Tag: malware

22 DEC

Sneaky cryptocurrency mining malware Loapi can literally melt your phone

Published time: 22 Dec, 2017 01:02 Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab has exposed a powerful malware that infiltrates smartphones to secretly mine cryptrocurrency and carry out DDoS attacks. Loapi, the malicious software, is so power-hungry that it can overheat your battery and fry your phone. The virus physically destroyed the Kaspersky Lab test phone just two […]

20 DEC

Currency-mining Android malware is so aggressive it can physically harm phones

Enlarge (credit: Kaspersky Lab) A newly discovered piece of Android malware carries out a litany of malicious activities, including showing an almost unending series of ads, participating in distributed denial-of-service attacks, sending text messages to any number, and silently subscribing to paid services. Its biggest offense: a surreptitious cryptocurrency miner that’s so aggressive it can […]

12 NOV

Malware scare forces five-year-old MMO to shut down chat

Tera, a Korean MMO that debuted in the US in 2012, has shut down its in-game chat system after some players discovered a potentially serious vulnerability. According to the players’ report (Google docs), Tera’s chat interface uses HTML, which people can exploit to blast players with external images and links, as well as to collect […]

04 NOV

Crunchyroll website hack tried to infect visitors with malware

Hacks that target major websites are nothing new, but Crunchyroll just suffered a particularly vicious attack. The anime streaming service was compromised for hours on November 4th after intruders planted a fake home page that pushed a malicious “CrunchyViewer” program to visitors. If Windows users were trusting enough to launch the file, it installed a […]

25 OCT

Worker who snuck NSA malware home had his PC backdoored, Kaspersky says

Enlarge (credit: Kaspersky Lab) An NSA worker who reportedly snuck classified materials out of the agency stored them on a home computer that was later infected by a malicious backdoor that allowed third-parties to remotely access the machine, officials with Moscow-based antivirus provider Kaspersky Lab said. The NSA worker—described in some published reports as a […]

22 SEP

CCleaner malware outbreak is much worse than it first appeared

The recent CCleaner malware outbreak is much worse than it initially appeared, according to newly unearthed evidence. That evidence shows that the CCleaner malware infected at least 20 computers from a carefully selected list of high-profile technology companies with a mysterious payload. (credit: Talos) Previously, researchers found no evidence that any of the computers infected […]