Malware

An international contingent of law-enforcement agencies on Friday dismantled the massive Andromeda malware botnet, sinkholing around 1,500 malicious domains and arresting a suspect in Belarus.

Researchers from Zscaler's ThreatLabZ division on Friday released an analysis report on two relatively new open-source ransomware programs, Bugware and Vortex, after tracking recent spam campaigns pushing the strains.

After Kaspersky Lab's software was banned from federal agencies, the company embarked on a transparency initiative.

New Ursnif variants are being tested in the wild and are using redirection attacks to target Australian banks and malicious TLS callback Techniques to achieve process injection.

Cybercriminals used what was most likely a phishing attack to redirect the direct deposited pay checks of 36 Ann Arundel County school employees stealing about $57,000.