Malware

Cybercriminals managed to again compromise the Ammyy Admin website, this time on June 13 and 14 they managed to have it serve malware in addition to the site's legitimate free remote administration tool.

The breach occurred between March 1, 2017 and May 8, 2018, and hackers may have walked away with card numbers, names, expiration dates, internal verification codes and other payment data.

A cryptojacking operation that injects legitimate websites with secret Coinhive shortlinks was recently discovered to be part of an even larger malicious infrastructure that redirects innocent site visitors to servers that distribute both web-based and standard cryptominers.

The five-year-old Trojan-Ransom.Win32.Rakhni family has received a facelift that now allows it to decide whether or not to install its traditional ransomware or to drop a cryptominer instead.

Researchers have uncovered an unusual malicious macro-based malware campaign that effectively modifies an infected user's shortcut files so that they secretly download a backdoor program.

Gamers who recently downloaded a Fortnite cheating app in order to gain an unfair advantage over fellow players found they had a hard time surviving a barrage of malicious ads that followed.