Bleeping Computer

Vault 7: CIA Borrowed Code from Public Malware

Documents included in yesterday's WikiLeaks Vault 7 dump reveal the CIA used code from public malware samples to advance its technical capabilities. A special operational group existed in the CIA ...
HotHardware

Meltdown And Spectre Proof Of Concept Malware Code Hits The Internet

It's been roughly a month since the first reports concerning Spectre and Meltdown began appearing on the web. Since that time, hardware and software companies have been working together to release ...
Network World

Researchers find malware samples that exploit Meltdown and Spectre

As of Feb. 1, antivirus testing firm AV-TEST had found 139 malware samples that exploit Meltdown and Spectre. Most are not very functional, but that could change. It was inevitable. Once Google ...
CSOonline

Unique Malware Samples Broke the 75 Million Mark in 2011

The number of unique malware samples broke the 75 million mark in 2011, McAfee notes in its fourth-quarter threats report for 2011, which also looks back at annual global trends in malicious code ...
Threat Post

Fin7 Ramps Up Campaigns With Two Fresh Malware Samples

Despite the 2018 crackdown on Fin7, the cybercrime group has been ramping up its efforts with two new malware samples and an attack panel. Despite the arrest of several Fin7 members in 2018, the ...
Dark Reading

Attackers Are Already Exploiting ChatGPT to Write Malicious Code

Since OpenAI released ChatGPT in late November, many security experts have predicted it would only be a matter of time before cybercriminals began using the AI chatbot for writing malware and enabling ...
InfoWorld

F-Secure: Malware samples doubled in one year

Innovation is on the decline and being replaced with volume and mass-produced kit malware, according to F-Secure report Finnish security vendor F-Secure has collected twice as many malicious software ...
Bleeping Computer

A First Look at the North Korean Malware Family Tree

Security researchers have analyzed malware samples from threat actors associated with North Korea and discovered connections with tools from older unattributed campaigns. The research is spread over ...
Computer Weekly

Volume of unique malware samples threatens to overwhelm defenders

The cyber criminal underground continues to evolve its tactics in search of the quickest path to a payday, with greater volumes of attacks employing a more diverse range of malware than has ever been ...
ZDNet

Meltdown-Spectre: Malware is already being tested by attackers

German antivirus testing firm AV-Test has identified 139 samples of malware that seem to be early attempts at exploiting the Meltdown and Spectre CPU bugs. "So far, the AV-Test Institute discovered ...