Malware

The aggressive Russian APT group Sofacy targeted yet another European government agency earlier this month, attempting to infect the organization with unknown malware using a crafty new variant of its Adobe Flash-based exploit platform DealersChoice.

Malware active in South Korea, redirects calls to scammers. Security researchers have discovered a new variant of the Fakebank malware.

The suspected Chinese cyberespionage group dubbed "TEMP.Periscope" is targeting U.S. engineering and maritime Industries in its latest campaign.

Prilex, a point-of-sale malware program that's historically been used to steal money or payment card information Brazilian ATMs and retailers, has now evolved into a comprehensive tool suite that lets cybercriminals steal chip and PIN card data and create their own functioning, fraudulent plastic cards.

Independent researchers collected $267,000 in bug purchases this week at the annual Pwn2Own contest at CanSecWest in Vancouver, after demonstrating vulnerability exploits in Apple (5 bugs), Microsoft (4), Oracle (2), and Mozilla software (1).

Intel is redesigning its chips in order to combat Spectre and Meltdown attacks, also known as Project Zero Variant 1, 2, and 3.

Kroll Cyber Security has detected a small footprint Point of sale malware called PinkKite that is currently active in the wild.