Malware analysis January 20, 2021 Pedro Tavares RansomExx: The malware that attacks Linux OS RansomExx is the new malware used by criminals to attack both Windows and Linux environments. With companies using a mixed environment of Windows and Linux...
Malware analysis January 13, 2021 Pedro Tavares RegretLocker ransomware: What it is, how it works and how to prevent it | Malware spotlight In October 2020, a new piece of data encryption malware made the headlines. RegretLocker is novel ransomware that can bypass the long encryption times required...
Malware analysis January 6, 2021 Pedro Tavares Lazarus’s VHD ransomware: What it is, how it works and how to prevent it | Malware spotlight Data encryption malware is one of the most popular malware families in recent years and targets mass volumes of users and companies around the world. In this...
Malware analysis December 30, 2020 Greg Belding Drovorub malware: What it is, how it works and how to prevent it | Malware spotlight Malware is a threat that has increased exponentially in the last few years, with many sophisticated threads impacting citizens, devices, organizations, nation-states...
Malware analysis December 16, 2020 Pedro Tavares BlindingCan malware: What it is, how it works and how to prevent it | Malware spotlight BlindingCan is a recent malware that has made headlines in the last few months. This malware is used by government-backed hackers from North Korea to perform...
Malware analysis December 15, 2020 Pedro Tavares Emotet returns in summer 2020 with new improvements Emotet is a self-propagating and modular Trojan first discovered in 2014 and a popular cyberthreat out in the world. It was initially developed as a banking...
Malware analysis December 9, 2020 Daniel Dimov Octopus Scanner malware: What it is, how it works and how to prevent it | Malware spotlight Octopus Scanner appeared somewhere in 2018. Although its creators are still unknown, the operation of Octopus Scanner has been extensively discussed in numerous...
Malware analysis December 2, 2020 Pedro Tavares WastedLocker malware: What it is, how it works and how to prevent it | Malware spotlight WastedLocker is the name of a data encryption malware, also called ransomware, which will be analyzed in this article. Systems infected with this piece of...
Malware analysis November 25, 2020 Pedro Tavares NetWire malware: What it is, how it works and how to prevent it | Malware spotlight NetWire is a remote access Trojan focused on password stealing and keylogging, as well as including remote control capabilities. This threat has been used...
Malware analysis November 11, 2020 Chris Sienko Nworm malware: What it is, how it works and how to prevent it | Malware spotlight In April 2020, the creators of the TrickBot malware released a module for TrickBot called Nworm. TrickBot is a banking Trojan that targets Windows machines....