Security News

New alerts for Gmail users targeted by state-sponsored attackers (Help Net Security)
2016-03-29 21:31

Since 2012, Google has been warning Gmail users when they have been targeted by state-sponsored attackers, but now the alert will be even more visible (and therefore less likely to be overlooked...

Petya ransomware encrypts files, disks, locks users out of computers (Help Net Security)
2016-03-29 20:01

A new type of ransomware does not only encrypt the victims’ files, but also their disk’s Master File Table (MFT), and it replaces the boot drive’s existing Master Boot Record (MBR) with a...

Researchers Learning More About Petya Ransomware (Threatpost)
2016-03-29 19:48

Researchers are digging through samples of the Petya ransomware, and while they’ve learned some about its inner workings, they still haven’t mastered enough to come up with a decryptor.

New Server-Side Ransomware Hitting Hospitals (Threatpost)
2016-03-29 19:41

Hackers are escalating recent attacks against hospitals with new stains of server-side ransomware whose most recent variants are dubbed SamSam and Maktub.