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Brandon Hill - Fri, Sep 21, 2018
Just when we thought things had cooled down a bit in the botnet space, we're getting word of a new outbreak that it affecting PC users in the United States. Virobot has multi-pronged attack vector, and can not only place a victim's...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Dec 12, 2017
The largest spam botnet in the world has a new trick up its sleeve, prompting security outfit Check Point to place it back in its list of the top ten most prevalent malwares. Called Necurs, the botnet dished up more than 12 million emails...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Oct 16, 2017
Cybercriminals have developed a new form of Android ransomware that gives victims added incentive to pay up. In addition to scrambling the user's data with an AES encryption algorithm, the new ransomware replaces an infected device's...
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Shane McGlaun - Tue, Sep 19, 2017
TrendMicro has published a report that claims that a "sizable" spam campaign is underway and other than just having a bunch of unwanted email to contend with, the spam campaign is also pushing ransomware. The spam campaign is said to be...
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Rob Williams - Sun, Nov 27, 2016
It's been quite some time since malware-laden images have been a major security issue, but the risk is still out there. The attack vector has been exploited recently through a couple of leading social networks: Facebook and...
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