Game Booster is the name of a program that supposed to speed up computers for a smoother gaming experience. Attackers have created a fake site that impersonates the legitimate Smart Game Booster site but instead distributes a Trojan that steals your passwords, cryptocurrency wallets, browser history, and much more.Read More
MOST MOBILE CALLS around the world are made over the Global System for Mobile Communications standard; in the US, GSM underpins any call made over AT&T or T-Mobile networks. But at the DefCon security conference in Las Vegas on Saturday, researchers from BlackBerry are presenting an attack that can intercept GSM calls as they’re transmitted over the air and then decrypt them to listen back to what was said.Read More
Trojan-Dropper is Software that injects Trojans, viruses, worms and other malware into a computer. When run, it typically decompresses the malware components hidden within the dropper file and executes them, sometimes without saving them on disk to avoid detection. The dropper is Malwarebytes’ generic detection name for trojans that drop additional malware on an affected system.Read More
Masodas may be appear as new computer threat but in reality, this is just a remake of other ransomware from STOP family of malware. The name was derived from the extension that this threat is appending to all infected files and that is .masodas.Masodas is a high-risk ransomware-type infection designed to infiltrate computers and encrypt most of stored files. While doing so, Masodas appends filenames each filename with “.masodas” extension (thus its name).Read More
Magecart is a form of data skimming, which attacks using the client-side browser as the front-door for consumer interactions. “Skimming” is a method used by attackers to capture sensitive information from online payment forms, such as email addresses, passwords, and credit card numbers. For Magecart specifically, hackers implant malicious code into websites in order to steal credit card information as people enter credentials on the checkout page. Data skimming attacks like Magecart typically follow a well-established pattern.Read More
