Malware

Automatic back-up feature protected Central Platte Natural Resources District computer system.

A researcher has warned of a new Facebook instant message spam campaign designed to trick recipients into downloading a malicious downloader script, which a second researcher said he observed downloading Locky ransomware.

November 21 marks the eighth anniversary of Conficker being discovered and according to researchers at ESET it is still going strong.

Back in 2015 we first became aware of a new bot system called DiamondFox. Because it was involved with a project called Gorynych (Dragon) the two have become terms/names used interchangeably.

A security expert who hooked up an Internet-connected surveillance camera for research purposes reported via Twitter on Friday that the device was compromised by IoT malware after just 98 seconds of being online.

White hat hackers invited to squash bugs in processors from chip vendor Qualcomm in a bid to fix the "Achilles Heel" of the IT industry.

In a survey of 500 cybersecurity decision-makers, 48 percent of respondents said that their organizations were attacked by ransomware.

Updated! The fact that cybercrime impacts hundreds of millions of people, has cost its victims more than $100 billion and most people know of the danger has done little to limit the general complacency and unsafe behavior still prevalent among internet users.