Around February this year, we came across a piece of malware that had previously gone unnoticed. Buried in the malware zoo, the threat seems to have been operational since at least 2015, undocumented by the research community. Our interest was...
Author - Bogdan BOTEZATU
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Annabelle Ransomware is a family of file encrypting malware inspired from the horror movie franchise Annabelle. In addition to its file encryption...
Ransomware has become one of the most profitable cybercrime verticals in recent years. Complex infection mechanisms and highly profitable affiliation schemes...
BEFORE YOU READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE: Please note that there is a second version of GandCrab in the wild now. If your encrypted files have the .CRAB...
More than 30 years after the end of the Cold War, digital infrastructures worldwide have become strategic national fronts with the same importance as the...
Bitdefender researchers have uncovered an emerging botnet that uses advanced communication techniques to exploit victims and build its infrastructure. The bot...
Malware authors are surely known for their ability to fly under the radar. But every once in a while, details about their operations surface on the web. This...
The increased popularity of emerging crypto-currencies such as Monero and Ethereum has put miners once again in the bad guys’ crosshairs. Illicit digital...
A new strain of ransomware that has emerged today has hit a number of high profile institutions in Russia and Ukraine, such as the Kiev metro system, the...