A legal framework for the U.S. to respond to cyber-offensive operations is still hanging in Limbo as the Director of National Intelligence draws a blank on its status.
Jaff, a new ransomware threat with possible ties to Locky, burst onto the scene on Thursday, flooding networks with high-volume email spam campaigns via the Necurs botnet and demanding well over $3,000 in extortion money to free victims' encrypted files.
The distributor of the ransomware-as-a-service product known as "Philadelphia" reportedly executed an aggressive spam campaign on the jabber messaging platform last month, enticing would-be cybercriminals to purchase its crimeware.
Whilst examining cybersecurity attacks and methods from the first part of 2017, researchers at PandaLabs found cyber-attacks are more complex than ever before.
Sucuri researchers recently observed a malware attack that injected obfuscated code into a JavaScript file in order to steal web users' cookies and hijack their WordPress sessions.
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