Proofpoint researchers spotted a previously undocumented ransomware, dubbed CryptXXX, that has been spreading through Bedep after the Angler EK was used to infect computers and is the work of the same group behind Reveton ransomware.
A strain of malicious code written entirely in Python, dubbed PWOBot, has been discovered infecting a number of organisations based in Europe, specifically in Poland.
A deeper probe into the JBoss server vulnerabilities linked to recent Samsam ransomware attacks has uncovered 3.2 million unpatched machines that are potentially susceptible to this attack vector.
The U.S. Cyber Command is taking the information security fight to ISIS hacking into the computers of individual fighters and interrupting the terror group's encrypted communications.
Stealing $100 million from a major U.S. corporation should be hard than setting up a fake email account, but for one cybercriminal enterprise this is all it took.
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