Collaborate Disseminate
In 2016, researchers from the University of Illinois left 297 unlabelled USB flash drives around the university campus to see what would happen. 98% of the dropped drives were picked up by staff and students, and at least half were plugged into a computer in order to view the content. For a hacker trying to infect a computer network, those are pretty irresistible odds. Continue reading USB threats from malware to miners
Rocke Miner is a hacking weapon that can infect multiple hosts at once, our in-depth removal article shows how victims can remove active infections. Depending on its exact configuration it can perform various system changes and even deliver other infec… Continue reading Rocke Miner Removal — Identify and Delete Active Infections
Every day we intercept numerous file-download commands sent to bots of various types and families. Here we present the results of our botnet activity analysis for H2 2017 and H1 2018. Continue reading What are botnets downloading?
In Q2 2018, attempted infections by malware designed to steal money via online access to bank accounts were logged on the computers of 215,762 users, ransomware attacks were registered on the computers of 158,921 unique users. Continue reading IT threat evolution Q2 2018. Statistics
The Coinhive Miner virus has infected hundreds of thousands MikroTik routers. The malware has now reportedly installed a JavaScript miner to over 170,000 devices and this recent outbreak is believed to be getting bigger and bigger. The first hint of…… Continue reading CoinHive Miner Virus Outbreak Has Infected 170,000 Routers
Recently, an interesting miner implementation appeared on Kaspersky Lab’s radar. The malware, which we dubbed PowerGhost, is capable of stealthily establishing itself in a system and spreading across large corporate networks infecting both workstations and servers. Continue reading A mining multitool
The Rakhni Trojan is now giving bad actors the ability to infect victims either with a ransomware cryptor or a miner. Continue reading Old Malware Gives Criminals Tricky New Choice: Ransomware or Mining
Way back in 2013 our malware analysts spotted the first malicious samples related to the Trojan-Ransom.Win32.Rakhni family. That was the starting point for this long-lived Trojan family, which is still functioning to this day. Now the criminals have decided to add a new feature to their creation – a mining capability. Continue reading To crypt, or to mine – that is the question
This article has been created to explain what is the app_loader.exe file and what is the RevServicesX BitCoin miner Trojan plus show you how you can remove this threat from your computer completely. A new BitCoin miner malware, going by…Read more
The… Continue reading RevServicesX (app_loader.exe) BitCoin Miner Virus – How to Remove It
This report will examine what is hopefully ransomware’s last breath, in detail, along with the rise of mining. The report covers the period April 2017 to March 2018, and compares it with April 2016 – March 2017. Continue reading Ransomware and malicious crypto miners in 2016-2018