IT Sec News updates – Malware Attacks

CISA

CISA analyzed backdoor malware variants obtained from an organization that had been compromised by threat actors exploiting the vulnerability.

Ars Technica

The malware, dubbed CherryBlos by researchers from security firm Trend Micro, has been embedded into at least four Android apps available outside of …

The Hacker News

Recent versions of the malware have been observed removing functionality related to online banking fraud to prioritize ransomware delivery. The …

Slashdot

Another player claimed to have analyzed the malware and wrote in the same forum thread that the malware appears to be a worm, based on a series of …

Bleeping Computer

Two new Android malware families named 'CherryBlos' and 'FakeTrade' were discovered on Google Play, aiming to steal cryptocurrency credentials and …

CircleID

That's actually the rationale behind malware crypting—the process of making malicious programs, apps, and files appear harmless to anti-malware …

Dark Reading

The malware, along with a sister strain dubbed “FakeTrade,” was found lurking in Google Play.

THE Journal

K–12 schools and other education organizations in the United States are experiencing a “massive spike” in malware, encrypted threats, …

SC Magazine

Malware deployed using remote code execution. Yaakov said the threat actor used that functionality to deploy a WAR file containing a malicious web …

Tom’s Guide

Hackers have added OCR capabilities to a new malware strain in order to extract passwords and other sensitive data from screenshots.