The KillDisk disk-wiper program that was used in conjunction with BlackEnergy malware to attack Ukrainian energy utilities now includes a ransomware component, according to researchers at CyberX.
A newly discovered Android trojan can sabotage entire Wi-Fi networks and the users who connect to them by accessing the router that an infected device is communicating with and executing a Domain Name System hijack attack.
According to a research report, hackers are using Punycode, a technique for encoding domain names with Unicode characters, to bypass anti-phishing protections in Office 365 productivity software.
Hackers are encoding malicious PowerShell scripts in base64 and hiding them on plain-text upload sites such as Pastebin, according to a new research report and accompanying blog post by threat intelligence firm Recorded Future.
Several dozen models of Android phones running on a mobile platform from MediaTek have been found to contain trojans that were secretly implanted in their firmware.
Over the last 12 months, the cybercriminals behind the SamSa ransomware campaign targeting healthcare organizations have raked in at least $450,000 in ransom payments.
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