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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Dark Reading

New Mac Malware Samples Underscore Growing Threat

A handful of malware samples that emerged in 2021 demonstrated once again that Apple's technologies, while less prone to attack and compromise than Windows systems, are not invulnerable. For the sixth ...
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 ...
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 ...
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

Security standoff over PC-PDA malware code

Mobile antivirus researchers and antivirus companies are at loggerheads over access to code for a PC-to-mobile Trojan. The Mobile Antivirus Researchers Association (MARA) said last week that it had ...
Ars Technica

ChatGPT is enabling script kiddies to write functional malware

Since its beta launch in November, AI chatbot ChatGPT has been used for a wide range of tasks, including writing poetry, technical papers, novels, and essays and planning parties and learning about ...