Malware

An IoT botnet has set its hooks in about 4,500 - 5,000 proxy devices to send spam emails which each device capable of sending 400 messages or a total of 1.8 million messages per day.

In a case where the cybercriminals possibly could end up with more than they bargained for, MalwarHunterTeam tweeted out news of a screenlocker posing as ransomware where the bad guys request nude photos of the victim instead of money.

A Lannister always pays his debts. And you, too, may have to pay up if you become infected with Locky ransomware, delivered in an email distribution campaign that uses Game of Thrones references in its scripting variables.

More data records have been breached in the first six months of 2017 than the whole of 2016. The Gemalto Breach Level Index reports that this amounts to an astonishing 121 records lost or stolen every second of every day.

An aggressive ransomware campaign is infecting victims with a Locky variant that only uses a single identifier for all of its victims.

Some Apple product owners have found themselves on the receiving end of a new ransom attack that has someone locking their device most likely using stolen iCloud credentials and the initiating the Find My iPhone remote lock feature.

The ransomware infection that disrupted Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center and the worldwide WannaCry attack in 2017 caused an ethical and philosophical rift among members of the Russian and Eastern European cybercriminal community.