Welcome to this week’s security review, which includes the Locky threat, the nuisance of Robocalls, another celeb-related iCloud breach and a warning from the FBI that cars are vulnerable to cyberattacks. Trojan Downloaders on the rise: Don’t let Locky or TeslaCrypt ruin your day ESET’s Josep Albors and Raphael Labaca Castro revealed that weeks after … More The security review: What you need to know about Locky
Weeks after it started attacking and encrypting victims’ files, Locky is still targeting many users. In order to provide more information about this threat, we have put together some information to help protect you in a better way. Short summary Win32/Filecoder.Locky.A is a ransomware variant that encrypts files with over 100 file types such as images, videos, databases, … More Trojan Downloaders on the rise: Don’t let Locky or TeslaCrypt ruin your day
ESET finds that Nemucod, the top infecting malware of recent weeks has a 15,82% world detection rate, but a 50,42% detection rate in Ireland ESET Ireland warns users against an increased number of infected emails containing a malicious attachment, which downloads and installs ransomware onto an infected device. When opened, it encrypts victims‘ files on … More Ireland worst affected by Nemucod ransomware delivering trojan
Active users of mobile banking apps should be aware of a new Android banking trojan campaign targeting customers of large banks in Australia, New Zealand and Turkey. The banking malware, detected by ESET security products as Android/Spy.Agent.SI, can steal login credentials from 20 mobile banking apps.The list of target banks includes the largest banks in … More Android banking trojan masquerades as Flash Player and bypasses 2FA
Today, ESET released a virus database update that was incorrectly blocking access to some websites or their components. As soon as we learned of the problem, the update was retracted and, within approximately two hours’ time a new update fixing the issue was deployed. Following that deployment – and at this time- users should no … More ESET releases and quickly fixes a faulty update
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