Displaying items by tag: keylogger

Bitdefender's macOS Threat Landscape Report looks at the top threats and trends targeting the macOS operating system.

GUEST RESEARCH: Today, Radware issued a threat advisory about a for-profit threat group from China called the 8220 Gang. The gang, also known as 8220 Mining Group, has rolled into the New Year targeting public cloud environments and poorly secured applications, using a custom-built crypto miner and IRC bot.

Security vendor WatchGuard Technologies has published its latest quarterly Internet Security Report. Findings for Q3 2021 include a decrease in total perimeter malware detection volume, although endpoint malware detections had already surpassed the total for 2020, with Q4 2021 data yet to be reported.

Czech security company Avast says it has found evidence of ShadowPad, a specialised tool used by a specific group of cyber criminals, installed on four computers at Piriform, a company it acquired last year.

A Swiss researcher has discovered a keylogger in an audio driver on many Windows laptops made by HP Inc.

Alex Eckelberry, the General Manager of GFI Security (the company behind Sunbelt Software) and the false positive result from VIPRE that led to claims that Samsung was shipping the StarLogger keylogger, has apologised.

Remember when Sony was putting rootkits on its CDs and the thunderous outcry it caused? Now Samsung is being accused of putting keylogger spyware on its notebooks, but did Samsung really do it on purpose or it all some massive mistake?