Microsoft security researchers are warning consumers about a string of fraudulent emails, purportedly from MasterCard, telling card owners they need to click on an attachment to avoid an unwanted charge.
Howard County (Indiana) government officials reported that more files than originally thought were impacted by a pair of ransomware attacks that took place in November.
Russian APT group Sofacy has upped the ante in its campaign to compromise organizations with its "DealersChoice" Flash Player exploit tool, even after Adobe patched a key Flash vulnerability that the tool was observed exploiting.
Several dozen models of Android phones running on a mobile platform from MediaTek have been found to contain trojans that were secretly implanted in their firmware.
Over the last 12 months, the cybercriminals behind the SamSa ransomware campaign targeting healthcare organizations have raked in at least $450,000 in ransom payments.
Technology in development that is designed to stop malicious hypervisors from reading and writing protected data in virtualised environments may not work as intended, researchers say.