Malware Security Alerts Weekly Report for September 27 - October 3, 2020

This week, the SpyHunter malware research team has highlighted a weekly roundup of common and critical malware threats that are currently affecting computers around the world. Take a look at this week's report and stay ahead of trending malware threats!

This Week in Malware Video

This episode discusses the following topics: The LokiBot and Mount Locker Ransomware threats are increasing in popularity attacking countless vulnerable computers around the world often seeking millions of dollars in ransom payments at a time. Also, over 200 Alien malware-infected Android apps were found to steal passwords from users.

Malware Security Alerts of the Week

	Search Baron Search Baron is a browser hijacker associated with questionable websites that may load automatically within popular web browser applications on Mac computers. The Search Baron hijacker is known to mostly affected Mac OS systems and sometimes load without consent with other installations of ransom freeware or third-party apps. Read more
	Random Music Playing Virus The Random Music Playing Virus is a computer threat that has long been known to infiltrate a system without permission where it may then perform random actions of playing music or sound in the background. The Random Music Playing Virus may load with the installation of other freeware or bundled apps later causing a major annoyance for computer users. Read more
	Spade Ransomware Spade Ransomware is a misleading threat that may enter a system through opening of spam email attachments. When loaded, Spade Ransomware will seek out certain files and encrypt them only to hold the for ransom, which Spade Ransomware will make its demands known after encryption seeking payment from the victimized computer user to supposedly restore the encrypted files after payment. Read more
	Ghost Antivirus Ghost Antivirus is a fake anti-virus application that may attempt to win-over the trust of Windows computer users by offering methods to detect and remove detected viruses or malware on a system. The Ghost Antivirus may run much like a legitimate antivirus program but it has a misleading objective of getting computer users to pay for a licensed version, which is no better than the bogus trial version of Ghost Anti-virus, both considered to be rogue anti-virus applications. Read more

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This Week’s Most Interesting Computer Security and Malware News

	Cybercriminals Are Still Taking Advantage of Covid-19 with Increased Attacks the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic is taking a toll on many things of human life as we know it. Moreover, COVID-19 remains to be an issue that is leveraged by cybercriminals in the computer world with new phishing and malware campaigns being launched to leverage the pandemic, which computer users should look out for every day.
	Google Removes 17 Apps from Play Store for Malware Infection In recent years, the Google Play Store has had a fair share of malicious apps scouring the service, which ultimately affects Android users with threats of malware that leads to other serious issues, such as identity theft. Recently, Google was proactive in the removal of 17 or more apps due to malware infections.
	New Anubis Data-Stealing Malware Targets Cryptocurrency The Anubis malware threat, known for stealing data on infected computers, has taken on to home-in on a new target - Cryptocurrency. By targeting cryptocurrency, Anubis malware is a gateway for computer hackers and cybercrooks to earn a quick pay-day at the expense of computer users who mine cryptocurrency.