, 2018 @05:47PM Google Play Removed 700,000 Bad Apps In 2017, 70 Percent More Than In 2016
Friday January 26, 2018 @07:58PM Crooks Created 28 Fake Ad Agencies To Disguise Massive Malvertising Campaign
Tuesday January 16, 2018 @04:25PM Researchers Uncover Android Malware With Never-Before-Seen Spying Capabilities
Friday January 12, 2018 @04:12PM Google Pulls 60 Apps From Play Store After Malware Exposes Kids To Porn
Wednesday January 10, 2018 @09:49AM Taiwanese Police Give Cyber-security Quiz Winners Infected Devices
Wednesday December 27, 2017 @01:40AM Beware: 'Digmine' Cryptocurrency Bot Is Spreading Via Facebook Messenger
Tuesday December 19, 2017 @04:59PM 'Loapi' Cryptocurrency Mining Malware Is Causing Phone Batteries To Bulge
Monday December 18, 2017 @09:03AM Microsoft Disables Word DDE Feature to Prevent Further Malware Attacks
Thursday December 14, 2017 @05:12PM Attackers Deploy 'Triton' Malware Against Industrial Safety Equipment
Wednesday December 13, 2017 @08:06PM Avast Launches Open-Source Decompiler For Machine Code
Monday November 20, 2017 @05:01PM Why Hackers Reuse Malware
Thursday November 02, 2017 @08:17PM Malware Developer Who Used Spam Botnet To Pay For College Gets No Prison Time
Saturday October 28, 2017 @06:03AM NotPetya Outbreak Left Merck Short of HPV Vaccine Gardasil
Tuesday October 24, 2017 @04:56PM Legal Hack Back Lets You Go After Attackers In Your Network
Thursday October 19, 2017 @02:37PM Canada's 'Super Secret Spy Agency' Is Releasing a Malware-Fighting Tool To the Public
Friday October 13, 2017 @04:54PM IRS Suspends $7 Million Contract With Equifax After Malware Discovered
Thursday October 12, 2017 @12:44PM Down the Rabbit Hole With a BLU Phone Infection
Tuesday October 10, 2017 @05:54PM Warning: Microsoft is using Cortana to read your private Skype conversations
Monday September 18, 2017 @01:54PM Avast's CCleaner Free Windows Application Infected With Malware
Monday September 18, 2017 @06:08AM CCleaner Compromised to Distribute Malware for Almost a Month
Tuesday September 12, 2017 @06:17PM At Least 1.65 Million Computers Are Mining Cryptocurrency For Hackers So Far This Year
Thursday September 07, 2017 @06:25PM Bug In Windows Kernel Could Prevent Security Software From Identifying Malware
Monday July 31, 2017 @04:37PM BrickerBot Dev Claims Cyber-Attack That Affected Over 60,000 Indian Modems
Monday July 24, 2017 @01:19PM Mysterious Mac Malware Has Infected Hundreds of Victims For Years
Wednesday June 28, 2017 @07:27PM WikiLeaks Dump Reveals CIA Malware For Tracking Windows Devices Via WiFi Networks
Wednesday June 28, 2017 @06:00PM London Metropolitan Police's 18,000 Windows XP PCs Is a Disaster Waiting To Happen
Wednesday June 28, 2017 @12:55AM Petya Ransomware Outbreak Originated In Ukraine Via Tainted Accounting Software
Friday June 23, 2017 @12:07PM Vault 7: CIA Has Malware for Hacking Air-Gapped Networks via USB Thumb Drives
Thursday June 22, 2017 @12:16AM Microsoft Admits Disabling Anti-Virus Software For Windows 10 Users
Tuesday June 13, 2017 @04:30PM Apple Mac Computers Are Being Targeted By Ransomware, Spyware
Monday June 12, 2017 @03:40PM Researchers Reveal Malware Designed To 'Power Down' Electric Grid
Wednesday June 07, 2017 @04:07PM Russian Malware Communicates Using Britney Spears's Instagram Account