Security News

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,...

Cybercriminals increasingly exploiting human nature (Help Net Security)
2016-04-27 13:05

Cybercriminals are exploiting human nature as they rely on familiar attack patterns such as phishing, and increase their reliance on ransomware, finds the Verizon 2016 Data Breach Investigations...