Adwind RAT Resurfaces, Targeting Danish Companies
The remote access Trojan Adwind has resurfaced and as of last weekend, is being used in spam emails targeting Danish companies, researchers claim.
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Chinese Ad Firm Raking in $300K a Month Through Adfraud, Android Malware
The same group of cybercriminals behind YiSpecter, a strain of iOS malware uncovered last year, are also behind a new type of Android malware, HummingBad.
Siemens Patches Password Reconstruction Vulnerability in SICAM PAS
The Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) warned users several builds of energy automation software this week.
A breach at Massachusetts General Hospital has potentially compromised the information of roughly 4,300 dental patients, the hospital warned Wednesday.
Foxit patched a dozen vulnerabilities in its PDF reader software this week, more than half of which could be used to directly execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of the product.
The FTC closes roughly 70 percent of the investigations it opens and is weighing how to better handle PCI-DSS and other standards, an agency official said this week.
A botnet comprised entirely of closed circuit TV devices used a barrage of HTTP requests to knock a small jewelry store offline for days.
The hacker selling upwards to 655,000 healthcare records on the dark web obtained them after exploiting a vulnerability in how companies implement RDP.
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook recap the news of the week, including a Bitcoin phishing campaign, the Kaspersky Lab ransomware report, misconfigured email servers, and a decline in Angler exploit kit traffic.
A mobile advertising company that settled charges with the Federal Trade Commission this week will pay nearly $1M after it was determined the company tracked customers – including children – without their consent.
