A threat actor focusing on Android systems has expanded their malware-as-a-service (MaaS) business with file-encrypting capabilities for ransomware operations. Named Lucy Gang by researchers, the ...

Mozilla has announced that the new version 31.0 of Firefox, released earlier this week, will check individual file downloads against Google's Safe Browsing reputation service to determine if they are ...

Researchers from Mimecast have recently observed a campaign where threat actors are using a somewhat rarely seen but easy method to distribute malware using Microsoft Excel's standard file encryption ...

Third-party programs are widely used on Windows and other operating systems. But how can you tell if a program is safe to install or not? How can you be so sure that the program file you are going to ...

Security researchers at Bitdefender found four new malicious apps on the Play Store that infect Android devices with SharkBot banking malware. These apps don’t carry malicious payload upon ...

Security researchers have traced a recent spike in FormBook infections to a new file-hosting service that’s been billed as a place for hackers to host their malware. Deep Instinct analysts say in new ...

Variants of the SharkBot malware were found in several file manager Android apps on the Google Play Store, some of them with thousands of downloads. While the apps have now been taken down by Google, ...

A researcher at security vendor Trellix has uncovered a Linux malware attack that embeds malicious code directly into file names, a technique that bypasses most traditional security defences. The ...

New malware posing as a movie file from torrent website The Pirate Bay (TPB) can manipulate web pages and replace Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) addresses, computing magazine Bleeping Computer reported ...

Discord is introducing changes to its file hosting to enhance security and restrict the misuse of its platform. This move is intended to curb the use of Discord's content delivery network (CDN) for ...