A new research report from website security firm Sucuri provides an inside look at what happens when two competing malicious codes battle for the same territory.
Perhaps as part of a last desperate attempt to make their way onto Santa's "nice list" cybercriminals seemingly took a break in December, particularly in the amount of ransomware being distributed.
Citing increased risk and a lack of profit, the Shadow Brokers hacking group that has been attempting to sell cyber tools apparently stolen from the U.S. National Security Agency announced Thursday that it was going silent.
Researchers have discovered two connected advertising fraud campaigns that compromise legitimate web sites and abuse Google AdSense, using tactics that are almost polar opposites of each other.
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