Malware

Two widely separated ransomware attacks against the Ukrainian energy ministry and the provincial government of Canada's Prince Edward Island (PEI) have knocked each agencies primary website offline.

Looking to get the jump on Bitvote (BTV), a forked version of Bitcoin that launched just last January, attackers recently distributed a trojanized calculator app that downloads a cryptominer targeting the new cryptocurrency.

A malicious chat app that was advertised on Facebook and sold in the Google Play store was discovered to execute a previously undiscovered spyware program linked to APT-C-23, an advanced persistent threat group allegedly with ties to Hamas.

Palo Alto's Unit 42 researchers identified a new botnet malware family described as "Swiss Army Knife Malware" that was designed by a veteran threat actor.

Two Italian researchers from the University of Padua have compiled an estimate of how much money, in bitcoin, has been generated by the various types of ransomware used by cybercriminals.