Security News

Nuclear Exploit Kit Spreading Cryptowall 4.0 Ransomware (Threatpost)
2015-11-25 12:00

An attacker working off domains belonging to Chinese registrar BizCN has been moving the Cryptowall 4.0 ransomware via the Nuclear Exploit Kit.

A new, streamlined version of Cryptowall is doing rounds (Help Net Security)
2015-11-06 08:14

Cryptowall 4 (although the number is not mentioned in the new, changed ransom note) is not drastically different from version 3. According to malware researcher Nathan Scott, it uses the same encrypti...

Updated Cryptowall Encrypts File Names, Mocks Victims (Threatpost)
2015-11-05 20:09

The latest Cryptowall ransomware update makes it harder to recover encrypted files, and also mocks the victim in a revamped ransom note.