Malware

Exploit kits come and go, but most of today's malicious packages are variants of previous iterations, according to a fall roundup by Malwarebytes Labs.

Officials with the Lansing Board of Water & Light publicly acknowledged on Tuesday that the utility paid $25,000 to regain control of its accounting and email systems in the days following an April 25 ransomware attack.

Cybercriminals attempting to place Locky ransomware are posing as Office of Personnel Management (OPM) employees to con their victims into opening their phishing email and its malware-laden attachment.

Binghamton University researchers are looking to build anti-malware into computer processors to help add another layer of defense to computers.

Kaspersky Lab researchers Anton Ivanov and Fedor Sinitsyn spotted what they are calling the first encryption malware to exploit the Telegram protocol.

Security researchers discovered a search engine spam campaign that plays on WordPress administrators' use of the XML-RPC infrastructure.

If you think teenagers sitting around a campfire spin the scariest stories, then take a listen to cybersecurity pros whose nightmarish tales are much more probable than zombies or a murderer's call coming to a lone babysitter coming from inside the house.

Cyber crooks are looking to exploit financial fear by spreading Locky in phishing emails that claim the recipient's credit card has been suspended.