Malware & Threats

Researchers at TrapX have observed several hospital attacks where malicious actors disguised their sophisticated tools as old pieces of malware in an effort to...

Malware & Threats

There’s a new player in the ransomware segment that appears to have been created by the actor behind the Dridex Trojan and the Locky...

Malware & Threats

Ransomware authors use various techniques to encourage victims to pay a ransom, and the actors behind a new threat called MIRCOP are employing an...

Malware & Threats

During a recent investigation of Point of Sale terminals (PoS) in restaurants across the United States, PandaLabs researchers stumbled upon PunkeyPOS, a piece of...

Malware & Threats

Malware & Threats

The number of organizations whose customers are targeted by the Android banking Trojan known as “Marcher” has increased considerably over the past period, but...

Cybercrime

Following a couple of weeks of relative silence, the Locky ransomware appears ready to storm unprotected computers once again, with a new infection campaign...

Malware & Threats

The GozNym banking Trojan has been observed targeting the customers of some of the largest financial institutions in the United States, IBM Security warned...

Malware & Threats

Malware & Threats

A recently observed piece of mobile malware that leverages multiple rooting exploits targets nearly 90 percent of Android devices, Trend Micro researchers say.

Malware & Threats

Flash is one of the most abused pieces of software in use. Flexera Software's Vulnerability Review 2016 counts 457 vulnerabilities in 2014 and 2015...

Malware & Threats

As one of the oldest active threats, Conficker continues to lead the malware landscape by number of registered attacks, accounting for 14 percent of...

Malware & Threats

The Cerber ransomware is an international threat and has infected users all around the world, but researchers at Check Point observed campaigns over the...

Malware & Threats

Several security firms have found evidence that the recent attacks against the Democratic National Committee (DNC), the formal governing body for the U.S. Democratic...

Malware & Threats

Chinese cyberspies continue to target organizations in the United States and other countries, but their activities have dropped in volume and have become more...

Malware & Threats

Adobe has patched the Flash Player zero-day vulnerability exploited by a relatively new advanced persistent threat (APT) group dubbed “ScarCruft” in attacks aimed at...

Cybercrime

Malware authors have been long using JavaScript to distribute their malicious applications, but none of them has created a piece of ransomware using exclusively...

Malware & Threats

The Sofacy threat group has been spotted sending a spear phishing email to a United States government agency from an apparently compromised email account...

Malware & Threats

Malware authors are switching from macros to object linking and embedding (OLE) to hide malicious Visual Basic (VB) and JavaScript (JS) scripts in Office...

Malware & Threats

Chinese Cyberspies Target Myanmar and Other CountriesA threat group believed to be affiliated with the Chinese government has been conducting cyber espionage operations against...