What began as an aggressive phishing-based malware campaign against Turkish financial institutions earlier this year appears to have since burgeoned into a worldwide cyberspying and data theft operation targeting a wide range of industry sectors with at least two malicious implants.
California's Center for Orthopaedic Specialists (COS) last week disclosed that its three facilities were affected by a ransomware attack on a third-party system that allowed adversaries to access patient data and encrypt it for the purposes of extortion.
An evolved variant of Necurs botnet malware is using .URL files -- known as internet shortcuts -- as part of its infection chain in order to bypass conventional detection methods.
Cybercriminals are nothing if not attuned to finding new customers for their wares, as Check Point and CyberInt have come across a next-generation phishing kit for sale on the Dark Web geared toward the neophyte, but discerning, hacker.
Russian hackers have taken a shine to a new cybercrimeware kit called Rubella Macro Builder that is being touted as fast, cheap and capable of beating a basic antivirus defensive system.
In the age where cryptomining software is beating out ransomware as the go to for most hackers, a Python-based Monero miner is using stolen NSA exploits to gain an edge
