Security News

Update you Flash Player if you don't want ransomware (Help Net Security)
2015-06-29 07:13

It didn't take long for exploit kit authors to incorporate an exploit for the recently discovered zero-day Adobe Flash vulnerability (CVE-2015-3113) into their malicious wares. According to malwar...

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.