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.

A recent spate of attacks using phishing, social engineering, exploits, and obfuscation are being used to spread a Quant Loader trojan capable of distributing ransomware and password stealers

Ransomware was the most commonly detected malware in data breaches and related security incidents last year, climbing from fourth overall in 2016 and all the way from the 22nd spot five years ago, according to Verizon's just released 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report.

If a victim is not in the mood to play the game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds in order to restore encrypted files, the ransomware creators also supply a decryptor code in the ransom note, the MalwareHunterTeam said.