Tag: Malware


  • A post by Ian Beer of Google Project Zero released late yesterday evening sent the security community reeling. According to Beer, a small set of websites had been hacked in February and were being used to attack iPhones, infecting them with malware. These sites, which see thousands of visitors per week, were used to distribute […]

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  • We previously posted a blog about the Ursnif family of malware using language checks to determine the end user’s location as a means of bypassing sandbox-based endpoint protection during regionally targeted attacks. Since then, we have seen a couple more examples of malware using clever methods to indirectly determine the language of the running machine’s […]

  • No data nicked in weekend attack but systems and server pulled to contain infection Bio-analytical testing biz Eurofins Scientific today admitted it was the subject of a ransomware attack at the weekend.… The Register – Security

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