Security News

Chimera crypto-ransomware is hitting German companies (Help Net Security)
2015-11-03 07:59

A new piece of crypto-ransomware is targeting German companies: it's called Chimera, and the criminals behind the scheme are threatening to release sensitive corporate data on the Internet if the targ...

Regin spyware found on German Chancellery chief's personal laptop (Help Net Security)
2015-10-27 12:14

The German Federal Prosecutor's Office has started an investigation regarding the discovery of the infamous Regin backdoor on the private laptop of the Peter Altmaier, the head of the German Federal C...

Fake PayPal app is going after German users' banking credentials (Help Net Security)
2015-10-02 09:17

An email spam run impersonating PayPal is actively targeting German Android users and trying to trick them into downloading what is ostensibly the official PayPal app, but is actually a banking Trojan...