Malware

A new barrage of ransomware, capable of siphoning off digital wallets from Windows users, has been detected.

Researchers at Trend Micro spotted the ransomware Chimera in the wild offering victims a commission.

Heimdale Security issued an alert stating a new drive by campaign using the Angler exploit kit (EK) that spreads CryptoWall 4.0.

One of the interesting events of the past couple of weeks is the re-emergence - if it ever really was gone, which I think we can agree it was not - of the Nuclear exploit kit (NEK).

The cyberthreat security firm IID is forecasting the connected devices that will comprise the Internet of Things (IoT) universe are likely to be banded together in a botnet army and used to launch massive attacks by 2017.

Apparently tech support scams never get old. But they have gotten more aggressive, according to a Symantec blog post penned by researcher Deepak Singh.

The Reader's Digest and other WordPress-based websites are once again on the receiving end of a hacking campaign with this one injecting the sites with malware that has uses Angler exploit kit upload various trojans.