Security News > 2016 > May

Amazon Users Targets of Massive Locky Spear-Phishing Campaign (Threatpost)
2016-05-26 16:05

Researchers tracked a Locky ransomware and spam attack that spoofed an Amazon shipping email that included an estimated 100 million sent missives.

DNS provider NS1 hit with multi-faceted DDoS attacks (Help Net Security)
2016-05-26 15:50

Early last week, DNS and traffic management provider NS1 was hit with a series of DDoS attacks that lasted several days, and managed to impact DNS delivery in the European, American and Asian...

Canary Watch Project Runs Its Course (Threatpost)
2016-05-26 14:41

The coalition behind CanaryWatch.org, a database of warrant canaries, has decided to no longer accept new submissions, nor monitor existing canaries for changes.