Malware

New tools and techniques used by the Confucius cybergangs suggest further connections between the group and the Patchwork cybergang.

Hackers with a taste for the finer things in life found a host of vulnerabilities in multiple BMW vehicles while tech-savvy car thieves managed to hack into and steal a Mercedes-Benz in 23 seconds.

A spam campaign called Brain Food has been feeding email recipients a steady diet of junk messages containing links to pages promoting bogus intelligence-boosting supplements and diet pills.

Allied Physicians of Michiana, Mich., reported it was hit with a SamSam ransomware attack, but was able to quickly restore its systems and the healthcare facility does not believe any patient data was compromised.

A pair of Trend Micro research teams has detected and done a quick cyber autopsy on a new Mirai-like attack that popped up in Mexico earlier this month targeting Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) home routers and IP webcams.

A recently discovered a DNS hijacking campaign that was found spreading banking trojan malware to Android smartphone users largely in Asia has expanded it reach to iOS and PC users as well, while targeting speakers of 27 different languages.

Computers users infected with the newly observed cryptojacking malware WinstarNssmMiner will be surprised to discover that the nasty malware crashes their machines if they try to terminate the program, making it difficult to remove.