Yesterday, Google announced on its Online Security Blog that it will now include Safe Browsing statistics in its Transparency Report. The Safe Browsing Malware Dashboard is fascinating. Here’s last week’s Malware Distribution by Autonomous System, using just the “Attack Sites” filter: The location of the attack sites by AS? • USA • Russia • Ukraine Hmm, the USA (San Diego) […]
The begining of spring seems to be an unsuccessful period of the year for cybercriminals in Eastern Europe. There is recent news referring to a neutralization of a group of hackers by joint cooperation between the Security Service of Ukraine with the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) on the web. These hackers […]
A day or two ago, our friends at Symantec released a blog post about the growing success of "ransomware". (They also have a whitepaper here, and a nice gallery of screenshots of several variations here.) Briefly, ransomware is malware that either locks up a computer, or encrypts data files, and then offers to restore access […]
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