Spiders often evoke a sense of dread, their eight-legged forms and ability to weave webs triggering a primal fear in many people. However, these arachnids play a vital role in our ecosystem, acting as ...

The brown widow spider, Latrodectus geometricus, is an urban invasive species that generally lives under garbage cans, in fences, and around buildings. This study compared behaviors of the ...

Six venomous spiders reside in Mississippi, including three variations of the widow spider. The most medically significant spider bites come from black widows and brown recluses. Many suspected spider ...

Six venomous spiders reside in Mississippi, including three variations of the widow spider. The most medically significant spider bites come from black widows and brown recluses. Many suspected ...

Many of these attacks aim to unleash dangerous payloads such as Latrodectus, BruteRatel C4, and AHKBot on Windows devices along with remote access trojans that can give attackers full control over ...

Black widow spider hanging from web. Image by Marshal Hedin, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons While I don’t encourage ...

Purgat informed about the find in the scientific magazine Check List. A single female Latrodectus hesperus, along with an egg sac, was discovered inside a building within a consignment of machine ...

Latrodectus is a versatile malware family that employs advanced tactics to infiltrate systems, steal sensitive data, and evade detection. Named after the black widow spider genus “Latrodectus ...

The Latrodectus malware loader stepped in to fill the void left by the disruption of major malware distribution botnets such as IcedID. Here’s how it’s being used and how it operates.

The use of MSI files to execute payloads is a successful technique several adversaries, such as DarkGate and Latrodectus, regularly use. However, this is the first time it has been seen being used to ...

Icelandic Institute of Natural History scientists later declared it to be a northern black widow (Latrodectus variolus). Its bite contains powerful neurotoxins that cause agonising muscle pain ...

A Latrodectus variolus’ typically builds their webs out of direct light in wood piles. Black widow waiting for the kill. (Photo courtesy of Getty Images) Wolf spiders usually build their homes ...