Security News

Newly patched Flash Player bug exploited to deliver crypto ransomware (Help Net Security)
2015-06-17 07:37

It took less than a week for a functional exploit for a recently patched Adobe Flash Player vulnerability to be added to the Magnitude exploit kit, Trend Micro researchers warn. "We saw a similar i...

Massive growth in new ransomware, malware targeting Adobe Flash (Help Net Security)
2015-06-10 07:25

In the first quarter of 2015, McAfee Labs registered a 165 percent increase in new ransomware driven largely by the new, hard-to-detect CTB-Locker ransomware family, a new ransomware family called Tes...

Author Behind Ransomware Tox Calls it Quits, Sells Platform (Threatpost)
2015-06-04 15:41

The developer behind Tox, a ransomware-as-a-service tool that only surfaced late last month, acknowledged he's over his head and will sell the platform off.

Locker Ransomware Decryption Keys Posted Online (Threatpost)
2015-06-02 17:38

The author of the Locker crypto-ransomware posted decryption keys to Pastebin and said the malware was to begin activating itself at midnight.