Displaying items by tag: Targeted attacks

A malware campaign that uses military-themed malicious Microsoft Office documents to spread a remote access trojan has been observed by Cisco's Talos Intelligence Group, with the group adding that the RAT was spread using customised Cobalt Strike beacons.

Windows ransomware known as Ryuk has been used in a number of well-targeted campaigns over the last two weeks, encrypting hundreds of PCs, storage and data centres in each infected firm, the security firm Check Point says.

Russia’s largest cybercriminal arrest has happened in part thanks to the enlightened efforts of security supremos, Kaspersky Lab, with the Lurk gang of 50 people arrested.

More information is emerging about the Crisis malware first spotted earlier this month. It's a nasty piece of spyware.

Australians' summer holiday habits are causing a delayed local rollout of Kaspersky's latest cloud security update.