Malware

A recently uncovered tech support scam campaign has compromised thousands of websites with malicious ad injections that redirect users to a browser locker page that claims their computers are infected.

SynAck targeted ransomware was seen in the wild using the Doppelgänging technique which was first presented as a proof of concept in December 2017.

An imitation of the popular Telegram app made its rounds on Google Play as Russian government ordered the immediate blocking of messaging app.

Phishing emails supposedly from Airbnb hosts seem to be directed to business addresses and ask potential victims to accept a new privacy policy in the lead up to GDPR.

The volume of ransomware attacks in 2017 increased dramatically, but almost all of this growth was due to the appearance of WannaCry, a new report states.

Researchers have discovered a versatile cryptominer worm that propagates itself by exploiting vulnerabilities in Microsoft's SMBv1 server, Oracle's WebLogic Server and Apache Struts, as well as by brute force attacking Microsoft SQL servers.