Over the last month and a half, ThreatConnect has authored a number of blog posts pulling at strands of a nebulous Russian spiderweb of malicious infrastructure – one data pointRead More →
Scylex – “the next big thing” in terms of banking trojan. Threat-intel experts from Heimdal Security and the CSIS Security Group have uncovered a new banking trojan called Scylex, currently advertisedRead More →
Corporate cybercrime and information theft has become a very lucrative business for malware developers. Not only does it allow them to steal corporate secrets to sell to the highest bidder, but it canRead More →
“DiskFiltration” siphons data even when computers are disconnected from the Internet. Researchers have devised a new way to siphon data out of an infected computer even when it has been physicallyRead More →
Sławomir Jasek with research firm SecuRing is sounding an alarm over the growing number of Bluetooth devices used for keyless entry and mobile point-of-sales systems that are vulnerable to man-in-the-middleRead More →
The good news? Hacks are limited for now. The bad news? Hackers will get better. Security researchers are eager to poke holes in the chip-embedded credit and debit cards that haveRead More →
With the threat of ransomware hanging over every company’s head, does it make sense for companies to stockpile a few bitcoins in the event of a ransomware attack? Yeah, yeah, IRead More →
What do spies use to chat online? A terribly ugly Windows programme. At least, that’s what the Five Eyes intelligence alliance (made up of the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand andRead More →
Proofpoint researchers originally discovered the CryptFIle2 ransomware in March [1]. At the time, it was spreading via exploit kits (EKs); however, beginning on August 3, 2016, we detected the firstRead More →
A new Windows Activation scam has been discovered by Malwarebytes security researcher Pieter Arntz. When I installed the sample, I discovered that this PC Tech Support scam, like many others recently,Read More →
