Malware

Australian and New Zealand businesses are being hit with a ransomware campaign.

The "high-profile incidents you've read about" in media reports were conducted using simple methods, including spear phishing schemes or USB drive delivery, an NSA official said.

"Multiple security issues" were patched for a number of VMware products.

The U.S. Justice Department released a review of the FBI's impersonation of an Associated Press (AP) editor to infect a suspect with malware.

Forcepoint has come across a new trojan downloader called Quant Loader that has been spotted distributing Locky Zepto crypto-ransomware and Pony malware.

Data theft knows no boundaries. Personal information has been siphoned out from databases connected to both presidential campaigns.

As financial institutions scramble to prevent more attacks like the cyber heists that targeted SWIFT members, a recent report offers additional cause for the sector to improve information sharing practices.

A campaign of spam emails that use Microsoft Publisher attachments to infect companies with a Windows backdoor was disclosed by researchers.