Towards the end of August 2018, FireEye identified a new exploit kit (EK) that was being served up as part of a malvertising campaign affecting users in Japan, Korea, the Middle East, Southern Europe, ...

When we talk to people whose computers have been infected, they often ask how it happened. In a growing number of cases, they have been doing nothing more than reading a news website or browsing for ...

90% of ransomware incidents exploit firewalls – and the fastest observed ransomware case took three hours from breach to encryption. Most widely detected CVE vulnerability dates from 2013 – 11% of ...

A joint investigation by the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center and Microsoft Security Response Center found that a zero-day vulnerability in the Windows Common Log File System had been exploited by ...

Threat actors linked to lesser-known ransomware and malware projects now use AI tools as lures to infect unsuspecting victims with malicious payloads. This development follows a trend that has been ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Admit it: the first thing you think of when ransomware is ...

Thousands of iPhones were compromised using the Coruna exploit kit, which chained 23 iOS vulnerabilities into advanced attacks used for espionage and cybercrime. An iOS exploit framework has revealed ...

The tool the ransomware uses to get inside computers is called Eternal Blue, and it's more of an exploit than a tool. Leaked ...

In late May 2023, a critical flaw in the MOVEit file-transfer platform was publicly disclosed. Within hours, the Cl0p ...