Cisco has released an advisory that a half million consumer and small business routers and growing have been infected with malware dubbed VPNFilter. The malware was detected infecting routers from: Linksys MikroTik Netgear TP-Link and QNap storage devices The researchers have not figured out a test that a consumer or small business can use to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Dell SecureWorks, the counter threat service that Dell bought in 2011, is reporting on a new outbreak of the malware family STEGOLOADER, which has a different M.O., making it hard to detect. All that persists on the machine in a small loader that downloads the core module. This can be changed easily and might even […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]After my last post, a new article came out about the Backoff malware. The article, quoting the US Department of Homeland Security, said that over a thousand small, medium and enterprise U.S. businesses have been compromised by the Backoff malware package. Backoff is fairly new – first seen last year – and scrapes the memory […]
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