An APT group whose actions appear to align with Vietnamese state interests has been actively compromising private corporations and targeting foreign governments, dissidents and media since at least 2014, according to researchers at FireEye.
As the world returned to work on Monday, businesses continued to pick up the pieces following a historic cyberattack that crippled Windows machines across the globe with WanaCrypt0r 2.0 ransomware.
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.