PC Magazine

Microsoft Finds Password-Stealing Lumma Malware on 394,000 Windows PCs

The malware often hides behind fake CAPTCHAs and has been used to commit financial fraud. Microsoft took down 2,300 domains that ran it and updated Defender to identify it. Our team tests, rates, and ...
USA Today

Microsoft says it squashed malware that infected 394,000 Windows computers

Microsoft said on Wednesday, May 21 its Digital Crimes Unit partnered with law enforcement and cybersecurity agencies to disrupt an information-stealing malware that infected hundreds of thousands of ...
Forbes

Microsoft Says Nearly 400,000 Windows Computers Infected By Lumma Malware

Hundreds of thousands of Windows computers were recently infected by a malware-as-a-service offering known as Lumma Stealer, Microsoft announced Wednesday, saying it has severed communications between ...
Bleeping Computer

Android malware Crocodilus adds fake contacts to spoof trusted callers

The latest version of the 'Crocodilus' Android malware has introduced a new mechanism that adds a fake contact to an infected device's contact list to deceive victims when they receive calls from the ...
Reuters

US removes malware allegedly planted on computers by Chinese-backed hackers

WASHINGTON, Jan 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday that it has deleted malware planted on more than 4,200 computers by a group of criminal hackers who were backed by the People ...
Ars Technica

GitHub abused to distribute payloads on behalf of malware-as-a-service

Researchers from Cisco’s Talos security team have uncovered a malware-as-a-service operator that used public GitHub accounts as a channel for distributing an assortment of malicious software to ...