New Malware Miner Sneakily Hides When Task Manager Is Open Meet “Norman” – a new variant of monero-mining malware that employs crafty tricks to avoid being spotted. After injection, it overwrites its entry in explorer.exe to conceal evidence of its presence. It also stops operating the miner when the PC’s user opens Task Manager (see image below). Re-injecting itself once Task Manager is not running. August 27, 2019 By Spydamonkey Digital Case Studies, General, Privacy, Security 112 | 1 MIN READ Read More »
Cloud Atlas Hackers Add Polymorphic Malware to Their Toolkit The hacking group also known as Inception [1, 2] was initially identified in 2014 by Kaspersky's Global Research and Analysis Team researchers, and it has a history of targeting government agencies and entities from a wide range of industries via spear-phishing campaigns. August 21, 2019 By Spydamonkey Digital Privacy, Security, Social Media, Technology 57 | 2 MIN READ Read More »
'Agent Smith' Android Malware Infected 25M Devices The malware disguised itself as the Google Updater and modified apps such as WhatsApp, Opera Mini, and Flipkart with a malicious ads module. A new strain of Android malware has infected 25 million devices and modified legitimate apps with a malicious ads module, according to a report by the security company Check Point. August 12, 2019 By Spydamonkey Digital Mobile Security, Privacy, Social Media, Technology 41 | 2 MIN READ Read More »
Houdini Worm targeting commercial banking customers A new variant of Houdini Worm has been identified targeting commercial banking customers with campaigns containing malicious files. The variant takes five days to actively distribute phishing to victims with the aim of obtaining banking credentials which can be exploited by attackers to make fraudulent purchases. The email attachment contains an MHT file that can be utilised by threat operators in the same way as HTML files. August 1, 2019 By Spydamonkey Digital Privacy, Security, Technology 33 | 2 MIN READ Read More »
The Next Big Privacy Hurdle? Teaching AI to Forget WHEN THE EUROPEAN Union enacted the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) a year ago, one of the most revolutionary aspects of the regulation was the “right to be forgotten”—an often-hyped and debated right, sometimes perceived as empowering individuals to request the erasure of their information on the internet, most commonly from search engines or social networks. July 30, 2019 By Spydamonkey Digital Privacy, Technology 45 | 5 MIN READ Read More »