And they’re getting into the ransomware game too, warns Sophos Gootkit financial malware has been resurrected to fling ransomware payloads at unwitting marks, according to Sophos.… The Register – Security
Hackers are friends not foes, says Alyssa Miller in this opening argument for our latest debate Register debate Welcome to the latest Register Debate in which writers discuss technology topics, and you – the reader – choose the winning argument. The format is simple: a motion is proposed, the argument for the motion is published […]
Cybersecurity researchers today unwrapped a new campaign aimed at spying on vulnerable Tibetan communities globally by deploying a malicious Firefox extension on target systems. “Threat actors aligned with the Chinese Communist Party’s state interests delivered a customized malicious Mozilla Firefox browser extension that facilitated access and control of users’ Gmail accounts,” Proofpoint said The Hacker […]
Introduction Malicious documents often contain images of fake program prompts that are designed to convince a user to perform an action, such as disabling Microsoft Office’s read-only mode (Protected View) and enabling macros. Some forms of trickery are more effective than others, often involving an appeal to a sense of urgency or authority. We see […]