Malware

Concern for hacking prompted the U.S. House of Representatives to block lawmakers from accessing software apps residing on a Google cloud service.

Point-of-sale (POS) malware is still a clear and present danger, say Proofpoint researchers.

The investigation into the bank heist that cost Bangladesh's central bank $81 million has taken a byzantine turn, as a new report surfaced of multiple hacking groups infiltrating the bank's network.

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives and staffers received warnings that the House network has received a rise in attempted ransomware attacks.

Security researchers discovered popular Android applications that execute remote code on devices and use the infected devices to create botnets that engage in ad fraud, DDoS attacks, and spam messages.

Mere hours after word spread last week of a remote code execution vulnerability in the image-processing software ImageMagick, bad actors were already actively exploiting it in the wild

In a move to obfuscate network traffic more effectively, Locky ransomware developers recently upgraded the malware to communicate with its command and control server via both symmetric and asymmetric encryption.