Malware

The City of Spring Hill, Tenn. was hit late last week with a ransomware attack after an employee opened a malicious email.

The threat group APT28/Fancy Bear has is now using a little used technique in Microsoft Office that enables it to executive arbitrary code using a Word document, but without requiring macros being enabled.

UFC's Fight Pass pay-per-view site is the latest high profile victim hit with the silent crypto-currency miner developed by Coinhive.

An attack campaign targeting Android users in Austria has been employing a unique trio of techniques to steal their funds: a credentials phishing web page, malicious banking app overlays, and credit card phishing screens.

Asian entertainment website Crunchyroll.com is blaming a DNS hijack attack, after site visitors in the early morning of Nov. 4 were redirected to a malicious website designed to infect them with malware.

The altered missive came from Campaign Chairman John Podesta's email. Podesta was netted in a phishing campaign.