Unlike traditional malware that requires a user to click a suspicious link or file, a newer generation of malicious software can install itself onto devices without direct user interaction.

While Jeff Schmidt, the CEO of JAS Global Advisors, was surfing the Web on his new Android smartphone (his first Android phone) earlier this year, what appeared to be an ad popped up on his screen.

In November 2024, Microsoft Incident Response researchers uncovered a remote access Trojan (RAT) called StilachiRAT. This discovery highlights the evolving nature of cyber threats, with the malware ...

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New research shows that enterprise organizations these days are far more likely to experience malware downloads from cloud applications than any other source. Researchers at Netskope recently analyzed ...

A recent update to Windows 10's Microsoft Defender antivirus solution ironically allows it to download malware and other files to a Windows computer. Legitimate operating system files that can be ...

Malwarebytes Free was at a disadvantage due to its lack of a real-time protection module that would check downloads for malware. The free edition managed 73% protection, slightly less than when last ...

The developers of Free Download Manager (FDM) have published a script to check if a Linux device was infected through a recently reported supply chain attack. Free Download Manager is a popular ...

Google researchers have developed a combined client- and server-side system that uses blacklisting, whitelisting and the characteristics of an executable file to catch nearly 99% of all malicious ...

A new version of the TDL rootkit-type malware program downloads and abuses an open-source library called the Chromium Embedded Framework that allows developers to embed the Chromium Web rendering ...