Dec 5, 2016 | Cyber-Crime
Ransomware seems to have maintained its attractiveness among cybercriminals, steadily growing on multiple operating system platforms – including mobile since 2014. Android users have been targeted by various versions of this extorting malware, most frequently by the...
Dec 1, 2016 | Cyber-Crime
In an ‘unprecedented global law enforcement response’ to cybercrime, federal investigators in the United States, United Kingdom and Europe have today announced that they have dismantled a sprawling cybercrime machine known as “Avalanche” — a distributed,...
Dec 1, 2016 | Cyber-Crime
A new variant of a well-known malware program called ‘Googlian’ has infected more than one million accounts via phones that run older versions of Google’s Android operating system, mostly outside the U.S., according to security firm Check Point. The...
Nov 28, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Malware and Exploits
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency gave customers free rides on its Metro light-rail service all day Saturday, a precaution they took after an apparent hack of the agency’s computer system. Pink “Out of Service” messages shone from the ticket machines...
Nov 26, 2016 | Cyber-Crime
Since it first appeared, ransomware’s profitable business – in short, compromising and encrypting data belonging to companies and users and requesting payment in exchange for the restoration of infected files –has grown rapidly. One of the threats that has had a...
Nov 26, 2016 | General Security
Since it first appeared, ransomware’s profitable business – in short, compromising and encrypting data belonging to companies and users and requesting payment in exchange for the restoration of infected files –has grown rapidly. One of the threats that has had a...
