Malware

A new and insidious ransowmare technique was spotted by MalwareHunterTeam that attempts to blackmail a ransomware victim into committing a crime in order to have their files decrypted and make them feel bad for their attacker.

A new spam campaign spreading both GoldenEye and Petya ransomware has been detected in Germany.

A new malware-laden phishing campaign, dubbed August, targets customer service and managerial staff at retailers.

Proofpoint researchers have written a blogpost detailing a 400 percent increase in Point-of-Sale malware variants across Thanksgiving weekend in the US.

2017 was supposed to be the year ransomware died or at least was put on life support.

The majority of phishing sites today (84 percent) exist for less than 24 hours, with an average life of under 15 hours.

A recently discovered exploit kit called Stegano is infecting select machines via malicious banner ads that, by conservative estimates, have been delivered to over a million users in just the last two months.

In making its announcement on Monday of the shutdown of Avalanche, the U.S. Department of Justice said it turned the tables on the criminals, "by targeting not just individual actors, but the entire Avalanche infrastructure."