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Researchers from security firms McAfee & FireEye warned that the malicious Word documents are being attached to e-mails.
Reports: Ars Technica, SC Magazine, IT News, iTWire
Issued twice per year, the Nokia Threat Intelligence Report examines general trends & statistics for infections in devices connected through mobile & fixed networks around the world.
Malwarebytes just introduced a new version of its award winning malware detection & protection software that promises to provide smarter detection, & to be 4x faster than previous versions, not to speak of providing specialized ransomware protection.
Much of the Internet requests was stopped by a flood of malicious requests from tens of millions of IP addresses disrupting the system.
Reports: Live Science, Inverse, Reuters, Heavy.com
Customers were targeted by hackers over the weekend in the 1st campaign against Macintosh computers using ‘ransomware’. The latter is 1 of the fastest-growing types of cyber threats, encrypts data on infected machines, then typically asks users to pay ransom in hard-to-trace digital currencies to get an electronic key so they can retrieve their data.
Reports: Apple Insider, 9 to 5 Mac, Computer World, International Business Times UK
This one refuses to go away. After it was 1st noticed in Sept last year, Brain Test malware has reared its head again. This time, Google has already deleted over a dozen Brain Test infected apps from its Google Play Store as a result of an investigation by cybersecurity company Lookout.
Reports: ZDNet, Threatpost, SC Magazine