Articles Tagged with ''malware''

Killware attacks, cyberattacks intended to cause physical damage and harm, is a grave concern for security professionals in the healthcare and critical infrastructure sectors. Here’s how to defend against it.

The Global Threat Report from Zix highlighted the significance of business email security, detailing the status of malware delivered via email in 2021.

Global biopharmaceutical company Merck has won a $1.4B legal dispute against its insurer for the NotPetya attacks. 

Attackers are exploiting Google Docs to conduct phishing and inject malware.

Enterprise security executives generally don’t plan for nation-state-level cyberattacks on their businesses. That may change going forward, when analyzing new trends in hacking and cybersecurity.

Heading into 2022 there are three key areas where security leaders need to be well-versed: innovations in eSkimming methods, intensifying pressure from ransomware campaigns on the payments ecosystem and the supply chain, and sophisticated enumeration attacks that impact and payments ecosystem.

The 2021 Threat Intelligence Report from Nokia detailed this year's security trends, focusing on a rise in malware attacks on mobile banking apps.

Lookout, Inc. released a report showing that mobile phishing exposure surged 161% within the energy industry between the second half of 2020 and the first half of 2021. 

Security researchers at the Lookout Threat Labs have discovered a new Android malware, dubbed AbstractEmu, with rooting capabilities distributed on Google Play and major third-party stores, including the Amazon Appstore and Samsung Galaxy Store.

Malware authors often take advantage of vulnerabilities in popular software. But, malware is also prone to bugs and coding errors, causing it to crash and serve as backdoors — any method by which authorized and unauthorized users can get around normal security measures and gain high-level user access — for white hat hackers.