Archive for the ‘cybercrime/malcode’ category: Page 172
Jul 18, 2019
This data-stealing malware waits for you to click a mouse button three times before going into action
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: cybercrime/malcode
Cyber-espionage campaign is thought to be the work of Ke3chang, an ATP hacking group which has been active for ten years.
Jul 15, 2019
Game-theory research better allocates military resources, fight cancer
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: biotech/medical, cybercrime/malcode, military, robotics/AI
U.S. Army game-theory research using artificial intelligence may help treat cancer and other diseases, improve cybersecurity, deploy Soldiers and assets more efficiently and even win a poker game.
New research, published in Science, and conducted by scientists at Carnegie Mellon University, developed an artificial intelligence program called Pluribus that defeated leading professionals in six-player no-limit Texas hold’em poker.
The Army and National Science Foundation funded the mathematics modeling portion of the research, while funding from Facebook was specific to the poker.
Jul 13, 2019
Artificial intelligence conquers world’s most complex poker game
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: cybercrime/malcode, robotics/AI
Jul 12, 2019
TrickBot malware may have hacked 250 million email accounts
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: cybercrime/malcode
TrickBot malware may have stolen as many as 250 million email accounts, including some belonging to governments in the US, UK and Canada. The malware isn’t new. In fact, it’s been circulating since 2016. But according to cybersecurity firm Deep Instinct, it has started harvesting email credentials and contacts. The researchers are calling this new approach TrickBooster, and they say it first hijacks accounts to send malicious spam emails and then deletes the sent messages from both the outbox and trash folders.
Jul 12, 2019
EU to run war games to prepare for Russian and Chinese cyber-attacks
Posted by Derick Lee in category: cybercrime/malcode
Last week the EU’s leaders committed at a summit in Brussels to “a coordinated response to hybrid and cyber-threats” and asked the European commission and member states to “work on measures to enhance the resilience and improve the security culture” of the bloc.
Ministers to be put in fictional scenarios after series of hacking incidents.
Jul 10, 2019
25 Million Android Devices Infected
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: cybercrime/malcode, robotics/AI
Malware researchers discovered a new malicious campaign for Android devices that replaces legitimate apps with tainted copies built to push advertisements or hijack valid ad events.
Around 25 million devices have already been infected with what researchers have dubbed “Agent Smith,” after users installed an app from an unofficial Android store.
Jul 10, 2019
Microsoft Confirms Windows ‘Great Duke Of Hell’ Malware Attack
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: cybercrime/malcode
Astaroth is, as demonologists will tell you, the Great Duke of Hell and part of the evil trinity. Microsoft, however, is warning that Astaroth malware is attacking Windows users with a fileless “invisible man” methodology. Here’s what you need to know.
Jul 3, 2019
Dozens of Facebook pages about current events in Libya were linked to malware
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: cybercrime/malcode
Attackers would use the pages to post malicious URLs, disguising the links as news or mobile applications. Facebook said it removed the pages — which collectively had hundreds of thousands of followers — after notification from researchers…
Jul 1, 2019
Malware Defense: Protecting Against Polymorphic Malware
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: cybercrime/malcode
So everything we just said about metamorphic and polymorphic malware also applies to metamorphic and polymorphic ransomware.
Metamorphic and Polymorphic Malware Families
With consistent functionalities regardless of code, malware is often grouped into families so security teams can look for similar functions and code segments in efforts to protect their organizations. Some of the most well-known malware families include: