Botnet Tweeting, Spamming Porn Shut Down
Researchers discovered an active Twitter botnet made up of 38,000 bots, generating 8.5 million tweets and netting over 30 million clicks from its victims.
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Tom Spring is Editor-in-Chief of Threatpost. For the past two decades he has worked at a number of national publications in the roles of executive editor, technical editor and investigative reporter.
Free Certs Come With a Cost
Leading certificate authority Let’s Encrypt is facing criticism that its rapid growth and eagerness to encrypt internet communications is happening at a cost.
NemucodAES Ransomware, Kovter Click-Fraud Malware Spreading in Same Campaigns
Researchers have spotted malicious email campaigns using Zip archives to spread NemucodAES ransomware and the Kovter click-fraud Trojan, simultaneously distributing both pieces of malware.
An analysis of Amazon Web Services storage containers reveals troubling trend of misconfigured S3 buckets that leak data.
Botnets distributing FlokiBot point-of-sale malware are back in business spewing a new malware dubbed LockPoS.
Microsoft releases a total of 57 security patches, part of its July Patch Tuesday, with 20 rated critical.
Avanti Markets notified customers of a possible breach of personal and payment card data as well as biometric user information that likely occurred July 4.
Adversaries are using the SMB communications channel to launch template injection attacks against the energy sector, including nuclear facilities.
Personal data of 3 million wrestling fans were left exposed on a database owned by World Wrestling Entertainment.
The key to decrypt the original Petya ransomware has been reportedly released by the ransomware’s author.
