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The Kelihos botnet has switched to dropping ransomware onto targeted computers, and is currently spreading the Troldesh malware family, security researchers warn.

While packed with a load of new security features, Window 10 doesn’t offer some of the additional protections that Microsoft’s Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit...

Scammers are abusing YouTube as a new way to promote backdoored phishing templates and provide potential buyers with information on how to use the...

The cybercriminals behind the notorious Cerber ransomware family have released three new versions of the malware this week, with the most notable change being...

Users can now check whether their network is exposed to Mirai, one of the most prolific botnets to have targeted Internet of Things (IoT)...

TeleCrypt, the file encryption ransomware that abuses Telegram API for communication, has had its encryption cracked just two weeks after the threat was originally...

Organizations in the healthcare sector continue to be the main targets of the Gatak Trojan, a piece of malware that can steal information and...

Distributed via spam emails pretending to be complaints from an Internet Service Provider (ISP), a newly observed Locky ransomware variant appends the .AESIR extension...

News of a backdoor in routers produced by China-based networking solutions provider Netis Systems might be of the past, but the vulnerability is part...

A newly discovered Android banking Trojan has been designed not only to be resilient to anti-malware applications, but also to counter them by preventing...

Starting on February 14, 2017, Microsoft’s Edge and Internet Explorer 11 web browsers will no longer load sites protected with a SHA-1 certificate, but...

Mozilla this week released Firefox Focus for iOS, a privacy-focused web browser that gives users an increased level of privacy when browsing the Internet...

A log of all phone calls made from iPhone devices running iOS 8 or newer may be automatically synchronized to iCloud and susceptible to...

The insecure implementation of the OTA (Over-the-air) update mechanism used by numerous Android phone models exposes nearly 3 million phones to Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks...

A newly observed piece of ransomware isn’t targeting files to encrypt as most threats in this category do, but rather scrapes Skype and social...

In 45 days, Certificate Authorities (CAs) will no longer issue certificates using the SHA-1 cryptographic hash function, but 35% of websites still use such...

The developers of the Apocalypse ransomware have contacted a security researcher to ask for help after discovering that a coding bug was haunting their creation.

The Mirai Internet of Things (IoT) botnet has been using STOMP (Simple Text Oriented Messaging Protocol) floods to hit targets, a protocol that isn’t normally associated...

Mozilla this week released Firefox 50 in the stable channel to patch 27 vulnerabilities and to provide users with improved Download Protection.

A new ransomware family spotted for the first time recently is already being distributed via an exploit kit (EK).