Godless Malware Found in Play Store Roots Most Android Phones
Researchers have discovered a new class of mobile malware that has made its way into the Google Play store and is capable of completely compromising more than 90 percent of existing Android phones. The malware, which researchers at Trend Micro are calling Godless, contains a number of exploits for known Android vulnerabilities, some of which […]
Apple Exposes iOS’s Unencrypted Core
The beta of iOS 10, released earlier this week, contains some interesting security upgrades and changes, but perhaps the most surprising feature of the software is its unencrypted kernel. That change is a big one for Apple, and security researchers say it could have some interesting effects in the future. In past versions of iOS, […]
Crypto Ransomware Attacks Jump Nearly 500%
There appears to be no end in sight to the ransomware epidemic. New stats released by security researchers at Kaspersky Lab show that the number of users who came across crypto ransomware in the last year increased by more than 500 percent over the previous year. The variety and volume of ransomware being deployed by […]
BlackBerry Messenger Decryption Tactic Could Be Revealed
A decision in a years-old Canadian murder case that involved the police intercepting and decrypting more than a million encrypted BBM messages could reveal the technique that law enforcement used to get those encrypted messages. The case centers on a murder in Montreal several years ago of an alleged Mafia member. During the investigation, the […]
Researchers Release Master Decryption Tool for TeslaCrypt
The attackers behind the TeslaCrypt ransomware pulled up stakes and released the master decryption key for their creations, and now security researchers with Cisco’s TALOS team have published a tool that will decrypt files encrypted with any version of TeslaCrypt. The TeslaCrypt ransomware isn’t the most well-known or the nastiest of the variants that have […]
Canadian University Pays $15K in Ransomware Attack
A ransomware attack has cost a university in Canada more than $15,000, after the school’s network was compromised and brought to a near standstill. The University of Calgary said it was hit by the ransomware attack about 10 days ago and many portions of the college’s network were affected. The IT department has been working […]
Angler Exploit Kit EMET Bypass Leads to TeslaCrypt Ransomware
Microsoft has built a number of technical defenses against browser-based exploits in the last decade or so, including a specialized toolkit called EMET that’s designed to defeat advanced exploits. Attackers have now created a version of the notorious Angler exploit kit that can bypass EMET entirely and then install the nasty TeslaCrypt ransomware. This advance […]
Ransomware is Dope
Credit where credit is due: Ransomware is kind of brilliant. From a defender’s perspective, it is perhaps the most difficult threat to deal with in the last five or 10 years. It locks up your data, makes it inaccessible and unrecoverable (without backups), and presents you with, at most, two options: Don’t pay the ransom and […]
Life in the Ransomware Underweb
The business of ransomware is booming, and some of the criminals running these operations have so much work and money on their hands that they’re building out affiliate networks to help them handle it all. In their efforts to extort as many victims as possible with their malware, ransomware authors have been spreading their creations in […]