A framework notorious for delivering a banking Trojan has received a facelift to deploy a wider range of malware, including ransomware payloads. “The Gootkit malware family has been around more than half a decade – a mature Trojan with functionality centered around banking credential theft,” Sophos researchers Gabor Szappanos and Andrew Brandt said in a write-up published today. “In […]
Unknown attackers are trying to exploit a vulnerability in dnaLIMS, a Web based bioinformatics laboratory information management system, to implant a bind shell into the underlying web server. Researcher Ankit Anubhav first noticed the attacks on June 12 and they are apparently still going on. About dnaLIMS DnaLIMS is developed by Colorado-based dnaTools. It provides […]
If you downloaded “CCleaner” software from antivirus company Avast between August 15 and September 12, you have a problem. Cisco’s Talos threat research group discovered that company’s software download page was compromised to host a malicious version of CCleaner that contains malware.Computers that downloaded and ran that software became part of a botnet, a network […]