Malware

A Florida man has been charged with federal charges related to the Reveton ransomware scam that prosecutors say he helped operate prior to his hiring at Microsoft.

A Swiss hacking group has reportedly claimed credit for using a hijacked email domain to bombard schools around the U.S. with fake threats of violence. Meanwhile, a credentials phishing campaign is also stoking school shooting fears by impersonating a campus security alert.

Cybercriminals are once again abusing trusted applications, such as Microsoft Office, to launch multi-stage attacks inside malicious documents to deliver Formbook malware

Kaspersky Labs has detailed a large scale nation-state backed malware campaign called Operation Parliament that is targeting governments and high-level officials in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regions.

The tab the city of Atlanta and the Colorado Department of Transportation is paying to clean up from their respective ransomware attacks has climbed into the millions.

As threat actors weaponize more technology, Cisco researchers warn government agencies should look to behavior analytics in order to face new threats.

Malwarebytes has closely examined a relatively new fake update scam that uses a combination of legitimate websites, a real cloud storage site and excellent social engineering to pass along either a banking Trojan and remote access tool to its victims.