Malware Security Alerts Weekly Report for November 14 - November 20, 2021
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!
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This Week in Malware Video
This episode discusses the following topics: How Loki Locker Ransomware has joined the STOP/Djvu threat family, how Irjg Ransomware cheats PC users out of money if they want encrypted files restored, and how Searchanytimeyoulike.com causes unwanted site redirects using the Microsoft Edge browser.
Malware Security Alerts of the Week
Piton Ransomware
Cybercriminals have released a new variant of ransomware. The name of this new malware is Piton and it follows a ransomware operation plan typical of the previously detected Babuk Locker Ransomware threat, of which the Piton Ransomware is a variant. First, it is deployed to the fraudulently targeted computer, where the threat initiates an encryption process that will lock most of the victim's files. Documents, PDFs, files, databases, images, photos, etc. they will all be rendered inaccessible... more
Wind Blocker Ads
The Wind Blocker advertises itself as a useful browser extension that will save users from all those pesky pop-ups, banners, and other advertisements that appear while browsing. In essence, the application should work as an ad-blocker. Unfortunately, there is one slight problem - it does the exact opposite of what users expect. Indeed, Wind Blocker is classified as adware and a PUP (Potentially Unwanted Program). Adware applications are designed specifically to monetize their presence on the... more
ZAPS Ransomware
The latest STOP/Djvu variant that has been caught in the wild is the ZAPS Ransomware. The threat exhibits largely the same behavior and capabilities as the rest of the variants from this family. Its most distinguishing characteristic is the '.zaps' extension that it uses to mark all encrypted files. The lack of improvements in no way translates to reduced capacity to cause destruction, though. Computers infected with the ZAPS Ransomware will be subjected to an encryption process employing an... more
This Week’s Most Interesting Computer Security and Malware News
Hackers Target Social Media Influencers with Phishing Emails
Researchers working with Abnormal Security uncovered a recent narrowly targeted phishing campaign. The hackers running the campaign were targeting social media influencers and more specifically TikTok users with a lot of followers. The gist of the campaign was an attempted scam, where the threat actors would send out phishing emails. The emails... more
Threat Actors Abuse Alibaba Cloud Services
Security researchers with Trend Micro have reported an observed attack on Alibaba's cloud computing services, known as Aliyun. According to Trend Micro, hackers have been tampering with and disabling separate instances of the Chinese e-commerce giant, abusing the compromised systems for illegal crypto mining. The custom malware used in the... more
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