Malware

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.

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.