Ars Technica

Found on VirusTotal: The world’s first UEFI bootkit for Linux

UPDATE: November 28, 3:20 PM California time. The headline of this post has been changed. This update is adding the following further details: this threat is not a UEFI firmware implant or rootkit, it ...
Bleeping Computer

VirusTotal apologizes for data leak affecting 5,600 customers

VirusTotal apologized on Friday for leaking the information of over 5,600 customers after an employee mistakenly uploaded a CSV file containing their info to the platform last month. The data leak ...
Bleeping Computer

VirusTotal finds hidden malware phishing campaign in SVG files

VirusTotal has discovered a phishing campaign hidden in SVG files that create convincing portals impersonating Colombia's judicial system that deliver malware. VirusTotal detected this campaign after ...
TechSpot

VirusTotal can now scan and analyze potentially malicious scripts using AI

In context: Launched in 2004 by Spanish security company Hispasec Sistemas, VirusTotal is a renown online scanning system aggregating many third-party antivirus engines (we use it at TechSpot to scan ...
Hosted on MSN

Malware found hidden in image files, can dodge antivirus detection entirely — VirusTotal discovers undetected SVG phishing campaign

Scalable vector graphics (.svg) files are lightweight, XML-based images that render at any resolution. They’re usually harmless, but they can also contain active code, and hackers appear to be relying ...