Malware

Apple on Monday released security updates for multiple products, and in the process also reconfigured iOS to address a pop-up issue that scammers were abusing to lock users out of their Safari mobile browsers in an attempt to extort money.

The lower house of the Dutch parliament, the Tweede Kamer, was hit with a ransomware attack that managed to encrypt some files before being stopped.

Alley-OOPS! March Madness fans scouring the web for bracket contests and live game streams instead may find themselves all fouled up by online scams, Zscaler reported in a blog post this week.

About a dozen Saudi Arabian agencies were singled out for spearphishing attacks aimed at placing cyberespionage malware on government computers using an infected Word document.

A spate of malicious apps falsely posing as mod programs for the popular world-building game Minecraft were downloaded by users roughly 990,000 times on Google Play before they were reported earlier this month.

A Lithuanian national has been arrested for defrauding two major tech companies out of $100 million by pretending to be a business affiliate.