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Famous Spyware Attacks 2022: TOP Spyware Examples

ByStephanie AdlamMay 11, 2022

Spyware can definitely be called the most sophisticated malware these days. It never acts openly, using tricky techniques, and appears more and more often together with other viruses. Together with its brother-in-law – stealer malware – spyware helps the

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FFDroider Stealer – the new hazard to your social networks

ByStephanie AdlamApril 12, 2022

FFDroider is an example of a modern stealer malware that aims at sensitive data in web browsers. The overall amount of new stealers that appeared in the first quarter of 2022 says a lot about the new malware trends. FFDroider Stealer is the second malware of this type that

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Meta Infostealer Malware Spread via Spam Campaign

ByStephanie AdlamApril 12, 2022

Meta, a newly crafted information-stealing malware, is distributed via a vast spam spree. The mechanism of the stealer injection within this campaign is already well-known. However, Meta is now a mainstream tool among hackers. Therefore, further attacks featuring this

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What Is Password Stealer And How Dangerous Is It?

ByPolina LisovskayaJanuary 27, 2022

Password stealers, or PWS, is the specific malware type that attempts to get your passwords and other credentials. These viruses have been pretty widespread over the last seven years, giving cybercriminals access to the accounts of various individuals and companies. But many

ByStephanie AdlamJanuary 27, 2021

Worst computer virus – what is it? Seems that anyone who has ever been infected asks this question. And each user will think that his case was more severe than someone’s else. Is that true? And which virus is really the worst? It is important to mention that computer

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Five Eyes Alliance, India and Japan Call for Backdoors in Software

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyOctober 12, 2020

Countries participating in the Five Eyes Alliance (which brings together intelligence agencies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United States and the United Kingdom), as well as India and Japan, have once again urged tech companies to leave backdoors in their products

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Chinese hack group SilentFade defrauded Facebook users for $4,000,000

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyOctober 2, 2020

At the Virus Bulletin 2020 conference, Facebook’s security team revealed one of the most complex malware operations it has ever faced. Information security experts told about the Chinese hack group SilentFade, which defrauded Facebook users for more than 4 million

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Experts discovered Chrome largest spyware installation campaign

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyJune 18, 2020

Specialists from the company Awake Security reported about currently perhaps the largest spyware campaign for installing spyware in Google Chrome. As part of the campaign, criminals registered thousands of domains and used extensions in Chrome to install malware on

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Hackers use Discord as a tool for stealing passwords

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyMay 27, 2020

The Bleeping Computer magazine warns that the new version of the AnarchyGrabber Trojan steals passwords and tokens, disables 2FAs and distributes the malware to the victim’s friends. Moreover, attackers modify and use the official Discord client as a tool for stealing

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyMay 25, 2020

As part of the fight against the spread of coronavirus infection, the Qatar government has obliged citizens and residents to install special software on their mobile devices to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. This spyware tracks contacts with infected people. This would sound