Carbon Black, a player in what is commonly referred to as the “next-generation endpoint security” market, announced on Tuesday that is has acquired antivirus firm of Confer.
Carbon Black, a player in what is commonly referred to as the “next-generation endpoint security” market, announced on Tuesday that is has acquired antivirus firm of Confer.
Cybercriminals breached the official website of the popular remote administration tool Ammyy Admin and leveraged it to deliver Lurk and other pieces of malware, researchers at Kaspersky Lab reported on Monday.
Cybercrime, we are told, is becoming increasingly professional -- it is being run like a business. If this is true, then selling ransomware decryption keys is almost the perfect business model. It has low start-up costs; is free from both corporation tax and regulators via bitcoin payments and Tor communication channels; it is repeatable business; and it fulfills a strong customer need.
A serious vulnerability in the Mac OS X firewall Little Snitch could have been exploited by hackers to gain root privileges on a system or execute arbitrary code in the context of the kernel.
CryptXXX, one of the most prevalent ransomware variants out there, is now leveraging spam emails for distribution, researchers at Proofpoint warn.
Security weaknesses on many popular fitness trackers may allow hackers to access or potentially manipulate user data, a study showed Monday.
SFG, the Furtim-related piece of malware that was said last week to be specifically targeting “at least one European energy company,” might have no special interest in the energy sector after all, but is instead more focused on evasion and on stealing passwords and money.
The Pokémon GO hype isn’t over, and more cybercriminals are taking advantage of it. After a malware-riddled Pokémon GO app emerged over a week ago, researchers have also found a fake lockscreen app in Google Play under the name of Pokemon Go Ultimate.