Korean Word Processor Scam Alert Orcus RAT Lurking in Cracked Versions

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Orcus RAT, formerly known as Schnorchel, first appeared in April 2016 and allows for remote control of infected systems. Intruders are attempting to deploy a variant of Orcus RAT along with XMRig...

File-sharing and cloud storage sites: How safe are they?

There it is again—that annoying message that pops up when your email client informs you that a file is too big to attach. Those of us that are confronted with this problem on a regular basis—and those of us that want to attach files that could get picked up by anti-malware scanners along the...

PASSTEAL Malware Lurking on File Sharing Sites

Variants of the PASSTEAL malware are propagating by masquerading as key generators for paid applications, popular e-books, and other software on file sharing services, according Alvin John Nieto, a threat response engineer at TrendMicro’s TrendLabs. PASSTEAL, as its name suggests, is a piece of...