Compromised WordPress, Joomla sites used to spread Shade ransomware
Cyber attackers have compromised hundreds of CMS sites running WordPress or Joomla to serve up Shade ransomware and phishing pages in the wild.
Zscaler
Cobian RAT backdoor threat
The Zscaler ThreatLabZ research team has spotted a new remote access Trojan (RAT) family called Cobian RAT that contains a backdoor module, which retrieves command and control (C&C) information from a predetermined URL that is controlled by the original author.