Google withdrew nearly 60 applications from its digital Play Store, which together had more than one hundred million downloads, for sharing a library of malicious software capable of collecting data from infected computers, such as the list of installed apps or location history.
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New Rorschach ‘malware’ contains high level of customization and high speed in its…
Researchers have identified a 'malware' called Rorschach, which offers a high level of customization and stands out for being one of the fastest strains in terms of encryption speed.
The Incident Response Team of the cybersecurity company…
ChatGPT is already used in malicious campaigns
Researchers discovered that cybercriminals began using the ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool, developed by OpenAI, to recreate malware strains and execute malicious software attacks.
ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chat…
Google warns cybercrime rise as Christmas approaches
Purchases and payments over the Internet increase in December. And as Christmas approaches, cyberattacks are also increasing. In this sense, Google issued a warning to be aware of the possible arrival of malicious emails.
Australians have…
Cyberattacks with LNK files on the rise in business environments
HP has noted, in its latest global HP Wolf Security Threat Insights report on real-world cyberattacks, that the most common attacks are via files with shortcuts (LNK). In fact, they have become the most used method to threaten businesses…
Discord is used to share malware tools
A community of teenage users take advantage of the Discord platform's servers to build, trade, and spread malware, including ransomware and a mix of data thieves and crypto miners.
Discord hosts a community of young users, aged between 11…
Phishing takes advantage of the summer tourist wave
Summer arrived with phishing campaigns, which have shot at the cost of tourism with content related to vacation trips that flooded the entrance trays of their potential victims since last March.
Campaigns use summer as bait and take…
Cybersecurity experts predict an increase of ransomware attacks
During the first nine months of this year 495 million ransomware attacks have been registered, which represents an increase of 148 % worldwide, compared to 2020, as reported in its report by the company SonicWall.
According to the…
Cybercriminals take advantage of the success of “The Squid Game” to create malware
ESET's threat analysis specialist, Lukas Stefanko, has indicated that cybercriminals managed to place a malicious application on Google Play called the same as the Netflix series and with the same image. Although it has already been…
Attacks on devices with ransomware on the rise
There are various types of cyberattacks. In the last year, viruses have increased due to hacking on mobile phones. One of the most popular is known as ransomware, a modality that prevents users from accessing the information on their device…
More than 20 Spanish banks attacked by malware
Spain is the European country most affected by the new Brazilian banking Trojan Bizarro, a malware that has already attacked 70 different banks around the world, of which 22 are Spanish banks.
The cybersecurity company Kaspersky, which has…
Malware impersonates Google Chrome to collect bank data
The cybersecurity company Pradeo has detected a new malicious program that acts as a Google Chrome application in order to collect banking data.
The malware that has already affected more than 100,000 Android users is part of a cyberattack…