Tag: taiwan

  • Malware authors’ continued use of stolen certificates isn’t all bad news

    A malware campaign has been using code-signing certificates stolen from Taiwanese companies to sign its samples, ESET researcher and regular VB conference speaker Anton Cherepanov writes . Malware signed with stolen certificates isn’t a new phenomenon. Stuxnet famously used stolen certificates, also from Taiwanese companies, and in 2016 Symantec wrote about a malware campaign that…

  • Malware authors’ continued use of stolen certificates isn’t all bad news

    A malware campaign has been using code-signing certificates stolen from Taiwanese companies to sign its samples, ESET researcher and regular VB conference speaker Anton Cherepanov writes . Malware signed with stolen certificates isn’t a new phenomenon. Stuxnet famously used stolen certificates, also from Taiwanese companies, and in 2016 Symantec wrote about a malware campaign that…

  • Infected Seagate hard drives sold in Taiwan

    External Maxtor disks shipped carrying autorun datastealer. A shipment of Maxtor external hard drives, produced in Thailand by US-based Seagate and sold in Taiwan, has been found to be infected with Autorun trojans designed to gather sensitive data from machines connected to the storage devices. The high-capacity (300GB and 500GB) drives in the Maxtor Basics…