Malware

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.

Blue Coat analyzed Rombertik, a threat initially uncovered by Cisco, and found that the malware served as an obfuscating wrapper for crimeware tools.

The malware targeted individual merchant locations and not Harbortouch, and Harbortouch's own network was not affected.