Security News

FTC Panel Encourages Basic Security Hygiene to Counter Ransomware (Threatpost)
2016-09-08 13:00

Panelists at a FTC workshop on Wednesday agreed that better basic cyber hygiene can do a lot to help eliminate the threat of ransomware up front.

Cry Ransomware Uses UDP, Imgur, Google Maps (Threatpost)
2016-09-06 18:40

Ransomware purporting to come from a phony government agency, the Central Security Treatment Organization, has been making the rounds and using Google Maps and Imgur, researchers claim.

Mobile ransomware increases 200 percent (Help Net Security)
2016-09-02 12:15

There’s been a startling 200 percent increase in mobile ransomware detection in Q2, according to Quick Heal. This amounts to nearly 50 percent of the ransomware detected in all four quarters of...

Betabot steals passwords, downloads ransomware (Help Net Security)
2016-09-02 11:45

The infamous and ever-changing Betabot information-stealing Trojan is back again, and has been observed downloading another well-known threat – the Cerber ransomware. Of course, before doing that,...