Cybercriminals are taking advantage of the COVID-19 crisis to profit from the unfortunate situation. We have recently discovered cybercriminals adjusting their malvertising campaigns to adapt their malicious ads, making them relevant to the COVID-19 cr…
Last Friday, Brno’s University Hospital in Czech Republic, which is also a testing center for the coronavirus, faced a ransomware attack that paralyzed its computers. The hospital followed standard procedures and notified the Czech National Cyber and I…
Everyone’s got the coronavirus on their minds, including cybercriminals. And I’ve been in this industry long enough to know that, sadly, in the world of online scams, nothing is sacred. Even something as deadly serious as a pandemic will be exploited i…
Over the weekend, Iranian researcher, Nariman Gharib, reported via Twitter that he had identified a coronavirus app collecting sensitive information from users, including their real-time geo-location details, beyond what the app required to function. H…
In late November the Avast Threat Labs team discovered cyberattacks that exploited Brazilian users’ routers to send them to phishing pages designed to look like actual websites the victim wanted to visit. In this case, sites included Brazilian banking,…
In the new 2020 release of its annual Threat Landscape Report, Avast predicts criminals will innovate malicious emails by harnessing sophisticated tools; the mobile industry will be hit by more subscription scams; and IoT data will be a major target. A…
A bunch of coworkers on Skype chat about the good old days, how much money they make now, and sagging morale. “I am getting demotivated, and do not want to do anything,” one tells the group.
Avast researchers have found that Android flashlight applications request an average of 25 permissions to access data or features on mobile devices, potentially exposing users in unnecessary ways.
Avast researchers have discovered serious security vulnerabilities in some 600,000 child trackers for sale on Amazon.com and other large online merchants. The devices expose data sent to the cloud, including the exact real-time GPS coordinates of child…
Avast researchers have worked with French and U.S. law enforcement to stop 850,000 infections by a “worm” – or malware that replicates – by causing the threat to destroy itself.