Anyone Can Buy Popular Android Ransomware Kits Off the Dark Web
Our data is valuable; our secret that we hide within this data, are even more so. With that in mind, it should be no surprise that the dark web has featured in the past year [...]
Malware
Malware Is Never Fun, But This One Can Physically Destroy Your Phone
Most malware in the wild will try to do you harm in one way or another, but most often than not that involves accessing your information. There’s also another type of [...]
Peter Kosinar, ESET: Fight for Cybersecurity Will Come Down to “Whose AI Is Better?” – Interview
During the ITBN conference in Budapest, I had the chance of meeting numerous interesting people, experts in their domain, including ESET’s Senior Virus Researcher [...]
Europol Says Ransomware Eclipsed Most Other Cyber Threats
Europol, the police agency of the European Union, is handing out a warning against the threat posed by ransomware. The agency published an 80-page report discussing numerous [...]
Largest Spambot Discovered Holds 711M Email Addresses
The world’s largest spambot dump has been uncovered, holding some 711 million email accounts. Previously, the largest such trove of data came from the River City Media [...]
New Spyware Family Threatens Android Users
Android users have been the target of a threat actor who has created more than 4,000 spyware apps in the past six months. At least three of these apps have made their way [...]
Cyberattacks and Ransomware Damage Costs to Rise to Billions of Dollars
The number of ransomware attacks has grown over the past few years with an incredible speed with damage costs for 2017 being predicted to exceed $5 billion, up from just a [...]
Destructive Malware NotPetya and WannaCry Mark Beginning of Dark Cyber Future
NotPetya wreaked havoc around the world and it wasn’t even for monetary-purposes The latest global cyber attack with the NotPetya ransomware is testament to the fact [...]
Minecraft link to net’s biggest botnet
Security blogger Brian Krebs has spent months investigating the attack which knocked his blog offline. He claims that the origins of the Mirai botnet can be traced back to [...]
Google reveals how it flagged 25,000 Android apps for malware
Without stirring up an annoying Android vs iOS debate, it’s a fact that Android plays host to more malware than iOS due, in part, to its open ecosystem. Luckily, Google [...]
The Cyber-Secret Futurist 