Malware

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.

Yahoo called a Reuters report that it allowed secret spying of its customers' email "misleading," but the privacy implications are being debated not only by the tech and legal communities but the public as well.

A backdoor malware campaign dubbed OilRig that in May was discovered targeting organizations in Saudi Arabia is now trying to drill into government entities in Turkey, Israel and the U.S., as well as Qatari companies and organizations.

Several Spotify users are reporting that the streaming music service is serving malware to its users through its advertiser network.