Security News

Dridex botnet hacked, delivers dummy file (Help Net Security)
2016-05-05 20:25

Someone is toying with the Dridex botmasters. The botnet, or at least one or more of its subnets that are sending out spam email delivering Locky ransomware, has been compromised again, and has...

Locky Ransomware Borrows Tricks from Dridex (Threatpost)
2016-02-18 11:59

Locky, a new strain of ransomware, appears to be borrowing a trick from Dridex: Using embedded macros to execute malware that goes on to encrypt users' files.

Dridex botnet alive and well, now also spreading ransomware (Help Net Security)
2016-02-17 20:13

Last October’s disruption of the Dridex botnet by UK and US law enforcement agencies and the arrest of a Moldovan bot master have not lead to the death of the botnet. That’s because the botnet is...