The city of Riviera Beach, Florida is the latest high-profile victim of a ransomware attack.Recently, the city council voted to pay more than $600,000 to a hacking group to regain access to data that had been locked and encrypted via ransomware nearly a month ago. ...
Researchers at the cybersecurity firm Anomali have discovered a completely new type of malware that’s disturbing on several levels.Worse is the fact that the researchers aren’t quite sure what it does.The new strain has been dubbed ‘IPStorm’ by...
Hackers are always on the lookout for new ways to freshen up time-tested techniques. Where time-tested techniques are concerned, few are older than the humble phishing email.In one form or another, it seeks to trick an unsuspecting user to innocently hand over...
When you visit a website or receive any notifications to download or update Adobe Flash Player you need to be extremely careful since Adobe itself is ending development and distribution of Flash Player by the end of 2020.When you receive a popup window or a website...
If you’re not familiar with the term, ‘Steganography’ is the term used to describe the act of hiding code in images and video. It’s a creative strategy that allows hackers to slip past even the most robust defenses. Recently, researchers at...
Bad news for Android users. Recently, Google discovered that more than two hundred apps on the Play Store had been infected with the ‘BeiTaAd’ plugin. This plugin is the latest in a large and growing collection of advertising libraries that have been...
