November 7, 2016

Attacks Hike? New Cybercrime Report Shows 40 Percent Increase for Merchants, Financial Institutions

2 min read - According to a new cybercrime report, security firm ThreatMetrix recorded 76 million blocked e-commerce transactions in Q3 2016, up 60 percent from 2015.

November 3, 2016

Sundown Exploit Kit Poised for Growth

2 min read - With heavyweight exploit kits like Nuclear, Angler and Neutrino out of the picture, the Sundown exploit kit appears poised for growth in the near future.

November 1, 2016

DDoS-for-Hire Forum Gets Denied Service

2 min read - Hack Forums, one of the internet’s largest freely accessible security technology sites, has garnered some unwanted attention lately. When a denizen of the forum released the source code of the Mirai botnet malware, many security researchers found the site to…

October 20, 2016

Novel ASLR Bypass Depends on CPU Hardware

2 min read - Address space layout randomization (ASLR) is a widely-used method that prevents memory corruption attacks by arranging the address space positions of key data areas in a random manner. This technique can be found in the security designs of many applications…

October 18, 2016

TrickBot Malware Resurrects the Ghost of Dyre

2 min read - The authors of TrickBot malware appear to have rewritten the Dyre Trojan's code, leading researchers to suggest that the same developers might be involved.

October 17, 2016

CryPy Ransomware Slithers Onto PCs With Unique, Python-Based Encryption

2 min read - Ransomware is already annoying, but a new strain of CryPy ransomware is appearing on PCs with its Python-based encryption and forcing victims to pay up.

October 17, 2016

The IoT Landscape as an Attack Surface

2 min read - Malware creators often borrow ideas from each other. We have historically seen clusters of malware each trying to do something in a functionally similar way. For example, the coding may change, but it’s still an SQL injection attack at the…

September 29, 2016

Spam Network Hijacking Is on the Rise

< 1 min read - Spamhaus and SpamCop serve as blocklist generators for mail servers all over the internet. They both deal with the unwanted spam that affects users, much of which is fairly innocuous. But since cybercriminals do generate spam as part of their…

September 26, 2016

Loyalty Program Theft: How Cybercriminals Are Helping Themselves to Hard-Earned Rewards

2 min read - Most cybercriminals aren’t looking to make things complicated or cumbersome. Sure, some want the attention that comes with cracking a new system or developing a new attack vector, but most attackers are just in the market for easy money. Users…

Data Protection September 26, 2016

UK Universities Make Rich Targets for Ransomware Attacks

2 min read - Almost two-thirds of British universities fell victim to ransomware attacks in the past year, and the trend shows no signs of slowing down.