The number of cyberattacks targeting financial institutions and their customers soared to new heights in 2016, according to Kaspersky Lab, which observed nearly 1.09 million banking trojan attacks on users in 2016.
Android users who recently downloaded the Good Weather app received quite a bit more than just a weather forecast: primarily having their mobile banking app compromised.
A sophisticated cyber espionage operation focused primarily within Ukraine reportedly uses malware that leverages Dropbox to exfiltrate stolen data, including conversations recorded by infected computers' audio microphones.
Macs are officially no longer immune to XAgent, a backdoor malware linked to the Russian threat group APT 28, as researchers have now discovered a version targeting machines running on OS X.