Malware

Cybercrimals attempting to take advantage of Twitter users curiosity over who visits their page are using a new form of bait that advertises the ability to track such visits.

A massive malvertising operation bought an estimated 1 billion ad views in 2017 under the guise of 28 different fake ad agencies, in what a new report is calling the largest operation of its kind last year.

A Florida state law enforcement officer purchased publicly available software which could allow the interception of social media messages, email and other information.

A new variant of SamSam ransomware was observed targeting multiple industries including Government, Healthcare and ICS.

Heard of the hot new cryptocurrency SpriteCoin? No? That's because it's a fictional fairy tale cooked up by cybercrooks as a ruse to infect wannabe investors with a particularly devilish ransomware program.

Antivirus software can detect the malware embedded in the spoof PDFs, which are only 238 pages long rather than 328 pages like the original.

Initial coin offerings (ICO) are losing about 10 percent of all ICO funds generated to cyberattack due to poor security as malicious actors take advantage of the absence of a centralized authority, blockchain transaction irreversibility and information chaos that presides over this sector.