CCM

What is Antimalware Service Executable: high CPU, disable

What is the Antimalware Service Executable process? The Antimalware Service Executable (its file name is MsMpEng.exe) process is Microsoft Defender's background tool that is responsible for scanning ...
CCM

Antimalware Service Executable: PC slow, disable, antivirus

The Antimalware Service Executable is a program that runs in the background on your Windows 10/11 PC to protect the computer from viruses and other threats. Sometimes it starts to consume too much ...
BleepingComputer

QBot malware abuses Windows WordPad EXE to infect devices

The QBot malware operation has started to abuse a DLL hijacking flaw in the Windows 10 WordPad program to infect computers, using the legitimate program to evade detection by security software. A DLL ...

Windows CLOSEDQUORUM malware uses AI models to autonomously select post-compromise actions

A new Windows malware called CLOSEDQUORUM can query up to four LLM providers - Google Gemini, DeepSeek, Qwen, and Mistral - ...
BleepingComputer

Remove the Cortana.exe Miner Trojan

The Cortana.exe Miner is a Trojan that uses your computer to mine for the Monero digital currency without your permission. It is not known how this particular miner Trojan is being installed, but it ...
PCMag on MSN

iTorrents.org compromised to spread Windows malware, Kaspersky says

The 'MovieReaper' malware has infected hundreds of users, according to antivirus provider Kaspersky, which traced the attack ...
Hackread

MovieReaper Malware Uses The Odyssey Torrents to Infect Users Worldwide

MovieReaper malware spreads through compromised Odyssey torrents, infecting hundreds of victims while using Solana to locate ...
Dark Reading

Unpacking Packed Malware

Executable compression, a.k.a. "packing,” is a means of compressing an executable file and combining the compressed data with decompression code into a single executable. Throughout the years, ...
BetaNews

Identifying malware with PEStudio

There are many technical tools which can help you identify and understand malware, and we used a few of these very recently while investigating Easy Disk Drive Repair. You don’t have to master all of ...