ESET Ireland is warning Irish computer users to watch out for an email that pretends to come from Vodafone, but carries the Nemucod trojan. ESET Ireland has come across another widely targeted malicious email. This one pretends to be a bill from Vodafone: Clicking on the “Click here to view your bill” link downloads a … More Fake Vodafone bill spreads trojan malware
ESET Ireland warns that the nasty Nemucod malware is back as the malicious payload of a fake BT bill. At ESET Ireland we’ve been informing the public about Nemucod for a while. About a year ago it was one of the prevalent malware infections in Ireland with a 50,42% detection rate, while the global average … More Fake BT bill carries ransomware-delivering trojan
Nemucod, previously one of the worst infecting malware types in Ireland is causing mayhem again. Just last week ESET reported on Nemucod shifting away from ransomware and downloading the ad-clicking malware Kovter instead. Now, it seems that the operators of the notorious downloader went a step further and are serving their victims the whole package … More Nemucod serves nasty package: Combining ransomware and ad-clickers
ESET researchers noticed a huge outbreak of a new Spy.Banker variant, detected as Spy.Banker.ADEA. Nemucod has previously been one of the most detected malwares in Ireland. On the morning of Friday August 12th, at around 12pm CET this new variant was spotted in Brazil. Similar to previous ones used by other banking trojans in South America, … More Nemucod now spreading banking trojans
Nemucod, the Trojan that affected Ireland worst in 2016 is back with a new campaign. Instead of serving its victims ransomware, it delivers an ad-clicking backdoor Trojan detected by ESET as Win32/Kovter. As a backdoor, this trojan allows the attacker to control the machine remotely without the victim’s consent or knowledge. The currently used variant … More Nemucod is back and serving an ad-clicking backdoor instead of ransomware
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