Malware

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that a recently observed spam campaign offering an $8 million prize to whoever can answer three questions about the late astrophysicist Stephen Hawking is a big-time scam.

Cyber-security executives and business decision makers question whether phishing emails or ransomware attacks are the most potent threats faced, but are businesses equipped to implement all-round risk mitigation strategies?

A recently published Kaspersky Lab report that exposed a sophisticated, six-year cyber espionage campaign targeting the Middle East and Africa disrupted an active counterterrorism operation, according to an article this week by CyberScoop, citing current and former U.S. intelligence officials.

A campaign pushing the potentially unwanted app downloader ICLoader was found also to be dropping malware in addition to its traditional advertising and useless software.