Malware

Ransomware attacks have hit a community college and a school district in Massachusetts, interrupting online services and classes as school officials work to regain total control of their systems, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

South Korean cybersecurity firm AhnLab Security Emergency Response Center said it has observed a new Linux malware in the wild that deploys a cryptocurrency miner on infiltrated systems using a shell script compiler downloader, reports The Hacker News.

K7 Security Labs reports that unidentified threat actors are using a DLL sideloading technique to deploy malware into victims' systems after gaining entry through abuse of the Windows Problem Reporting tool, according to BleepingComputer.

Here are three good questions to ask that will help security teams get control of malicious macros.

The Raspberry Robin malware, also known as the QNAP worm, has now set its sights on financial and insurance companies in Europe as it continues to become more sophisticated and difficult to analyze by information security experts, The Hacker News reports.

The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles said an investigation is underway after the LockBit ransomware gang announced it had performed a cyberattack on the agency, according to TechCrunch.