New Electrum DDoS botnet steals $4.6M after infecting 152,000 hosts

By Ryan De Souza The majority of the bots are located in Brazil and Peru but the number of victims is constantly increasing across diverse regions. Threat actors who previously targeted cryptocurrency wallets through Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks have now launched another malware...

Malicious Platform Independent Trojan GPlayed Disguised as Google Play Store

By Waqas Newly discovered Trojan malware, which has been dubbed as GPlayed by the IT security experts at Cisco Talos, disguises itself as Google Play Store to trick users into downloading it. After getting installed, it steals location information and bank details from the device. Additionally, i...

Malicious Typo-Squatting

The node-tkinter packages is a malicious typo-squatting package. The package uses a similar name to the original library so that developers may mistake them for the real one but have malicious actions under the hood such as stealing environment variables...