Trojan stories

Agent Tesla originally surfaced in 2014. It is widely available on criminal marketplaces, and continues to evolve.More

Many significant cybersecurity events have occurred since the year 2000 — not every one of them ‘firsts’, but all of them correlating with a change in security behaviour or protection.More

Kaspersky detected more trojans, backdoors and worms than last year, representing an overall 5.2% increase in detected malicious files year-on-year.More

"We recommend that financial institutions watch these threats closely, while improving their authentication processes, boosting anti-fraud technology and threat intelligence data, and trying to understand and mitigate all risks of this new mobile RAT family.”More

The malware, primarily targeting victims in Czechia and Slovakia, prioritises subterfuge through deployment of multiple techniques to avoid detection, and leans heavily on the Tor network and BitTorrent protocol to achieve its goals.More

ESET researchers have discovered a trojanised Tor Browser that cybercriminals use to steal bitcoins from darknet market buyers.More

Financial malware, that is malware that targets finances, cryptocurrencies and web-money services, has increased by 7% from the same period last year, according to new research from Kaspersky.More

DanaBot is a Trojan written in the Delphi programming language that includes banking site web injections and stealer functions.More

The malicious Chrome extension asks for elevated permissions & steals credentials from sites such as Amazon, GitHub, Live.com, My Monero, plus others.More

Cybercriminals who use botnets to conduct their attacks are shifting away from single-purpose malware .More

Check Point’s latest Global Threat Index reveals that Trojan malware families enter Top 10 Most Wanted Ranking; Cryptomining remains top of the list.More

The attacks deliver the Trojan.Kampirs malware and appear to be carefully targeted, with significant planning behind the scenes.More

Barracuda Networks is tracking a potentially dangerous ‘URL file outbreak’ that distribute the Quant Loader Trojan.More

Cyber attacks and geopolitical events in Asia may go hand in hand, according to Comodo’s first annual Global Malware Report for 2017.More

"Its behavior is very similar to the versions detected in attacks associated with the Iron Tiger APT group. "More

MailGuard has already detected three different email scams targeting Australians this year.More

A new custom Remote Access Trojan (RAT) is making its way around various countries in Southeast Asia and may be going after Korean targets.More

Cyberthreats have changed significantly in 2017 - Bitdefender's annual report shows one in six spam emails now contain some form of ransomware.More

Proofpoint has released the findings from its massive Quarterly Threat Report – some of which are astonishing.More

"By making apps or news articles appear more popular, accepted and legitimate, unknown actors can covertly influence the way we perceive value."More

It’s a case of déjà vu for one particular Android banking Trojan, which has popped up on Google Play after being removed from the store this year.More

The EMOTET banking malware has emerged with a wider target scope than ever before, three years after it was originally found.More

Zscaler has discovered a remote access Trojan (RAT) designed by an author who appears to be crowdsourcing the payload and infection spread.More

A malicious backdoor called BKDR-ANDROM.ETIN is using fileless malware to infect systems through USB flash drives.More