According to a report published by Network security company, SonicWall, there was a decline in the Malware attacks in 2016, however at the same time Ransomware attacks multiplied by hundreds. Statistics reveal that unique malware samples collected fell to 60 million as compared with 64 …
The authors of the XiaoBa ransomware have retooled their malware’s code into a cryptocurrency miner (coinminer). Unfortunately, despite not encrypting files anymore, the XiaoBa coinminer still destroys users’ data thanks to a series of bugs that primarily corrupt a user’s executable files. History of the XiaoBa …
The Colorado Department of Transportation (DOT) has shut down over 2,000 computers after some systems got infected with the SamSam ransomware on Wednesday, February 21. The agency’s IT staff is working with its antivirus provider McAfee to remediate affected workstations and safeguard other endpoints before before …
