Security News

DMA Locker ransomware ready for mass distribution (Help Net Security)
2016-05-24 18:54

According to Malwarebytes’ researcher Hasherezade, we’re in for a lot of pain once the new and improved DMA Locker ransomware starts doing the rounds. Its first two versions, which appeared in...

Cybercriminals add DDoS component to ransomware payloads (Help Net Security)
2016-05-24 13:00

Instead of just encrypting data files on a workstation (plus any network drive it can find) and locking the machine, a new variant of the Cerber ransomware is now adding a DDoS bot that can...

Master Decryption Key Released for TeslaCrypt Ransomware (Threatpost)
2016-05-19 13:41

The criminals behind the TeslaCrypt ransomware have closed up shop and publicly released the master decryption key that unlocks files encrypted by the malware.