The WannaCry story has new life with the attacks having withdrawn the Bitcoin collected as ransom during the attacks, and with the detainment of killswitch researcher Marcus Hutchins in Nevada.

Pharmaceutical kingpin Merck reported that operational disruptions continue more than a month after the NotPetya wiper malware attacks.

Makers of Copyfish OCR software get taken on wild ride after code for its Chrome extension is stolen.

At Black Hat last week, an add-on Windows driver and filesystem called ShieldFS was unveiled that detects ransomware and recovers files.

Hackers at DEF CON last week exploited vulnerabilities in electronic pollbooks and voting machines with ease.

The authors behind the Android banking malware family Svpeng have added a keylogger to a recent strain, giving attackers yet another way to steal sensitive data.

A ransomware study released Google revealed the malware earned criminals $25 million over the past two years.

APT Cobalt Gypsy or OilRig, used a fake persona called “Mia Ash” to ensnare tech-savvy workers in the oil and gas industry into downloading PupyRAT malware.

Spyware called Adups found on millions of low-end phones is still collecting personal identifiable information of users despite public outcry.

This week at Black Hat, Mac malware expert Patrick Wardle will describe how he used a custom-built command and control server to analyze new spying capabilities in a variant of the FruitFly backdoor.