ransomware

When a business, social network or any other online service that you use or have signed up for sends you an email, they address you by the name you provided. This is one of …

The Spanish Police, working closely with the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) at Europol, have dismantled the largest and most complex cybercrime network dedicated to …

The effectiveness of exploit kits has made them malware peddlers’ preferred way of distributing their malicious wares. The Blackhole exploit kit is, by far, the most …

While malware such as viruses, worms and Trojans strives to remain hidden from view for as long as possible, scareware (rogueware and ransomware) aims to be as noticeable and …

With all the recent Java zero-day vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild and Internet news outlets heavily covering the development of the situation, many users will look …

Ransomware has replaced fake AV as the most high-profile and annoying malware targeting computer users around the world, and the approach is always the same: the owners of the …

Detectives from the Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) arrested three people in connection with using ransomware to blackmail people. It has been alleged that computer users …

The U.K. Metropolitan Police’s Central e-Crime Unit has arrested three individuals that have allegedly participated in a scheme to defraud Internet users by making them …

Trend Micro researchers have recently spotted a variant of the Reveton ransomware that not only shows a message claiming that the affected computer has been blocked because of …

The deadly combination of the Citadel malware and the Reveton ransomware is still widely used to steal information and money from uninformed users, the Internet Crime …

Last week malware peddlers have managed to compromise the DNS records of Go Daddy hosted websites so that they would redirect victims to malicious sites hosting the Cool …

Trend Micro researchers have spotted two ransomware variants bearing the same (probably stolen) digital signature in order to fool users into running the files. Other than …