This post was written by Alexej Savcin and Michal Stanek.
When Jamil Qandah got a call from Avast tech support, he had no reason to think that it wasn’t really us calling. It wasn’t until the “tech support” stole his life savings of over $…
Have you ever downloaded a program you needed, only to realize that it’s actually something else? And then had your antivirus software flag it? It can be confusing and upsetting to fall for a deceptive installer — and the Avast Threat Labs can help you…
Researchers at Avast have discovered a total of 204 fleeceware applications with over a billion downloads and over $400 million in revenue on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. The purpose of these applications is to draw users into a free tria…
Today’s malware is a lot like a car. Both cars and malware are made up of many components that enable them to run. Cars have different parts like engines, tires, and steering wheels; malware has loaders, payloads, and command modules.
Recently, Avast Threat Labs researchers were able to obtain information on possible victims of Ursnif malware.
Recently, Avast Threat Labs researchers were able to obtain information on possible victims of Ursnif malware.
Sextortion is an emerging online scam that takes advantage of people’s fear that their most intimate moments will be exposed to the public. They usually come in the form of emails, which are not only dangerous and unsettling but can have serious real-w…
Our team has identified a new advanced persistent threats (APT) campaign targeting government agencies and a government data center in Mongolia.
Within the Aposemat Team, we’ve been working on testing the capabilities of IPv6 and how malware could take advantage of it. One of the topics we explored was exfiltration of data via the IPv6 protocol. In this post, we share our study into this topic….
Our team recently came across an email that was reported to us by one of our board members as a potential spearphishing attempt. The email was purportedly sent from PayPal, and the purpose of the email was a request for the recipient to send money.