Security News

Cybercriminals select insiders to attack telecom providers (Help Net Security)
2016-08-24 13:00

Cybercriminals are using insiders to gain access to telecommunications networks and subscriber data, according to Kaspersky Lab. In addition, these criminals are also recruiting disillusioned...

Planes, Trains and Automobiles Increasingly in Cybercriminal’s Bullseye (Threatpost)
2016-06-29 12:19

The transportation industry is increasingly targeted by cybercriminals looking to cause chaos, steal frequent flier miles and extort money with DDoS attacks.

Cybercriminals add DDoS component to ransomware payloads (Help Net Security)
2016-05-24 13:00

Instead of just encrypting data files on a workstation (plus any network drive it can find) and locking the machine, a new variant of the Cerber ransomware is now adding a DDoS bot that can...

Cybercriminals filtering out victims by location (Help Net Security)
2016-05-03 13:00

There’s a growing trend among cybercriminals to target and even filter out specific countries when designing ransomware, according to SophosLabs. To lure more victims with their attacks,...