Latest Avast Q3’21 Threat Report reveals elevated risk for ransomware and RAT attacks, rootkits and exploit kits return. Let us share with you more details about emerging threats...
Based on Jiří Vinopal's published analysis and found weaknesses in the AtomSilo and LockFile ransomware strains, we created free Avast decryptor for both of them. Read and download.
MyKings is a long-standing and relentless botnet which has been active from at least 2016. Our research has shown that, since 2019, the operators behind MyKings have amassed at least $24 million USD (and likely more) in the Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Dogecoin.
Follow us in our journey analyzing Mongolian certificate authority breach and certificate client backdoored with Cobalt Strike.
New malware strain we discovered could be the reason why your antivirus doesn’t work anymore. Especially if you have installed some popular software from not so legal distribution recently
Code obfuscation is one of the cornerstones of malware. The harder code is to analyze the longer attackers can fly below the radar and hide the full capabilities of their creations. Code obfuscation techniques are very old and take many many forms from source code modifications, opcode...
This is part one in a series of posts that focus on understanding Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6) code, and the tactics and techniques both malware authors and researchers use around it.
One specific malware family emphasizes how easy it can be to lose your cryptocurrency coins. It is called HackBoss - a simple yet very effective malware that has possibly stolen over $560,000 USD from the victims so far. And it’s mainly being spread via Telegram.
One of the goals of malware authors is to keep their creation undetected by antivirus software. One possible solution for this are crypters. A crypter encrypts a program, so it looks like meaningless data and it creates an envelope for this encrypted program also called a stub. This stub looks like...
Forum Advertisement MassLogger is an information stealer, first sold in hacking forums around April 2020. The malware author claims it to be the “most powerful logger and recovery tool” which costs $99 USD worth of Bitcoin for a lifetime license. MassLogger is highly configurable and gives its...