The City of Spring Hill, Tenn. is still suffering from the effects of a ransomware attack that struck the municipality in early November when government officials refused to pay the $250,000 ransom demanded by the cybercriminals.
Seeking to prove its anti-virus software did not help Russian cyber spies steal U.S. hacking tools from an NSA contractor's laptop, Kaspersky Lab has released findings from an internal probe, including apparent evidence that said laptop had been infected with malware.
Forces of the dark side are hijacking send-to-a-friend (a.k.a. share-with-a-friend) social sharing modules to send random Star Wars quotes and malicious links.
A newly discovered banking trojan, targeting U.S. financial institutions and services since at least September, is already as advanced in its capabilities as its predecessors Zeus, Gozi, and Dridex, researchers from IBM have reported.
Cryptocurrency miners are becoming one of the most prolific threats facing everyone from CISOs to consumers, with Check Point naming this type of malicious software to its Ten Most Wanted Malware list for October.
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