Malvertising campaigns discovered by two firms highlight the threat of fake and legitimate—but poorly managed—advertising networks that infect victims by taking advantage of redirected web traffic.
After studying and decrypting Linux/Moose botnet's proxy traffic over six months, GoSecure determined that the vast majority of its fraudulent traffic - 86 percent - was directed at Instagram, while another eight percent targeted Twitter.
A recently discovered Android banking malware campaign targets 94 mobile banking apps used by individuals across at least seven countries including the U.S.
Ten days after privately disclosing an actively exploited, critical Windows vulnerability to Microsoft Corporation, Google's Threat Analysis Group went public with the flaw, despite the lack of a patch.
Threat actors have been discovered trying to infect security-minded individuals with a trojan downloader by sending spear phishing emails that offer free invitations to Palo Alto Networks' Cyber Security Summit in Jakarta, Indonesia.
The healthcare vertical is at particular risk from ransomware. This is just one of the findings of the "2016 Healthcare Industry Cybersecurity Report," a just-released survey from SecurityScorecard.
