Malware

A malicious Microsoft Word document, discovered making the rounds via email, infects victims with the Orcus Rat remote administrative tool by automatically downloading a secondary doc capable of executing an RCE exploit.

At least two new Locky ransomware variants have been released within less than a month of each other although one of the variants is broken.

A University of Kansas student was expelled from the school after allegedly changing his grades from an F to and A using information he obtained via a keystroke logger.

A new and very ambitious malicious Chrome extension called Ldi has been uncovered, one that injects the Coinhive cryptocurrency miner into the target computer, accesses the victim's Gmail and Facebook accounts and registers newly created domains in that person's name.

The cybergang behind the Trickbot banking trojan appears to have set its sights on Latin American as it continues to expands its list of global targets.

Locky ransomware made an unexpected jump into second place on Check Point's Most Wanted Malware of the month list, but was unable to unseat Roughted malverstising software for the top spot.