Mike Mimoso talks with Steve Adegbite, Chief Information Security Officer at E*TRADE, about data integrity and some of the challenges he encounters when it comes to encrypting data and dealing with third-party access to data. [embedded content]

Several flavors of ransomware, most notably Cryptowall, have come packaged with support features. But a new piece of crypto-ransomware called PadCrypt has upped the game with a live chat feature that victims can use to interact with the attackers about ransom payments and other information. Discovered by a Swiss researcher at abuse.ch, PadCrypt is the...

VMware on Saturday reissued a patch from October that incompletely addressed a critically rated remote code execution vulnerability in vCenter Server. The original vulnerability, CVE-2015-2342, was a poorly configured JMX RMI service in vCenter Server that was remotely accessible. The flaw allowed unauthenticated attackers connect to the service and use it to run code on...

Nearly three months after it was spotted for sale in a Russian hacker forum, the Mazar bot has been put to use in active attacks targeting Android devices. Researchers at Heimdal Security said on Friday the bot is being sent to Android users via SMS and MMS messages and if the victim executes the APK,...

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Mike Mimoso talks to Kaspersky Lab researcher Vitaly Kamluk who was critical in the discovery of the latest version of the cross-platform Adwind RAT. The remote access Trojan is unique in that it’s written in JavaScript, giving this version—which is also known as Frutas, AlienSpy and JSocket—the flexibility to be used liberally in cybercrime operations...

TENERFIE, Spain – Sergey Lozhkin knows malware. Medical devices? Admittedly, not so much. That, however, was not an impediment to the Kaspersky Lab researcher in cracking the digital walls of a Moscow hospital and finding a shocking array of open doors on the network and weaknesses in medical devices and applications crucial not only to...

TENERIFE, Spain –The rhetoric around hacking the power grid would have you believe it’s a relatively mundane practice. Policymakers, intelligence agencies and vendors, for example, spread the word gleefully, leaning on scenarios such as state-sponsored hackers shutting off the lights in the dead of winter as a scare tactic to glean budget and influence. One...

TENERIFE, Spain–For more than 10 years, attackers have carried out a series of covert attacks on firms worldwide and capitalized on that connection by coercing the companies into a phony business relationship where they can further steal data. Experts with Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team, who today at the Kaspersky Lab Security Analyst Summit...

TENERIFE, Spain–When it comes to the internet of things, it isn’t Wi-Fi that scares Chris Rouland, it’s the whole wireless spectrum, constantly being updated with new and poorly secured protocols. Since these protocols can be reverse engineered so easily, he stressed the modern-day equivalent of the Melissa worm, but for IoT devices could be imminent. Rouland, the...