Sixty-seven percent of Android devices are prone to a newly discovered ransomware variant - the first to employ "clickjacking" as a way to fool users into giving away their administrator rights, Symantec warned today in its Security Response blog.
Unit 42 researchers said Scarlet Mimic is behind attacks against minority rights activists that began more than four years, though they've shifted both their tactics and the malware used.
Despite the safety mechanisms baked into the Chrome browser and ChromeOS, Malwarebytes has found hackers are using rogue extensions to perform everything from malvertising attacks to installing adware.
Symantec reported the worldwide infection of 3,500 public servers with a malicious script that redirects its victims to other compromised websites and said it believes could be part of a recon effort for future attacks.
As cyber attacks continue to increase, IT departments continue to be challenged by older techniques, such as targeted phishing attacks, because the attacks bypass perimeter defenses and are difficult to prevent.
