Security News

Windows BITS ‘Notification’ Feature Used to Deliver Malware (Threatpost)
2016-06-08 19:11

According to security researchers attackers are exploiting a Windows BITS lesser-known “notification” feature to reinfect PCs with malware over and over again.

Stolen LinkedIn data used in malware campaign hitting European users (Help Net Security)
2016-06-08 15:09

European LinkedIn users are being targeted with highly personalized malicious emails. It is more than likely that the attackers are misusing the compromised LinkedIn user data that has been...

Malware exploits BITS to retain foothold on Windows systems (Help Net Security)
2016-06-07 21:04

If you’re sure that you have cleaned your system of malware, but you keep seeing malware-related network alerts, it’s possible that at some point you’ve been hit with malware that uses Windows’...

FastPOS malware exfiltrates data immediately after harvesting it (Help Net Security)
2016-06-07 16:14

POS malware might have taken a backseat when ransomware became the go-to malware for many cyber crooks, but stealing payment card information to effect fraudulent transactions is still a lucrative...

789% year-over-year spike in malware and phishing (Help Net Security)
2016-06-07 12:30

An analysis of phishing email campaigns from the first three months of 2016 has seen a 6.3 million increase in raw numbers, due primarily to a ransomware upsurge against the last quarter of 2015....

Unsurprisingly, malware incidents set to grow (Help Net Security)
2016-06-06 12:30

Up to half of US organizations have experienced malware attacks which have had a severe impact on their business operations, according to new research by IDG Connect. Forty six percent of...