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The Hoboken, N.J-based IT consulting firm eMazzanti Technologies recently posted a countdown clock and tips to help businesses migrate from Windows Server 2003 to its website, as all support for the product, including patches and security updates, will soon be ending. After the July 14, 2015, Microsoft will no longer support Windows Server 2003, which creates potential security problems and immediate compliance issues for businesses. While there is no precise answer on the total number...

Spyware peddler Hacking Team is moaning that, since its internal source code was leaked online, its tools for infecting PCs with malware are now in the hands of "terrorists and extortionists." The Italian biz is not wrong ... in a way: the leaked code, which exploits vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash and the Windows operating system to hijack computers, has already made its way into criminals' toolkits. But one could argue that it would have been...

A recently uncovered operation has been mutating versions of ransomware to better avoid getting detected. As part of the campaign, which researchers from Cambridge-based Cybereason have dubbed Kofer, attackers are tweaking certain variables of ransomware like CryptoWall 3.0 and Crypt0L0cker to evade static signature or hash-based detection. While the malware variants are different, researchers have deduced that they’re being altered by one, singular group. As a whole the variables look similar. Researchers with the firm insist that...

A new family of Android malware adds insult to injury by making users pay for the data-stealing application. View full story

19,000 malicious emails have been sent in three days from spam servers worldwide, inviting users to download an archive containing a malicious .exe file. View full story

Researchers sifting through the confidential material stolen from spyware developer Hacking Team have already uncovered a weaponized exploit for a currently unpatched vulnerability in Adobe Flash, and they also may have uncovered attack code targeting Microsoft Windows and a hardened Linux module known as SELinux. View full story

More than 13,000 email addresses have been stolen from Edinburgh city council's database following a "malicious cyber attack". View full story

China's parliament has published a draft cybersecurity law that consolidates Beijing's control over data, with potentially significant consequences for internet service providers and multinational firms doing business in the country. View full story

New data from analytics firm G DATA is painting a disturbing picture. Its Q1 2015 Mobile Malware report suggests that nearly a half a million new malware strains were discovered in the first 3 months of this year. That’s a new case of Android malware every 18 seconds, or around 5,000 a day. View full story

Ad fraud malware is one of the more profitable specialties in the cybercrime world, and the attackers who use it often have to adapt their tactics in order to keep the money rolling in. One of the tactics that they have adopted in recent months is that of updating the version of Flash that’s installed on an infected machine. View full story