The disclosure and recent analysis of thousands of leaked telnet credentials paints a bleak picture of the state of IoT security.

A spam campaign called Blank Slate is spreading Cerber ransomware and abusing hosting providers to register new domains as soon as they’re taken down.

Researchers have spotted an increase in CryptoShield ransomware infections coming from the RIG Exploit Kit used by EITest delivery campaigns.

Microsoft said a Windows SMB zero day, which has a public proof-of-concept exploit available, is low risk and won’t be patched until an upcoming Patch Tuesday.

A spam campaign has started spreading Sage ransomware, while a ransomware service known as Satan allows users to customize distribution.

A recent lull in the distribution of spam linking to the malicious downloader Hancitor has been snapped as researchers warn of new campaigns.

For the second time since June 1, the handlers of CryptXXX ransomware have changed their ransom note and Tor payment site. More importantly to those developing detection signatures and administrators, this update no longer makes changes to the file extensions of encrypted files. “To make it more difficult for administrators, this release no longer uses...

The pseudo-Darkleech campaign is one of the most notorious and ongoing attacks of recent years, making use of major exploit kits to deliver primarily different strains of ransomware. The campaign has been a bit of chameleon since it was disclosed in March 2015 by researchers at Sucuri. The latest bit of its shape shifting involves...

Criminal hackers are fickle about their attack vectors. You need to look no further for evidence of this than their constant migration from one exploit kit to another. And while there is an expansive menu of exploit kits, attackers do seem to congregate around a precious few. Researchers who study exploit kits closely, however, are...

A two-year-old EITest malware campaign is still going strong, fueled by the fact it has shifted its distribution technique over time. Now, researchers at the SANS Institute’s Internet Storm Center, are reporting EITest is morphing again based on analysis of the malware campaign conducted earlier this month. According to researcher Brad Duncan, the EITest malware...