Malware

A San Francisco Bay-area student accused of hacking his school's computer system to change grades was captured with the aid of a K-9 unit when its dog was able to sniff out a thumb drive holding incriminating evidence.

A zero-day exploiting malware capable of performing credential theft, cryptomining, click fraud, and more has already infected more than 100,000 users from over 100 countries

Someone has leaked the source code for well-established point-of-sale malware TreasureHunter onto an underground Russian-speaking forum, and already cybercriminals are talking about how to further improve and weaponize it now that it's available to the masses.

Cybercriminals were spotted using the likes of a former adult film star to spread a multiplatform spyware disguised as an adult game.

Cybercriminals are branching out from the dark web and into encrypted messaging apps to conduct their nefarious deeds.

Two of the top three crimes, non-payment/non-delivery, and personal data breaches were also in the top spot in 2016 while phishing beat out 419/overpayment scams which dropped to fourth place in 2017, affecting only 23,135 victims compared to the 25,716 victims in 2016.