Malware

A massive new IoT botnet dubbed Satori has emerged, which security researchers fear, can launch crippling attacks at any time. According to the IBT the botnet has already infected more than 280,000 IP addresses in just 12 hours.

Malware-free or fileless, attacks are on the rise as the lines between nation-state sponsored attack groups and eCrime threat actors are blurred.

The county spent at least $235,488 on responding and investigating the breach.

The cryptomining malware being pushed from cloudflare.solutions has seemingly added keylogger functionality to its mix with PublicWWW reporting that more than 5,400 Wordpress sites are now infected.

Hackers have locked up the Mecklenberg, N.C. county computer system and are demanding that a two-bitcoin ransom to release the servers be paid by December 6, just one day after the attack was launched.

The spoofed emails are "virtually unstoppable," said the researcher who discovered the MailSploit vulnerabilities.

The suspect whom international authorities arrested in Belarus during a Nov. 29 operation to dismantle the Andromeda botnet has been identified with a high degree of certainty as Jarets Sergey Grigorevich - aka Ar3s, a high-profile cybercriminal and malware expert.

A former NSA employee pleaded guilty to taking classified national defense information that was later stolen by Russian spies.