Web Attacks
DYREZA is an online banking malware that is advertised as a spinoff of the infamous ZeuS banking malware. First spotted around September 2014, it caught the security industry’s attention due to its ab...
Industrial control systems (ICS)/SCADA systems have become an area of focus in the security industry due to previous high profile attacks like FLAME and Stuxnet. Despite their significance—these syste...
Background One of the major threat stories in 2013 was the sudden increase in Tor users in August that year. The MEVADE/SEFNIT botnet was the culprit—with the adoption of the Tor module in its oper...
VAWTRAK first made the rounds via attachments to fake shipping notification emails in August 2013. The attachment was actually a ZIP file that contained a malicious file, detected as BKDR_VAWTRAK.
GOZ and CryptoLocker are two of the most notorious malware that we have seen as of late. CryptoLocker is a ransomware that not only locks the system it affects, but also encrypts certain files found i...
Recently, we’ve detected a surge of NECURS infections, each one of them tracked and noted thanks to our own Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™. We detected the surge to start around late February ...
Click fraud is but one of the cybercriminal’s more insidious ways of earning ill-gotten revenue. But what is it, really? And how does MIUREF, a malware family that recently rose in infection counts du...
Although cybercriminals continuously refine their techniques, old tricks remain to be efficient in infecting user systems. One such example is DUNIHI variants which uses removable drives as its infect...
Malicious threat actors, particularly those engaged in targeted attacks, use several tools and routines to circumvent traditional protection. They do this to gain access to an organization’s infrastru...