Cybercrime & Digital Threats

The adware known as Fireball has been making waves after reportedly infecting over 250 million computers worldwide, with 20 percent occurring on corporate networks. What is it, how dangerous is it and what can be done to defend against it?

Chat platforms have become popular as office communication tools thanks to availability of APIs that allow users to integrate the apps. Can they be abused?

Hidden Tear variants continue to proliferate, now more sophisticated and with new features. New ransomware also provides victims with more convenient payment options and more elaborate interfaces.

After the Week of WannaCry, the ransomware scene looks to be going back to normal, with both old and new variants making their presence felt.

A new malware called EternalRocks was discovered in late May that uses not only EternalBlue and DoublePulsar—the two National Security Agency (NSA) exploits leaked by the ShadowBrokers hacking group and used by the notorious WannaCry ransomware—but five other

WannaCry was the biggest story of the week, as the ransomware used the EternalBlue exploit to infect thousands of systems around the world.

WannaCry’s impact may still be palpable among organizations around the world, but a “kill switch” will help them keep the ransomware at bay. Here’s what IT/system administrators and InfoSec professionals can do.

Here’s what you need to know about this ongoing threat and what you can do to protect against it.

This week’s roundup of latest ransomware sightings: a spate of ransomware as a service, one that exploits hacked remote desktops, and the return of notorious mobile ransomware, SLocker.