Malware

Security researchers at ESET reported that the spam-dispensing Mumblehard Linux botnet is no longer active due to the combined efforts of the company, the Cyber Police of Ukraine and CyS Centrum.

Once relegated to Windows, the adware known as Pirrit has now been ported to work on the Mac OS X operating system, and this variant is more malicious than its predecessor ever was, according to the security firm Cybereason.

A new report found 28 percent of doctors store patient data on their cell phones, and 80% of doctors use a mobile device as a tool to assist their daily practice.

The Bill Gates/bot family of malware continues to be used to facilitate distributed denial of service attacks, according to a threat advisory from Akamai's Security Intelligence Research Team.

A thorough analysis of the ransomware Locky by Kaspersky Lab has yielded a series of highly detailed insights on the pernicious software, according the company's Securelist blog post.

As I pointed out last time I had the benefit of working with two malware samples, one from our friends at PhishMe and one from the quarantine at Logix Federal Credit Union. We'll start with the one from Logix.

Researchers discovered more than 100 Android apps infected with Android.Spy.277.origin, an adware Trojan that contains spyware functionality.

Reusable vulnerabilities affecting popular Firefox extensions discovered by researchers at Boston University and Northeastern University were disclosed at Black Hat Asia in Singapore.