RANSOMWARE THREAT IS BACK! After an absence of 2 months, the CryptoWall ransomware threat is back! CryptoWall 3.0 started appearing on Monday 1-12-15 and is a sophisticated ransomware threat program that encrypts the victims' files making them unusable and non-recoverable. Users are instructed to pay the equivalent of US$500 in...
New Variety of Malware Dubbed Ransomware Attempts to Extort Money from Unwary Internet Users
Whatever you do, don't follow the payment instructions for any ransomware! The Internet Crime Complaint Center (which is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National White Collar Crime Center) has recently been made aware of a new variety of malware (MALicous softWARE) used to deliver ransomware...
Up to Five Million Web Sites Serving Up Malware.
As many as five million Web sites hosted by Network Solutions have been serving up malware, probably for several months. "This is one of the biggest infections for drive-by download attacks that I've seen," said Wayne Huang, co-founder and CTO of Santa Clara, Calif.-based Armorize Technologies, a Web application security...