Android users were targeted by a banking malware with screen locking capabilities, masquerading as a flashlight app on Google Play. Google was notified and removed the application – however, 5,000 or so users had downloaded the app before it was removed from the...
Since it first appeared, ransomware’s profitable business – in short, compromising and encrypting data belonging to companies and users and requesting payment in exchange for the restoration of infected files –has grown rapidly. One of the threats that has had a...
“The USB Thief is, in many aspects different from the more common malware types that we’re used to seeing flooding the internet,” Mr. Gardoň notes. “This one uses only USB devices for propagation, and it does not leave any evidence on the compromised computer. Its...