- By Gabriela Vatu
- June 7th, 2017
Fancy Bear Hackers Target Montenegro As Country Joins NATO
Ahead of Montenegro's integration into NATO, hackers targeted the country's government with detailed attack
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- October 30th, 2016
Serial Spammer Pleads Guilty, Faces Up to Ten Years in Jail
Livingstone faces up to ten years in prison
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- October 20th, 2016
Locky Spam Numbers Go Down as Ransomware Switches to LNK Files
Locky group changes spam & infection technique
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- October 20th, 2016
Spambot Checks Spam Blacklists for the Victim's IP to Avoid Wasting Its Time
Sarvdap spambot used in Andromeda spam campaigns
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- October 16th, 2016
Locky Ransomware Accounted for 97 Percent of All Malicious Email Attachments
Exploit kit activity slows down dramatically
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 29th, 2016
Tofsee Botnet Comes Back to Life with Massive Spam Floods
Tofsee activity spiked in September 2016
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 27th, 2016
Spamhaus Warns of a Rise in IPv4 Network Hijacks
Spammers behind most of today's network hijacking events
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 26th, 2016
Dev Trolled Spammers for Two Years with Bot That Sent Random Email Replies
Some spammers kept answering for days in a row
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 18th, 2016
Email Bomb Attack Hits 100+ Government Accounts
Spammers are developing a new service, according to Spamhaus
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 28th, 2016
Kelihos Botnet Triples Its Size in Just 24 Hours
Kelihos starts delivering ransomware and banking trojans
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 24th, 2016
Spam Flood Delivers New and Improved GozNym Banking Trojan
New trojan version targets 13 German banks
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 22nd, 2016
Smishing Campaign Uses Twilio to Deliver DroidJack Malware
Same number used earlier to deliver spam with PayPal lures
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 20th, 2016
Dridex Returns with New Spam Campaign After Two-Month Hiatus
Dridex now focuses on high-value targets
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 18th, 2016
Locky Ransomware Spam Campaigns Switch to Macro-Based Distribution
Dridex spam distribution stops altogether
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 28th, 2016
Locky Ransomware Was Top Malware Threat for Q2 2016
Q2 quieter than Q1 thanks to Angler and Nuclear shutdowns
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 14th, 2016
Huge Spam Wave Drops Locky Variant That Can Work Without an Internet Connection
New Locky variant uses a weaker encryption method
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 22nd, 2016
Necurs Botnet Comes Back to Life After Three-Week Hiatus
World's largest spam offender comes back to life