Tagged: trojan

ChimeraWire: The Click-Fraud Trojan Disguised as a Human User

Experts at Doctor Web have identified a new click-fraud trojan, Trojan.ChimeraWire, which disguises itself as the activity of a real user and artificially boosts website engagement metrics in search results. Infected Windows machines automatically...

New Python Trojan “SilentSync” Found on PyPI

Experts from Zscaler ThreatLabz have uncovered two malicious packages in the PyPI repository that, upon installation and import, secretly deploy the SilentSync Python trojan—a threat capable of seizing control of developer environments and exfiltrating...

New Python Trojan XillenStealer Targets Windows Users

The newly discovered Python trojan XillenStealer, identified by researchers at Cyfirma, poses a grave threat to Windows users. Engineered to harvest system information, stored credentials, and cryptocurrency wallets, it also bundles an array of...

The Silent Threat: How SEO Poisoning Spreads Malware

Chinese-language users became the target of a new SEO poisoning campaign that spread malware through counterfeit download sites for popular applications. Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs reports that threat actors elevated malicious pages in Google results...