Neowin News Feed for: Stealer

Microsoft: Over 394,000 Windows PCs infected by Lumma malware, affects Chrome, Edge, Firefox

Sayan Sen — Wed, 21 May 2025 18:30:01 +0000

Microsoft has released details about Lumma infostealer that infected over 394,000 Windows systems in just two months. Read more...

Fake CrowdStrike manual delivers malware, not recovery

Pradeep Viswanathan — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 15:16:01 +0000

Cybercriminals are exploiting the recent faulty CrowdStrike update outage using a fake Microsoft recovery manual Word document to deliver a stealer malware which is now tracked as Daolpu. Read more...

Beware! Big Head ransomware that looks like Windows update can also delete backups

Sayan Sen — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 09:06:02 +0000

Security researchers discovered that a new ransomware campaign, dubbed Big Head, is infecting devices by fooling users into thinking it is a critical Windows update, and it can even delete backups. Read more...

Cybercriminals are using AI-generated YouTube videos to spread malware

Justin Luna — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 15:34:02 +0000

CloudSEK has discovered that threat actors are recently posting YouTube videos that "offer" cracked software downloads. They are even using AI-generated avatars to make the clips look legitimate. Read more...

Beware: Microsoft lookalike fake Windows 11 download website unsurprisingly downloads virus

Sayan Sen — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 20:32:01 +0000

Similar to many previous campaigns of this nature, a fake Microsoft lookalike Windows 11 download website has been found to infect victims' computers with a novel Inno info stealer malware. Read more...

Fake Microsoft customer support and help file is actually Vidar malware that steals info

Sayan Sen — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 09:00:01 +0000

A new stealer malware called Vidar has been discovered. Vidar is distributed via emails and disguised as Microsoft CHM help or support file that goes on to steal user data and information. Read more...

Beware: New Kraken botnet easily fools Windows Defender and steals Crypto wallet data

Sayan Sen — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 06:52:01 +0000

A new crypto wallet information stealing Kraken botnet has been discovered by ZeroFox. The malware is able to easily bypass Windows Defender scans by simply adding itself as an exclusion. Read more...

Beware: Microsoft lookalike Windows 11 upgrade website is actually RedLine malware hub

Sayan Sen — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 05:44:02 +0000

A fake Microsoft lookalike website has been discovered recently which is distributing a dangerous RedLine malware in the form of a Windows 11 installer package. The RedLine malware is a stealer. Read more...