
Locky ransomware makes a comeback, courtesy of Necurs botnet
The Necurs botnet has, once again, begun pushing Locky ransomware on unsuspecting victims. The botnet, which flip-flops from sending penny stock pump-and-dump emails to …

Alleged Kelihos botmaster indicted
36-year-old Pyotr Levashov was charged on Friday in the US with one count of causing intentional damage to a protected computer, one count of conspiracy, one count of …

Fake LinkedIn emails phishing job seekers
Fake LinkedIn emails are hitting inboxes, trying to get recipients to hand over their CVs. The scammers are trying to impersonate the popular employment-oriented social …

MS Office zero-day is used to infect millions of users with Dridex
The still unpatched MS Office zero-day vulnerability publicized by McAfee and FireEye researchers this weekend is being exploited to deliver the infamous Dridex banking …

UK residents hit with extremely personalized scam emails
A compelling and potentially very successful email spam campaign is being leveraged against UK residents, warns Sophos researcher Paul Ducklin. The email addresses the …

Number of compromised records up 566% in 2016
The number of records compromised grew a historic 566 percent in 2016 from 600 million to more than 4 billion. These leaked records include data cybercriminals have …

Phishers offer WoW players free in-game pets
Avid World of Warcraft players are being targeted with phishing emails seemingly coming from Blizzard Entertainment, the video game developer behind the popular multiplayer …

How the Necurs botnet influences the stock market
After a three-months-long partial hiatus, the Necurs botnet is back to flinging spam emails left and right. But unlike before the break, when it was mostly delivering the …

Offer of nude celeb photos turns Twitter users into spammers
If not careful, Twitter users who are dead set on seeing nude photos of WWE star Paige will end up on marketers’ spam lists and with their own Twitter account pushing …

Why DMARC is critical to reducing spread of malicious emails
There is a fix that can prevent a great amount of email-born attacks on consumers and businesses. Unfortunately, the vast majority of public and private organizations …

Malicious spam volume hits two year high
According to the Kaspersky Lab Spam and Phishing in Q3 report, the company’s products blocked 73,066,751 attempts to attack users with malicious attachments. This is the …

Pawn Storm raced to pop many targets before Windows zero-day patch release
As promised, Microsoft provided this Tuesday a patch for the Windows zero-day (CVE-2016-7855) actively exploited by the Strontium (aka Pawn Storm) cyber espionage hacking …
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