Malware

The Android SLocker ransomware family accounts for 16 percent of mobile malware in the UK.

Without users noticing, a new attack enables malware to switch on Apple webcams.

As the holiday shopping season approaches, the newest iteration of point-of-sale malware FastPOS appears to have improved its evasion efforts by using modular architecture.

Brazilian cybercriminals are now duping their victims into entering into a live chat by pretending to be part of a bank's customer service department in order to quickly extract critical personal information.

Following its exposé accusing OurMine of web defacements, the website BuzzFeed was itself hit.

Another new ransomware type called Hades, uncovered this week by Proofpoint, that seems to pull in features from several older malware types.

In their new white paper "Great Crypto Failures," Check Point Software Technologies researchers Ben Herzog and Yaniv Balmas poke fun of common malware encryption errors, and explain why some cybercriminals fail to master the art of encryption.