Malware

Of the 83 files, 79 were unique, and more than 50 percent were confirmed to be malware, adware, or potentially unwanted programs.

Between February and April, cybercriminals used the ransomware to extort $76,522 from 163 victims, FireEye found.

According to one analysis of the threat, the attacker used a keylogger to capture anything typed using the keyboard.

FireEye Threat Intelligence and the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center observed a command-and-control obfuscation tactic leveraging the TechNet website.

Incapsula found that each compromised router was, on average, infected with four variants of MrBlack malware, which is used for DDoS attacks.

Two new pieces of file encrypting ransomware have been identified, one by Symantec and the other by a security researcher at Rackspace.

The celebrity chef's website was again redirecting visitors to the Fiesta Exploit Kit and infecting their systems with malware.

Malwarebytes wrote on its blog that this new campaign requires no user interaction to drop the malicious payload on unsuspecting adult website visitors.