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Studies have found that Intel CPUs (Central Processing Unit) containing a debugging interface is accessible via USB 3.0 allowing the attacker to gain full control of the machine.

A new technique known as AV Gate has been discovered that allows a physical user to restore quarantined files and move them to privileged areas. This technique can be used without administrator rights and can be used for privilege escalation.

A WordPress plugin called Display Widgets has been used to install a backdoor on WordPress websites. The backdoor code was found between Display Widgets version 2.6.1 (released June 30) and version 2.6.3 (released September 2).

A new variant of the Petya ransomware has been discovered.

BankBot is an Android malware family which keeps making its way into the official Google Play store despite Google's efforts to remove it. The malware has been active since the beginning of the year.

Betabot (also known as Neurevt) is a botnet that originated as a banking trojan /password stealer and evolved over time with new functionality. Infected hosts are leveraged to distribute malware.

Version 9 of the BIND DNS platform which uses both DNS64 and RPZ are susceptible to denial of service (DoS) attacks. When the vulnerability is exploited, a remote attacker may cause the ‘named’ process to terminate.

tPaymer, also known as WPEncrypt, is a relatively new ransomware variant that first appeared in mid-2017.

Black Friday (last Friday of November) and Cyber Monday (the following Monday) are two of the biggest online shopping days of the year, with both posing a possible risk of cyber-attacks and disruption aimed at consumers.

Blackmoon, also known as Banbra and KRBanker is a banking trojan which has recently started to gain traction in the wider threat landscape.