Malware

Two updates in TeslaCrypt illustrate that ransomware is not only spreading wider, but is also evolving with new capabilities.

Attacks are getting fiercer and attackers more sophisticated and organized, according to the "2016 Trustwave Global Security Report," released this week.

Trend Micro has dissected malware used in the Operation C-Major attack officers of the Indian army and tracked it back to malware that originated from Pakistan.

Cisco Talos researchers took a deep dive in the Nuclear EK and found that it was well organized and successful.

Less than two months after cybersecurity experts identified KeRanger as the first fully functioning ransomware targeting OS X, an enterprising researcher has chronicled his own attempt at creating a behavior-based ransomware detection tool for Macs.

A variant of the POS malware family known as NewPosThings, called Multigrain, has introduced a twist into its repertoire—exfiltrating stolen payment card data from POS systems via the Domain Name System (DNS).

Google researchers partnered with a research team from the University of California, Berkeley to analyze the infection and potential remediation of more than 760,000 websites during an 11-month period.

Web hosting provider Invision Power Services (IPS) was saved from a software compromise that could have potentially damaged its clients after researchers gathered intelligence on a cybercriminal operation taking place on the dark web.