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Locky ransomware is back, again, delivered with the help of new tricks to fool users and anti-malware defenses. Massive spam campaign Delivered through one of the largest spam …

A spam run detected by several security companies has attempted to deliver malware through an innovative technique: a link in a PowerPoint slideshow. The attack unfolds like …

Compromising legitimate websites and the web servers that store and deliver them is a time-honoured tactic of opportunistic hackers, and a failure to keep them out can result …

Phishing emails impersonating electronic signature technology provider DocuSign are not an unusual sight, but the latest campaign has the added advantage of specifically …

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 …

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 are hitting inboxes, trying to get recipients to hand over their CVs. The scammers are trying to impersonate the popular employment-oriented social …

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 …

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

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 …

Avid World of Warcraft players are being targeted with phishing emails seemingly coming from Blizzard Entertainment, the video game developer behind the popular multiplayer …

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 …