Bill Brenner

A flaw in the library providing core functionality for several IM clients enables code execution attacks. Find out more on the libpurple flaw.

Read about Symantec DeepSight Intelligence and its ability to provide actionable, contextual data about today’s IT threats to organizations.

Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news

This BitPaymer malware variant uses tricks that you don’t usually see in ransomware – but it still scrambles your files in the end.

The Kedi Remote Access Trojan has some sneaky tricks up its sleeve – don’t get caught out by it

When you’re installing an Android app, pause before you approve one that asks for a lot of permissions – do you really need that app on your device?

Emotet arrives as a malicious email attachment and tries to steal your online banking credentials

Once installed it tries to steal banking and credit card details

At $400, the Philadelphia ransomware kit isn’t cheap – but crooks buying it will get a lot of bang for their buck, as we’ve discovered from digging in to how it works

We’ll be at Black Hat USA and BSidesLV with talks and a shirt giveaway – come and say hi; we’d love to see you

Our researchers spotted some app developers who were gaming the Google Play store – here’s what they uncovered in their investigation

It’s been 24 hours since the outbreak first hit: here’s what we know now about how Petya behaves

What we know so far about the Petya ransomware outbreak

SophosLabs looked at the most prolific ransomware variants. And, we offer you the tools to better defend against them.

You can ‘force stop’ but the ads will just keep popping back up again

Malware-laced PowerPoint files are nothing new – but several recent spam campaigns have added a new twist.

Many security vendors already use machine learning. So, what makes our deep learning approach different and how much better does it perform?

SophosLabs gets under the skin of the bad guys’ latest attempt to drop ransomware on to your PCs

Both games look harmless enough, but they contain a payload that ensures you’ll be hammered with spam

Under the General Data Protection Regulation’s Right to Explanation a user can ask for an explanation about an algorithmic decision made about them – but with it comes positives and neg…