Metamorfo Targets Brazilian Users with Banking Trojans

A recent spate of financial malware campaigns targeting Brazilian companies, collectively dubbed Metamorfo, uses “spray and pray” spam tactics to ensnare their victims. Across the various offensives, the bad actors are abusing legitimate, signed binaries to load the malicious code. As the name...

Sanny Malware Updates Delivery Method

The group behind Sanny malware attacks has made significant changes to the way it delivers their payload. According to new research by FireEye, the attackers have upgraded their delivery techniques when it comes to planting malware on systems via document attachments sent as part of spam and...

Kemoge Malicious Adware Campaign

Google has been busy removing a number of apps from Google Play that are disguised as popular selections that are actually pushing what starts out as adware but eventually turns more malicious. Google has already yanked down a file-transfer app called ShareIt, developed by Zhang Long of China, wh...

APT Group Embeds C&C Data on TechNet Pages

The so-called Deputy Dog APT group has surfaced again with a means of keeping its command and control servers under wraps that involves Microsoft’s TechNet online resources. New research published last week by Microsoft and FireEye revealed targeted attacks against organizations have been...

Some Pushdo Variants Resuming Spam Operations

A few days after the majority of the command-and-control servers belonging to one of the variants of the Pushdo botnet were taken offline, some researchers say that there are indications that portions of the botnet are back to their old tricks, downloading new spam templates for a resumption of...